Best writer you’ve ever read

[Deleted member 5265]

not best book, best writer.

Haway.

 

[myleftfoot1978]

The one with the funny eye from the chronicle I think it is, always a easy and enjoyable read

 

[squashjoe]

Courtney Connell.

 

[Junior Birdman]

For thriller stuff, can't go wrong with Jeff Abbott.

 

[Gala]

Mark Twain.

 

[ErichZann]

Lovecraft

 

[myleftfoot1978]

Don’t read to much myself but when I was younger and away on tours I got into reading James Patterson books, saw me through a lot of boring nights

 

[SproutMackem]

Kurt Vonnegut.

 

[chunkyshanhawk53]

Hemmingway was a brilliant storyteller

Orwell was a genius

 

[Butcher's Coat]

Tom Sharpe

 

[alicante mackem]

Steinbeck

 

[Rob the Ref]

Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray impressed me

 

[Discopants91]

Leo Tolstoy or Steve Bruce.

 

[Rainhill]

My favourite writers aren't always the "best".

 

[maygo]

Stephen King, master of the macabre

 

[MackemBob]

Hans Fallada. Great descriptive pieces.

 

[Ch1982]

Hilary Mantel.

 

[Thackeray]

Pynchon (obv), Vonnegut, Foster-Wallace, Donald Barthelme, John Barth.

Pynchon if I have to choose one.

Where's your nailing of colours to masts @janiep ?

 

[RestlessNatives]

I reserve the right to change my mind almost immediately but first name that springs to mind is Iain Banks. Imaginative, funny, complex characterisation, detailed believable worlds created by him and his books are all well paced with very little redundancy. On the whole he was very consistent albeit I'm not a fan of his sci fi.

 

[Latka Gravas]

@foggy by a long way