Who are your top 3 authors, and what makes them rank so highly?

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   sparkleyfingerposted 11 years ago

   Who are your top 3 authors, and what makes them rank so highly?

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   Nell Roseposted 11 years ago

   Hi, my top three are all women. I use to read books by men, but then realised that the women were ten times better! lol!
   1. Diana Gabaldon. She has written at least 8 books in the series Outlander, a time travelling adventure that starts in the 1940s, a nurse goes through the Stones, like Stonehenge and arrives back in the 1700's at the time of the Scottish war with England at Culloden. The characters are so real everybody is in love with Jamie Fraser the main character.
   2. Kresley cole. She has written at least 13 books of vampires, witches warlocks demons and so on. They are full of adventure, adult content! and very sexy! fantastic!
   3. Richelle Mead. Just discovered her, her books have humor, vamps and succubus, the main character is working for hell, but she is very funny! well worth reading.

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      sparkleyfingerposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      The Outlander series sound interesting, I will have to try and get them on amazon

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   resspenserposted 11 years ago

   Robert Crais, Robert B. Parker, Stephen King

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   Esmeowl12posted 11 years ago

   1. Stephen King
   2. Harlan Coben
   3. James Patterson
   
   They are all wonderfully suspenseful writers who use just the right touch of humor in the perfect situations.

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      sparkleyfingerposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      I love Stephen King and have read James Patterson, but I will have to look up Harlan Coben!! Do you recommend a title to start with?

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   aminahchahineposted 11 years ago

   Stephen Colbert
   Nate Silver
   Ray Kurzweil

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   point2makeposted 11 years ago

   My choices would be
   1....Dean Koontz ....if I want to be scared
   2...Tom Clancy ......if I am in the mood for a military and political thriller
   3...Clive Cussler.....for a great "cliff-hanger".

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      sparkleyfingerposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      LOVE Dean Koontz!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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   boyds73posted 11 years ago

   Carlene Thompson, Wendy Corsi Staub, and Sandra Brown.  I love "who-done-it's" and these gals know how to grab you and make you never want to put the book down!   Reading is my bedtime-forget my day-don't think about tomorrow time so connecting to a character is essential for me in order to really get involved in the stories. I just finished Sandra Browns "Hello Darkness", excellent!  Carlene Thompson is my all time favorite however.  You cannot go wrong with any of her books if you like these thrillers

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      sparkleyfingerposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Awesome, I will look into those authors! I'm looking for something new for my collection

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   Savio Dawsonposted 11 years ago

   Stephen King - for horror thriller and Eli Goldratt for Operations Management..

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      sparkleyfingerposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      King seems to be quite popular

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      Savio Dawsonposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Appears so. No wonder hollywood has made movies of few of his books and that too generating decent revenues.

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   MickSposted 11 years ago

   Huxley, his wit, and ability to handle multiple dialogue.
   Orwell for his towering immagination when pointing up society.
   Both Huxley and Orwell for encouraging questioning the future of society.
   Gibson for writing stories that are un-put-downable.

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      sparkleyfingerposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      I get confudes with multipple dialogue! lollol I always have to backtrack to figure out who's speaking!!!!! Totally blonde of me, I know!

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