Once you get past the excruciatingly slow pacing, Tolstoy's novels can be very good.
However, the vote for my favourite has to go to Bernard Cornwell (author of the Richard Sharpe series)
(I probably butchered the details on that second sentence... ah, well.)
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 <br /><br />\'Far be it from me to do such a thing as flee from them! If our time has come, let us die bravely for our kinsmen and not leave a stain upon our glory!\'<br />--1 Maccabees 9:10
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