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I've been a huge fan of Anne Rice for many, many years, even under her other pseudonyms; Anne Rampling and that other one I can never spell / remember XD (Anne Roquelaure) - I adore her Vampire Chronicles, but I have to say Exit To Eden was a good book too (non-vamp) a bit... risque, but then it stays with you, and I simply love her ability to do that; taking her love of history and horror and sexuality and human empathy and roll it all into worlds and characters that are almost real. In my humble opinion she's simply a living treasure.

Also, as those around me know, I've been reading up a lot over the years on The Holocaust (before you ask, no I am not, and no one anywhere I'm pretty sure in my family tree at all is Jewish) but the author that really personifies the human face of this tragedy is a man named Prof. Elie Wiesel. His book 'Night', though small, is so powerful you simply cannot put it down or read it just once. I recommend it to everyone.
Also on the subject, my mother gave me a copy of a book she had when she was about my age, a book named 'Holocaust' which is a work of fiction by an author named Gerald Green (It was later made into a TV movie that surprisingly, for the most part, does it justice, staring James Woods and Meryl Streep). Now THAT book still hanuts me, it reads like a real life account, from both sides of the war on Jews. My god, an awesome book. Another must read.

Of course I also love Stephen King, Dean Koontz, James Herbert for their horror and Koontz especially for his fascination with themes of the supernatural (another pet love of mine, not just the TV show, the actual topic itself) but over recent years haven't caught up with them as much as I should have. Their early works were masterpieces though, many anyway. There's probably more but at least for stand-outs, at the forefront of my mind, they all top the list. About that order too ;)

Heartless wrote:

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Hmm out of the well known authors (non-local) Ive read something by, I like Milan Kundera, Tolkien, Huxley, Salinger, Mikael Niemi, Daniel Kehlmann, Sven Hassel, Jane Austen. None of those can constitue as my favorite though...
has anyone hear heard of Laxness?

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No actually, never have. Educate me :)

^I looked up Halldór Laxness, from the wiki article he seemed to be a very accomplished writer.

i forgot to mention Kathy Reichs, shes the author of the Bones series of books. It's no suprise really since i like the TV Show and shes a producer for that, though the Dr. Temperance Brennan Character is completely different in the book to the show.

maybe Roald Dahl. E.G Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

I have two favorite authors.
Doulgas Coupland. His books are consistantly funny espeically JPod which I could read a billion times over.
Stephen Ambrose. His retelling of World War II are the most epic reads ever. I love it, especially DDay.

I can see why they would appeal to older people... I'm just passionate about studying WWII so it's a big deal for me that he compiles such great books.

J K Rowling is a good author (in my opinion) however the story of Harry Potter isn't any good for my tastes. She should write a book about the first world war... lol

charles de lint (fantasy/fiction writer )

books by him i like are

The Blue Girl

The harp and the grey rose

Wolf moon

I also like Alice hoffman

books by her i like are

Green angel

^ i've only read one book by her ^

Ted dekker i've read by him

Obessed and i am working on the Circle trilogy