Who's your favorite novel author?

I like reading novels very much, especially about love. There has many novel writers in China, but my favorite one is Mark Twain, his words are so humorous.

I like the entire LOTR series but I'd have to say that The Hobbit is my favorite from there. It seems more playful and less serious than the rest of the series. (Unlike The Stand movie, I was really impressed with the movies done on these books.) I think that Tolkien wrote The Hobbit as a children's story in the first place but now it acts as an introduction to the main trilogy of LOTR. I agree as well, that many movie versions of books are disapointing. However, it's not usually possible for book to be translated directly into a workable screenplay, on order to make it work as a screen play, there usually has to be some sort of editing and reinterpretation of the book plot. There are so many good books I wouldn't know where to start but those are two that everyone should read in their lifetime.

I don't generally read all the books by one author, I go more for specific genres. However, I really love reading all the books by Jodi Picoult. I haven't read all of them yet, but I'd like to.

My four favorite novels that I've read over the last five years are: THE SECRET HISTORY by Donna Tart, THEM by Nathan McCall, THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES by Sue Monk Kidd and DRIFTLESS by David Rhodes. All four of these books were page turners for me but they were also what I would call "literaary" as opposed to run of the mill popular fiction. I read a lot but these books were all, in my opinion, head and shoulders above the norm.

My favourite author definitely has to be Stephen King. Ok, he's a horror writer but I think that his books are very good and I have read some of them over and over. He always seems to be able to take me to different places and I like that about a book. I'm not sure of the author but I also love those family sagas, novels that really get into the world of family. I guess I love these so much as I don't have a family of my own and I like to share some of those loving experiences! I do like Dean Koontz as well, he's a good author. Andrew

V.C. Andrews (who was a woman, by the way) was one of my favorite authors several years ago! I read all of the books that were published by her at that time. I wasnt a fan of some of the newer books that are attributed to her. She had started some, but had never finished them. Someone else finished them and they were published. I highly recommend reading the rest of the Flowers in the Attic series. That was my favorite, even if it was a bit twisted! One of my current favorite authors is Terry Goodkind. I am currently in the middle of the Sword of Truth series. The books are fairly long (minimum 600 pages each) and there are a lot of them (I am on the 8th book). I love reading them and cant put them down! The characters really pull you in. There is also a lot of good advice for life within the books.

I like reading the classics. I would say Charles Dickons is my favorite. I used to read many of his novels.