Top 10 favourite writers

Title is self-explanatory.

I'll be including all writers; prose, philosophy, even writers on natural sciences and whatnot. Any writing counts.

1. Leo Tolstoy
2. Aristotle
3. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4. George Orwell
5. John Stuart Mill
6. Albert Camus
7. Franz Kafka
8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
9. Christopher Hitchens
10. JRR Tolkien

Ben Shapiro

@HellfireUnit wrote:Ben Shapiro

Tbh, his one book I read is very good actually lmao. Isn't really reminiscent of his screeching ADHD-driven tv-persona lol.

Books are for nerds, audio books are where it’s at

@Vaelias wrote:Books are for nerds, audio books are where it’s at

Audio books are for disabled old men who have trouble sleeping

@Vaelias wrote:Books are for nerds, audio books are where it’s at

for when people dont know how to read.

My list is unordered and will be outdated pretty quickly but for now:

Alison Croggon (Books of Pellinor).
J.K Rowling (Harry Potter).
Sarah J. Maas (Throne of Glass/A Court of Thorns & Roses).
Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol).
Sean Stewart (Yoda: Dark Rendezvous).
Khaled Hosseini (Kite Runner/A Thousand Splendid Suns).
Sabaa Tahir (Ember in the Ashes).
Stephen King (It).
George Orwell (1984/Animal Farm).
Matharu Taran (The Summoner).

Imagine liking JK Rowling

1-JRR Tolkien
2-George Orwell
3-Frank Herbert
4-Michael Ende
5-Ray Bradbury
6-Philip K. Dick´
7-Orson Scott Card
8-H. G. Wells
9-James Luceno
10-Dan Simmons

No particular order:

P. Rothfuss
R. Jordan
B. Sanderson
S. Erikson
JRR. Tolkien
A. Ryan
A. Conan Doyle
G. Orwell

@HellfireUnit wrote:Imagine liking JK Rowling

I don't. I like her books, albeit less than I did when I was a kid.

@BreakofDawn wrote:

@HellfireUnit wrote:Imagine liking JK Rowling

I don't. I like her books, albeit less than I did when I was a kid.

Harry Potter is amazing JK Rowling and the Fantastic beasts shit are AWFUL

Why do you dislike JK Rowling?

@Rei wrote:Why do you dislike JK Rowling?

She's a virtue signaller who tries to retcon stupid stuff through tweets or tries to appeal to SJWs by going directly against her material, e.g. Hermione being black. Also, her knowledge of history and her own books is hilariously bad (she got Merlin's era wrong by around 600 years and forgot that Hogwarts had sewage systems when the castle was built).

She's kind of the George Lucas of fantasy: brilliant ideas and created a phenomenal piece of work, but as a person she's a bit of a moron who can't stop messing around with material. The only difference is that Lucas had the integrity to do his own thing and understood when to leave it be.

Rowling is a hack

@BreakofDawn wrote:

@Rei wrote:Why do you dislike JK Rowling?

She's a virtue signaller who tries to retcon stupid stuff through tweets or tries to appeal to SJWs by going directly against her material, e.g. Hermione being black. Also, her knowledge of history and her own books is hilariously bad (she got Merlin's era wrong by around 600 years and forgot that Hogwarts had sewage systems when the castle was built).

She's kind of the George Lucas of fantasy: brilliant ideas and created a phenomenal piece of work, but as a person she's a bit of a moron who can't stop messing around with material. The only difference is that Lucas had the integrity to do his own thing and understood when to leave it be.

I do not really follow Twitter that much since it is full of pathetic SJWs who have nothing better to do than whine, complain and act all virtuous. Did the "Hermione being black" actually happen just to bow down to SJWs? Lmao.

@Rei wrote:

@BreakofDawn wrote:

@Rei wrote:Why do you dislike JK Rowling?

She's a virtue signaller who tries to retcon stupid stuff through tweets or tries to appeal to SJWs by going directly against her material, e.g. Hermione being black. Also, her knowledge of history and her own books is hilariously bad (she got Merlin's era wrong by around 600 years and forgot that Hogwarts had sewage systems when the castle was built).

She's kind of the George Lucas of fantasy: brilliant ideas and created a phenomenal piece of work, but as a person she's a bit of a moron who can't stop messing around with material. The only difference is that Lucas had the integrity to do his own thing and understood when to leave it be.

I do not really follow Twitter that much since it is full of pathetic SJWs who have nothing better to do than whine, complain and act all virtuous. Did the "Hermione being black" actually happen just to bow down to SJWs? Lmao.

You tell me. Personally it doesn't bother me either way, but the fact that she lies about it is quite clearly her trying to appear very accepting and liberal...yet she somehow forgets to omit Dumbledore being gay.

No Order:

Anthony Horowitz (Alex Rider series -- Amazon making live series hurray)
Christopher Paolini (Eragon series)
Lemony Snicket (Series of Unfortunate Events)
Steven King (probably my favorite author)

@BreakofDawn wrote:
You tell me. Personally it doesn't bother me either way, but the fact that she lies about it is quite clearly her trying to appear very accepting and liberal...yet she somehow forgets to omit Dumbledore being gay.

Well a lot of celebrities have no backbone and tend to virtue signal to get attention so that people tell them how great they are. I do not really care if Hermione was black but if you are going to do that then do it from the beginning in the books instead of changing the facts just to virtue signal and look accepting. It is sort of pathetic when celebrities do that and makes them look fake and ingenuine.

CS Lewis, but George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway are also up there.

@Sjuttiosju wrote:CS Lewis, but George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway are also up there.

Because of his fantasy stuff, or christian apologetics?

I take it because of the first?

C.S. Lewis, George Orwell, and John Stuart Mill.

@Bart: The former yes. His fantasy novels have wonderful prose and some of the best character development/world building in the genre (as far as my own experience goes at least).

@Sjuttiosju wrote:@Bart: The former yes. His fantasy novels have wonderful prose and some of the best character development/world building in the genre (as far as my own experience goes at least).

wait, u know how to read?