I'll be honest, I've only read one of his books, however my friend did recommend a book of his to me too. I really like his writing style though, and really couldn't put it down.

I'll have to check those books out . Thanks!

I think I read a Zorro book by Isabel Allende once. it was pretty good

I haven't read a book of my own volition for such a long time, I've completely forgotten what my favourites were. Many of the books mentioned I loved at one point.. Feist's Magician series was a major favourite of mine when I was about 16.. I pick it up now and I can't get through a chapter. I've spent the last 3 years doing nothing but literature at university.. and the end result is 1) I simply don't know who my favourite writers are.. 2) If I was to try to list them, I'd look like a pretentious wanker. So I won't.

Stephen King is nice, but he gets a bit wierd when he teams up with Peter Straub

Dean Koontz is my personal favorite. I'll never forget the first book of his that I read, and still my favorite, "Phantoms"

I don't have a favorite book per se, but My two favorite short stories are 'The Running Man' and 'The Long Walk' by Stephen king (as Richard Bachman)

I think 'The long Walk' was just plain messed up...
I also didn't like 'The Stand' as well as a book, the mini series was pretty cool in my opinion was much better...

I liked the 'Hithchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' books as well, regardless of how much English humor was lost on me (I only found out the real reason Ford Prefect was named such was after reading the intro thingy...)

Oh, And I also like 'Eyes of the Dragon', also by Stephen King
And 'Carrie', 'Pet Semetary','It', 'Salem's Lot', 'The Stand'...

sir arthur conan doyle
jules verne
h.g. wells
tolkein
and allot of others others i can't remember.
does opera count? if so, wagner
at the moment conan doyle is my favourite, i've been reading the sherlock holms and recently read the lost world, and i really liked those.

You know what. I was always a fan of the Berenstain Bears books. I used to sit up in the hallway in the middle of the night and read them when I was little, until one night I scratched my cornea and had to wear an eye patch.

Seven Froggies Went to School was and always will be my favorite book ever. I can recite the entire thing.

Good times, good times.

Well, some of mine: (Note: I always confuse Nightguard and Nightwatch, so I am not sure which is which)

Therry Pratchett: It's logic, isn't it..I especially like the Nightguard and every book with Death...just too cool. And Nightwatch are (at least the latest) some of the more serious ones of him, I'd say.

White Wolf: Too many authors, but all Short stories they have in their rulebooks just kick ass, totally. And I'd consider the Sourcebooks good stuff too, I loved to read Vampire: Gehenna, it was awesome to read about the actual end of a world for once.

Markus Heitz - German Author, his Uldart series is awesome, even though a little predictable.

Edgar Allen Poe - Recently bought a gathering of his shortstories, very, very dark....and neat!

Sergej Likuanenko - Nightwatch, AWESOME book, can't wait to have the second book, Daywatch(guard) translated into English

And several others, though those are the ones that stand out most...

OOO Nightguard was great, and I loved the werewolf stories in the book, the Vampire the Requiem Ghould book had some great stories as well.

I personaly love Antagonists...the story about the little puppet-ghost rocks. 'Since then, she's sitting at the window and looking out, and the neighbourhood children come nearer to the rotting house every day...'

Lets see...

R.A. Salvatore, naturally.

George R.R. Martin for being God and making the Song of Ice and Fire series.

Terry Goodkind for SoT.

Robert Jordan... dunno why, but I can't put down his books.

Weis and Hickman, duh.

Rowling for Harry Pothead

Douglass Adams for the Bible of the Universe.

Those are the ones that stand above and beyond the rest. No author may even touch these figures, for they have acheived transcendance of writing.

Dan Simmons - hyperion series, the crook factory, carrion comfort. highly recommend him.
Richard Adams - Mostly known for watership down (quite sucky in my opinion) try Maia or Shardik.
Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged, one of the best books I have ever read.
Isaac Asimov - You are a complete and utter nub if you have not read any of his books.
Bentley Little - local author in my area, writes cheap horror. Decent work though.

There is a movie coming out soon for that, and I'm really hoping they do the book justice instead of taking the book, cutting it up into tiny pieces and using it as confetti like they normally do in such cases.

Theres also a law suite against it so we may have the movie being delayed.

Apparently they stole from another book or something like that

I say to that law suite, Nothing is original anymore!

Well it won't be perfect...it would be too long that way. And Tom Hanks is too old to be Langdon, it should have been like Christian Bale, or at least someone younger and sexier than Tom Hanks. Bah.

I absolutely love The House of Spirits and Allende. Fantastic work.

Other favorite authors are Nabokov, Gene Wolfe, Haruki Murakami, Umberto Eco, Dostoevsky and China Mieville.

Check them out!

Also as for The House of Spirits, it was also one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

Shulgin/Brandon

Well, Langdon is supposed to be in his 40s-50s...