# Who is your favorite author?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 20, 2000, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-author/22950 "2000-06-20T05:28:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![fredicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/779978/32.png) [@fredicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fredicus)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2000, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-author/22950/101 "2000-07-08T22:16:45Z")

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I see no mention of :

Raymond E Feist

Just one of many SCI-FI authors whose work I enjoy.

Fiction & Fantasy are indeed very different genres, but lets not get too pedantic !

Room for both in my skull 🙂

fred

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**Author:** ![OrganicMatter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/898d66/32.png) [@OrganicMatter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OrganicMatter)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2000, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-author/22950/102 "2000-07-08T22:49:02Z")

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Since Hunter S. Thompson has not been mentioned, I will put in a good word for the doctor.

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**Author:** ![Philbuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9a140/32.png) [@Philbuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philbuck)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2000, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-author/22950/103 "2000-07-09T02:22:45Z")

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I don’t think Joseph Heller has been mentioned yet. A lot of _Closing Time_ shot clear over my head, but _Catch-22_ alone is enough to make him top my list.

Twain would probably be second.

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**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2000, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-author/22950/104 "2000-07-09T08:56:28Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by blokeychap \*  
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> 1: Robert Jordan - his Wheel of Time series has to be the greatest series of books ever written ever!!! - read them and find out
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> 2: Terry Pratchett - he writes the funniest books ever written - read the Discworld books - everyone
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I’ll go with those two statements, but wonder “When will you make an end?” at Robert Jordan (and I wouldn’t say _best,_ exactly.

Add:  
Dumas, Austen, Dickens, Douglas Adams, Scott Adams, Card, McCaffrey, **Tokien, definitely,** oh, this is hard…, King and Koontz, sometimes (when they aren’t turning out garbage)… I’m sure I’ve left someone out…

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