Share with us your favorite writers and books! If you have known me long, you know my faves range from Stephen King to Patrick Suskind, from Chuck Palahniuk to Salman Rushdie.
This is Stephen King. I've read every single one of his books, except for the latest book of short stories, but my favorite is his Dark Tower series.
If you start with The Gunslinger, the first in his series, you will not stop - through thousands of pages - until you finish the last one, The Dark Tower. I've read this series more than I've read The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
This is Patrick Suskind. He wrote Perfume, maybe my all time favorite book. It's...erm...memorable.
Perfume is about Grenouille, a little troll of a person. He has a preternatural sense of smell, but has no scent himself. He's the hero of the story and also a man who murders people in his quest to smell human.
Here's Chuck Palahniuk. He's another author I've read completely. My favorite, though, is his novel Rant.
Rant is about a man who leaves a legacy of boogers and gold coins, while at the same time predicting the future. It's sooooo simultaneously weird and beautiful. That's Palahniuk for ya.
And perhaps my favorite author - and courageous human being - is Salman Rushdie. In fact, one of the books I included in my grad thesis was his novel, The Moor's Last Sigh.
It's a story about a man who ages faster than anybody in the world, but he's also an incarnation of a past king of Granada. Rushdie's is some of the most stunning writing I've ever read. Rushdie is lyrical and profound. Silly and resonant. He can build a great story full of jokes that, when you think about them later, become so poignant they make you cry. Or vice versa!