Your favorite authors. But something is weel bit different

[Sir Goulum]

Fav: J.R.R. Tolkein
Least Fav: Pretty much any romance novel writer [img]graemlins/1puke.gif[/img]

[dplax]

Favourite: Frank Herbert. favourtie book he wrote: Dune.

Least favourite: any classical litterature we had to read for school because they were just so boring.

[Melusine]

Originally posted by dplax: Least favourite: any classical litterature we had to read for school because they were just so boring.

Could it at all be remotely possible that it's not the books that have a problem, it's you? Nevermind. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Anyway, wasn't the second question what the worst book by your favourite author is?? To me that's a much more interesting question than the boring old done to death favourite/non-favourite author thing.

Anyway, I don't have a single favourite author, but here are some of the writers who are among my favourites, and the book I least liked by them.

Kazuo Ishiguro - Brilliant in The Unconsoled and The Remains of the Day, slightly less brilliant but still OK in When we were orphans.

Iain Banks - Brilliant in almost everything he does, but I didn't manage to get through Song of Stone and some of his SF works are slightly less engrossing than the others.

Byatt - love all her other books, but The Biographer's Tale didn't live up to my high expectations.

To answer the first question, as I said I cannot name just one fave author, and neither can I name one that I find the absolute worst, so I'll just say that my least favourite is any drivelly fantasy-type crap. I've nothing against a GOOD novel that happens to have a fantasy-setting, but there are just too many poor excuses for novels out there.

[dplax]

Originally posted by Melusine: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by dplax: Least favourite: any classical litterature we had to read for school because they were just so boring.

Could it at all be remotely possible that it's not the books that have a problem, it's you? Nevermind. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
</font>[/QUOTE]It could just as well be that I don't like that type of literature. But just as a side note about 75 % of the class thought that authors like Dostojevskij were boring. I don't mean that litterature taught in school doesn't have its merits, but century old ideas aren't always the best.