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re: Who are your five favorite writers off the top of your head?

Posted on 8/27/16 at 5:20 pm to
Posted by Topisawtiger
Mississippi
Member since Oct 2012
3493 posts
Posted on 8/27/16 at 5:20 pm to
Dean Koontz
Clive Cussler
James Rollins
Frank Herbert
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Posted by Lakeboy7
New Orleans
Member since Jul 2011
23965 posts
Posted on 8/27/16 at 5:25 pm to
These popped into my head first:

James Jones
Robert Heinlein
Vonnegut
Twain

Americas greatest treasure: Charles Portis
Posted by PairofDucks
Member since Jul 2016
4992 posts
Posted on 8/27/16 at 5:32 pm to
I only have one that nobody has already mentioned.

Richard Russo.

Many, many thanks to everyone else--great inputs. I updated my own list.
Posted by Too Soon625
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2014
338 posts
Posted on 8/27/16 at 5:36 pm to
P.G. Wodehouse
Posted by DonChowder
Sonoma County
Member since Dec 2012
9249 posts
Posted on 8/27/16 at 5:42 pm to
Cormac Mccarthy
Mark kurlansky
Ann rand
Roald Dahl
Me.
Posted by Lakeboy7
New Orleans
Member since Jul 2011
23965 posts
Posted on 8/27/16 at 5:44 pm to
quote:

Clive Cussler



Not in my top 5, however, I read the shite out of some Dirk Pitt novels!
Posted by DonChowder
Sonoma County
Member since Dec 2012
9249 posts
Posted on 8/27/16 at 5:48 pm to
Gotta add Shel Silverstein.
Posted by Peepdip
Member since Aug 2016
4946 posts
Posted on 8/28/16 at 12:35 am to
Have we really gone 3 pages without mentioning Ray Bradbury??

Anyways, my top 5 would be

Bradbury
Richard Matheson
Philip K Dick
Neil Gaiman
Stephen King

Runner ups-

Anthony Burgess
Ken Kesey
Issac Asimov
Terry Pratchett
Haruki Murakami
Raymond Carver
Harlan Ellison
Roger Zelazny
Franz Kafka
Cormac Mccarthy

Posted by Sellecks Moustache
NC
Member since Jun 2014
5994 posts
Posted on 8/28/16 at 12:39 am to
Dick
McCarthy
Tolkien
Dostoyevsky
Pratchett
Posted by Sellecks Moustache
NC
Member since Jun 2014
5994 posts
Posted on 8/28/16 at 12:40 am to
quote:

Peepdip

GOAT first post.
Posted by TigerintheNO
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2004
41208 posts
Posted on 8/28/16 at 1:09 am to
My favorite 5 are-


Mark Twain
William Shakespeare
George R Martin
Saint John (The Book of Revelations is a good read)
John Grisham
Posted by TheFonz
Somewhere in Louisiana
Member since Jul 2016
20407 posts
Posted on 8/28/16 at 1:09 am to

Little Golden Books
Posted by 911Moto
Member since Sep 2013
5491 posts
Posted on 8/28/16 at 6:20 am to
Michael Crichton
Eric Flint
Mark Twain
Anne Rice
Stephen King

Honorable Mention: Stephenie Meyer, writer of the greatest love story in modern times
This post was edited on 8/28/16 at 6:27 am
Posted by StringedInstruments
Member since Oct 2013
18421 posts
Posted on 8/28/16 at 6:31 am to
McCarthy
Rowling
Tolkien
Adams
Bierce
Posted by tigerpawl
Can't get there from here.
Member since Dec 2003
22320 posts
Posted on 8/28/16 at 6:54 am to
Ralph Waldo Emerson
C.S. Lewis
Pat Conroy
Ayn Rand
T.S.Eliot
Posted by Corch Urban Myers
Columbus, OH
Member since Jul 2009
5993 posts
Posted on 8/28/16 at 7:03 am to
Grisham
Rice
Koontz
King
A. Nonymous
Posted by OhFace55
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2007
7040 posts
Posted on 8/28/16 at 7:12 am to
Douglas Adams
Tolkien
Martin
Timothy Zahn (best star wars write by far)
Terry goodkind
Posted by Rockbrc
Attic
Member since Nov 2015
7926 posts
Posted on 8/28/16 at 7:17 am to
Shakespeare
William Faulkner
Mark Twain
John Barth
Thomas B. Costain
Posted by flvelo12
Palm Harbor, Florida
Member since Jan 2012
3319 posts
Posted on 8/28/16 at 7:28 am to
Willie Morris
Paul Auster
Richard Russo
Pete Dexter
Joseph Wambaugh
Posted by lsufan9193969700
3 miles from B.R.
Member since Sep 2003
55123 posts
Posted on 8/28/16 at 7:33 am to
In no particular order...

Shakespeare
John Steinbeck
E. A. Poe
Mark Helprin
Charles Dickins
This post was edited on 8/28/16 at 7:34 am
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