forum Favorite authors

Started July 16, 2018 by @Sugar-Lover

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Who are your favorite authors and why?

J.R.R. TOLKIEN. The world building, characters, and plots are all nearly flawless. Literally his only flaw is his inability to create believable female characters w/ their own agendas, otherwise, perfection.
C. S. Lewis. Made me believe in fairy tales, at least for a while. I related (and still relate) to Lucy soooo much.
Ernest Hemingway. The way he phrases things is so poetic and sad and good. Also, the narrative structure is nice. Very stream of consciousness.
John Steinbeck. For roughly the same reasons as Hemingway –great.
F. Scott Fitzgerald. I'm seeing a trend all of a sudden… 1920s depressed alcoholic writers for the win, I guess.
Douglas Adams. His descriptions, humor, and wit is outmatched.
Jane Austen. The only romance novels I'll actually read.
Many more… but these are the ones I can think of right now.

J.K. Rowling: Worldbuilding, and she was good at making the series get more mature with age while staying child friendly. In that vein, making the only book series I can think of that both kids and adults love and has had massive success from such books.
Joan Bauer: Good at making me care about characters even if they're only around for one book. She's also good at presenting mature topics like homelessness (Almost Home), human trafficking (Tell Me), and domestic abuse (Close to Famous) in a way that is compelling and doesn't beat around the bush but isn't extremely graphic.
Jennifer L. Holm: She writes amazing historical fiction that takes place in eras that are fairly common, but never explored in the way she does, such as how Italians were treated post WW2 and what it was like to live in the Florida Keys during the Great Depression. Also I love her characters. Even minor characters by her are interesting, like Ira and Penny's many uncles.
Marrissa Meyer: Writer of my favorite teen fiction series, a brilliant retelling of fairytales with strong male and female characters!
Shakespeare: Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Much Ado About Nothing are some of my favorites!
Probably more I'm forgetting, but yeah!

J.R.R. TOLKIEN. The world building, characters, and plots are all nearly flawless. Literally his only flaw is his inability to create believable female characters w/ their own agendas, otherwise, perfection.

As much as my heart desperately wants to believe Tolkien is perfect, unfortunately THIS. ^^^ But I can overlook it in the awesomeness of everything else.

Eowyn was SOOOO close to being that awesome female character we needed, but the way her story ended kinda ruined her. She had to sacrifice being a warrior for being a wife and being "womanly" which is just…sad.

Kiera Cass, because she writes so beautifully. She’s so perfect at describing emotions and conflicted thoughts, which is why I find her romance novels so enjoyable. She really captivates love in a way I find no other authors do.
Joanne Rowling, because of her amazing world building and her layered, complicated plots that make her stories so interesting to read.
S.E. Hinton, because she’s great at putting teenage thoughts and emotions into words. I can really understand what her characters feel.
John Green, because you can just tell that he puts so much thought into his writing, and you can tell that he’s smart. He puts out lots of ideas and leaves you to think about them. I especially like The Fault In Our Stars, just because he shows that teenagers are smarter and more thoughtful than they’re credited for.
And, of course, Rick Riordan, for his hilarious dialogue!

YES!! I didn't put S.E. Hinton because I've only read one of her books (The Outsiders), but I loved it and it helped me connect to one of my now closest friends.

@jynandor
I know!!! I've read The Outsiders a million times over and I just love it so much!!! And that's really cool that it helped you connect with someone. Outsiders for life!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah she's a year younger than me and we were talking about the book and just connected. Now I call her Ponyboy and she calls me Sodapop and she invited me to her birthday party!!

DJ MacHale- Probably the best compliment that you can say to me as a writer is "This reminds of me something that DJ MacHale would write" because I seriously love his stuff. Not to be cliche, but his books are freaking roller coasters and are just so gripping and intense.

Paul Stewart- admittedly, I've only read one of his series (but there's 10 books in that series so) but it's stuck with me for such a long time. His world building is incredible, and so different from other fantasy series that I've read. I may or may not have used a quote from one of his books as my yearbook quote when I graduated high school.

Becky Albertalli- I only started reading her stuff kinda recently, and normally I'm not into realistic fiction. But I've read two of her books and finished them in 3 days and 8 days respectively and very rarely do I finish a book in less than a month, so that's all I'm going to say about that.

J.R.R. Tolkien - for the beautiful world he built with a rich history, languages and how it is all so sad and beautiful and the sheer amount of detail he put into it to make it believable (as to the female character thing, I think Idril is OK, like, not warrior maiden, but strong in her own way)
J.K. Rowling - the impressive amount of worldbuilding and making it so realistic, one of these books that are so good for kids and adults at the same time
Rick Riordan - beautiful way of intertwining ancient mythology with the modern world. And they are just so funny without a single swear word