Favorite Modern Author

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Heretic
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Feb 10, 2010 5:41am
Stephen King has been a favorite of mine since I read Skeleton Crew and Christine in either 6th or 7th grade.
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tiger1990
Posts: 139
Feb 10, 2010 9:14am
From the list I like Stephen King the best, but right now I enkoy reading Harlan Coben & James Patterson the best.
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eersandbeers
Posts: 1,071
Feb 10, 2010 9:58am
I Wear Pants wrote:
cbus4life wrote: Michael Chabon is the greatest American author working today.

Hands down.
Cormac Mccarthy should at least be in the discussion.

McCarthy should be banned from ever writing books again after The Road.

I just cannot understand the hype with that book. It is literally 280 pages of a man walking around with his child. I am not exaggerating when I say there is only 10 pages of interaction with other characters. Absolutely nothing happens in that book and there is no pay off at all.
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ptown_trojans_1
Posts: 7,632
Feb 10, 2010 10:29am
Tom Clancy growing up.
Loved the Dark Tower series by Stephen King.
I'm also an alternate history nut, so I enjoyed the Southern Victory series and Worldwar/ Colonization series by Harry Turtledove.
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The Equalizer
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Feb 10, 2010 10:58am
2nd for turtledove ^^