Favorite Author/Book/Webnovel and least favorite Author/Book/Webnovel?

[Representing_Tromba]

I want to know who your favorite and least favorite authors are? What your favorite and most hated book is? Lastly, The same for webnovels?

Why are they your favorite and least favorite?

 

[Racosharko]

your favorite author

Terry Pratchett , Martha wells, Colin Bateman

What your favorite book

In recent memory
Red rising, The Devil's Detective, Senlin ascends.

I don't waste brain space for things I don't like... so its hard to remember the worst.

 

[Rezcore]

Favorite actual author? John Ringo, his ancestry has Johnny Ringo of Tombstone fame. Yep, killed by Doc Holiday, whom I discovered recently is a 4th cousin. Then Robert Jordan.
Can't say I have a favorite webnovel author

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Have not read enough webnovels to have a favorite author and any "least favorite" ... well, I never finished the first chapter of so don't really count.
Favorite authors in print are probably Ramsey Campbell and Robert Bloch, though Douglas Adams and Sir Terry Pratchett also rate way up there. Favorite book - just going from that sample - was Cold Print (the illustrated version) by Campbell - a collection of short stories where only two stories weren't absolutely brilliant, one of THEM was saved by some of the coolest art in the collection.
Least favorite author ... well, for long fiction absolutely, hands down, Henry James (short fiction, though, his "Turn of the Screw" is kind of brilliant) - Portrait of the Lady was 400 pages of nothing - woman makes serious mistakes, winds up in horrible situation, then looks like she's right back where she started and maybe about to make the same mistakes for different reasons all over again. Sheer torture... Though his skill at short fiction almost redeems him, it takes a LOT to make up for that...

 

[Racosharko]

Terry Pratchett , Martha wells, Colin Bateman

Ah~ Raymond Chandler, Michael J Sullivan, Joe Abercrombie

 

[ThisAdamGuy]

Favorite: Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson.

Least favorite: Sarah J Maas. Pick any of her books, I don't care. I just really freaking hate her.

 

[RiceballWasTaken]

I want to know who your favorite and least favorite authors are? What your favorite and most hated book is? Lastly, The same for webnovels?

Why are they your favorite and least favorite?

Favorite: My wife, ORV.

Least favorite: anyone smutty

 

[Racosharko]

Ah~ Raymond Chandler, Michael J Sullivan, Joe Abercrombie

Also older ones Douglas Adams, John le Carré,

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Also older ones Douglas Adams, John le Carré,

That's OLDER? For me, Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. P. Lovecraft, H. Rider Haggard, J. R. R. Tolkien, Edgar Allan Poe, Johnathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo... THOSE are "older ones"... :D

 

[Racosharko]

, H. P. Lovecraft, J. R. R. Tolkien, Edgar Allan Poe, Alexandre Dumas

I like them a little.... I respect them... but they are not my fav, not my top tier...
because I am a pop-loving scumy philistine.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I like them a little.... I respect them... but they are not my fav, not my top tier...
because I am a pop-loving scumy philistine.

I may be a bit of a Philistine myself but not much of a pop-loving one.
And I could go older - if you look at it as literature, there are some truly fantastic stories in The Bible (more so in the Old Testament but there are some beautiful sections in the NT as well), for example, and there are things like Beowulf, The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid that deserve the title "classic" - not to mention more 'young pups' like William Shakespeare, John Milton; been a while since I looked up the term, but I think "eclectic dilettante" is the best term for my tastes...

 

[l8rose]

Favorite book... can't choose between them but it would be The HarperHall trilogy by Anne MacCaffrey.

Least favorite would probably be "The Daughter of the Dragon". Thought it was a fantasy, the back read like cyberpunk but it turned out to be a girl's fever dream in an asylum (yeah... the "it was all a dream" plot).

Favorite author would be Stephen King because I'm honestly in awe of the amount of books he's produced and most are above average...if anyone little wordy (Do not read the original unedited version of the Stand, it's like 500 extra pages of overexplanation).

Least Favorite would be the person who wrote 50 Shades. Simply because it attracted so much wrong attention to the BDSM lifestyle and because the whole thing came about because of Twilight (which is also not much better on terms of writing).

Don't have a preference when it comes to web novels as I've mostly only read translated C and K novels online.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Least favorite would probably be "The Daughter of the Dragon". Thought it was a fantasy, the back read like cyberpunk but it turned out to be a girl's fever dream in an asylum (yeah... the "it was all a dream" plot).

Sounds like the highly controversial film "Sucker Punch" (which I think I'm the only person on Earth who has a "neutral shading to positive" view of it - most people I know either LOVE it or utterly despise it).

Favorite author would be Stephen King because I'm honestly in awe of the amount of books he's produced and most are above average...if anyone little wordy (Do not read the original unedited version of the Stand, it's like 500 extra pages of overexplanation).

King is great until the last 20 or so pages of anything longer than ... well ... 20 or so pages (and freely admits it). He has some truly amazing short fiction, and that was what made me a fan of the man back in the 80s. At least he seems to actually write his own stuff (or clearly admit it when he co-writes with someone else), not like several other authors with "writing farms"....
He also wrote one of my absolute favorite non-fiction titles, Danse Macabre (a sequel to one of the best things H. P. Lovecraft wrote, Supernatural Horror in Literature).

 

[Hsinat]

Mainstreams
Fav books — folk of air trilogy, the inheritance games, hunger games, maze runner, 1984.
least fav book — ugly love never have I ever read a book as disgusting as this from the mainstream

 

[Deleted member 84247]

Good question. One I don't know the answer to.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Favorite author is Nikolai Gogol. I like the way he writes, I like what he writes. That's the best I came up with. The least favorite is Sanderson even though I've read none of his books. The reason is because he gives validation to basement-dwelling well ackhchually people that have zero creativity and substitute it with stolen videogame mechanics.

I don't know what are my favorite and most hated books.

Webnovels... I liked Mushoku the most I guess? The ones I dislike the most are a whole category of novels that are super tropey. All the Korean leveling up and Chinese cultivating up novels.

As for WN authors, I don't have a favorite or hated WN author. Mostly because all of them are very inconsistent. For example, Mushoku's author wrote a new novel and it's meh. I really liked Release that Witch, but following works are just not it, meh quality. So I don't know about WN authors.

 

[Clo]

Pirateaba, The Wandering Inn is my favourite

I guess Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt (Wheel of Time volume 2) would be my least favourite. I don't recall any other book I dropped as quickly—I didn't make it past chapter 1.

Oddly enough, my two other dropped books in memory:
Emperor God of Dune by Frank Herbert. Dropped it at around 33%
Lord of the Rings by Tolkien. Dropped it in the Moria.

I swear, I should hand back my geek card, I am going to anger people so much with my picks.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I guess Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt (Wheel of Time volume 2) would be my least favourite. I don't recall any other book I dropped as quickly—I didn't make it past chapter 1.

That one was hard to get through. As was book five. Gave up on either 7 or 8. From five on, it felt like the stories and characters had grown beyond Jordan's ability to control, so he just described the scenery. Again. In painstaking detail. Loved his descriptions in book one and wished I had his gift for it. By book three I was wishing he had my "gift" for forgetting scenery...

Oddly enough, my two other dropped books in memory:
Emperor God of Dune by Frank Herbert. Dropped it at around 33%
Lord of the Rings by Tolkien. Dropped it in the Moria.

I swear, I should hand back my geek card, I am going to anger people so much with my picks.

God Emperor of Dune is the third book in the series right - Dune (brilliant), Children of Dune (good but not great), God Emperor (tedious plodding mess)? I think Chapterhouse Dune was the next one, or was that the fifth? And there's a Dune Messiah I think. Only finished three and only finished the third with an extreme effort fueled by love of the first book.
The only "classic geek" book I've never been able to finish so far is The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddings - kind of a second person narrative where an omniscient third person narrator is talking directly to the reader as if they were a character ... until a scene actually starts, then it's allowed to play out without the narrator talking to the reader, but when the scene ends, he's right back there. That double level of separation made it impossible for me to "connect" with the story.

 

[Goodmann]

Lois McMaster Bujold, the Miles Vorkosigan series: Humor, excitement, military, espionage, wild escapades, some serious thoughts about biotechnology's consequences -- multiple Hugos multiple Nebulas. More recently the Curse of Chalion series, for fantasy. Ringo yes, David Drake, David Weber for the Honor Harrington series if you don't mind long novels.
Dislikes? Dhalgren by Samuel Delany thick book utter waste of time

 

[Clo]

God Emperor of Dune is the third book in the series right - Dune (brilliant), Children of Dune (good but not great), God Emperor (tedious plodding mess)? I think Chapterhouse Dune was the next one, or was that the fifth? And there's a Dune Messiah I think.

Dune and Messiah (book 1 and 2) are focused on Paul,
Dune 3 is Children of Dune in which the twins, Leto Jr and his Ghanima, battle their oppressive aunt, Alia (that's my my favourite Dune novel)
Dune 4 is Emperor God, and when I dropped it. Huge time skip, and it's this mess of politics with the stalker side story of Leto Jr. the worm and the girl who he foresaw would kill him, or something?

Couldn't care enough to finish it.

I read books for the characters. Young Leto II and Ghanima were fun. The emperor God wasn't.