12/26/2006
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Martin
| George Martin: Ooo...chilling. The 'Ice and Fire' series of books are just spellbinding. Brilliant characters on a fantasy backdrop of political intrigue and backstabbing, I have never known an author who seems to love torturing his characters as much as he does! Pure evil...and yet that's why we love it. |
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12/26/2006
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Fry
| Stephen Fry: The sheer brilliance and intelligence of this man shines through in his books. So funny, and yet sad and touching in all the right places, he produces books that you can read again and again, and still laugh and ache with them. My favourite is 'The Liar', never has a book made me laugh as much as this one...and yet it is still so clever with twists and turns that are far superior to the supposedly best thriller and mystery writers, mentioning no names... |
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12/26/2006
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Thackeray
| William Makepeace Thackeray: Anyone with a name like that has to be good, huh? I love 'Vanity Fair', featuring the infamous 'Becky Sharp' as the lead character...the very first of the strong, ruthless female characters...and written so well by a man no less. |
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12/26/2006
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Tolkien
| J.R.R. Tolkien: Need I say more? 'Lord of the Rings' blew me away. I have never read a book that has included as much as Rings. Love and loyalty in friendship and kin, realistic family relationships, an epic adventure, so many metaphores in the story to express views on real life and attitudes, full and indepth characters, a lush and vivid history of the fantasy world, and just really cracking story writing. Never, in my opinion, has another book managed to capture all of these things so well and with such quality. |
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