Best writer you’ve ever read

[Son of Stan]

I'm going to have to be a bore and say Shakespeare, plays and sonnets especially, which I still read, and which will always have the power to move me.

Honourable mention to T S Eliot and Jane Austen.

 

[Hammer]

No I haven't. Thank you for the recommendation

Guns, Germs and Steel is the best place to start.

 

[Colbert]

Cormac McCarthy

 

[ErichZann]

Stephen King, master of the macabre

Rereading IT at the moment.....brilliant.

 

[MackemBob]

It's not an amp it's a TB303.

A TB303?

A @tunstall birdman 303: an exotic love poetry robot sent from the future? Explains a lot.

 

[mad cyril]

Mario Puzo

 

[Dagzd1973]

Vladimir Nabokov.

 

[Thackeray]

An original?

Yessum.

 

[sedling]

Robert Louis Stevenson

 

[cluffy]

Milan Kundera

 

[tunstall birdman]

A TB303?

A @tunstall birdman 303: an exotic love poetry robot sent from the future? Explains a lot.

 

[Thackeray]

Still no getting off the fence from @janiep, I bet it's some poncey chicklit like Jane Austen or Donna Tartt.

 

[MonkeyLove]

Mr J R Hartley

 

[lenshack]

Lee Child

 

[taipeisafc]

John Irving with honorable mentions for iain banks and Ian rankin

 

[tonyfromalnwick]

Charles Dickens or Arthur C Clarke.

 

[Big Sharp Teeth]

I like simple but engrossing writing so I’m going to say Paul Brickhill. He wrote ‘The Great Escape’ and ‘The Dambusters’. Great films, but far, far better books. He also wrote ‘Reach for the Sky’ with Douglas Bader. I loved reading all of them.

 

[mickyw]

I've got a few favourite authors but I would say my favourites are Stephen King and Irvine Welsh

 

[tunstall birdman]

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[The Exile]

Depends what mood I'm in tbh. It's a bit like films, sometimes you want something to think about, other times you want big daft explosions.

Bill Bryson
Phillip K Dick
Anthony Beevor
Max Hastings

I can really enjoy a Dan Brooooooon book as well, because I take things for what they are - it's not pretending it's anything but holiday reading.

I do enjoy a 99p kindle gamble as well. Found loads of very good stuff.