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Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by flemsy15(m): 7:25pm On Jun 28, 2020
Sirheny007:
This is akin to asking a father to choose which among his sons he loves best. A paterfamilias worth his salt will not do that.
I will list 5 of my favorite authors of all times.

1. Lawrence Block
2. James Hardley Chase (Renee Brabazon)
3. Peter Cheyney
4. Chinua Achebe
5. Dan Brown

This list can alternate anyhow and I would not mind

Ps: James Hardly Chase wrote 153 books and I have read all of them!

MODIFIED: I am surprized no one has mentioned Agatha Christie!! The most published author on the face of the earth dead or alive

And I was forming Boss after reading 3. u can't go any further, we're coming, we'll all b @ 153 soon
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by Nobody: 7:26pm On Jun 28, 2020
samchide:

1. Williams Atkinson

2. Charles Fillmore

3. Catherine Ponder


mentalist
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by BreezyRita(f): 7:26pm On Jun 28, 2020
Can't say there's a favorite. But I love these writers, and in no particular order :

Dean Koontz
Sidney Sheldon
Nora Roberts.
H. P. Lovecraft
Mario Puzo
Patricia Cornwell
Stephen King, because he's like a legend
Agatha Christie because she's the queen of mysteries.
Dan Brown (smor love)
Clive Barker
Sandra Brown

Finally, y'all haven't seen the awesomeness of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child? Damn!

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Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by Vecto(m): 7:26pm On Jun 28, 2020
Dan Brown
Stephen Leacock
Grisham
Hardly Chase
cool
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by temmienewells(m): 7:26pm On Jun 28, 2020
Michael Connelly, I'm not really a fan of reading novels but any Michael Connelly's book is worth it.
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by mii4u(f): 7:27pm On Jun 28, 2020
ajebuter:
Jackie Collins : Hlollywood Wives, Hollywood Husbands, The World is Full of Divorced Women, Rock Star, Lucky, Chances, Lady Boss, Lucky Vendatta, Dangerous Kiss, Hollywood Kids, Hollywood Divorce, The Stud, The World is Full of Married Men,

Sidney Sheldon : If Tomorrow Comes, Rage of an Angel, Master of the Game, Noonday Conspiracy, Naked Face, The Other Side of Midnight, Bloodline, Memories of Midnight, The Stars Shine Down, Stranger in the Mirror...

Danielle Steel: ( Daddy, Zoya, Malice, Lightning, Story of Nick,

John Grisham : The Street Lawyer, Pelican Brief, The Firm,

Jeffery Archer: Kane and Abel,

Other great authors are: Sandra Brown, Dean Koontz, Stephen King, Barbara Kartland, Robert Ludlum, Dan Brown,

Wow! I love reading!
But u forgot to add James Hadley Chase for me, well all u listed are my favourite + Hadley Chase
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by abdul23(m): 7:27pm On Jun 28, 2020
Mine is the legend Herself. Agatha Christie.
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by ProJectAnatot(m): 7:27pm On Jun 28, 2020
Chiemeka1:
Mine is E W Kenyon. He is the best author on redemption. He authored the hidden man of the heart, in His presence, the two kinds of righteousness, the two kinds of knowledge, the two kinds of faith, identification, what happened from the cross to the throne, the wonderful names of Jesus etc. If doubt me kindly Kenneth E Haggin.

If you have the EBook please send to me on WhatsApp. Zero eight zero forty-seven thirty-one fifty twenty-seven.
Thanks.
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by Warmaterial(m): 7:28pm On Jun 28, 2020
Professor Kofi Awoonor
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by simplyshade: 7:29pm On Jun 28, 2020
cheesy
DenreleDave:
This man.. Odunlade AdeKola


He writes script for movies
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by bluefilm: 7:31pm On Jun 28, 2020
As a youngster, I read James Hadley Chase a lot.

I thought no other author could surpass him.

But now that I am an oldie, I can't even believe there was a time I was dying to read Hadley Chase!

I just can't find reading James Hadley Chase as fun no matter how much I try now.

The stories seems so predictable and so outdated.

If it is not Second Grade Detective Tom Lepski pursuing any of his numerous hunches, it will be Mark Girland and Malik trying to outsmart each other.

If it is not Herman Radnitz trying to pull off any of his numerous heists, it will be Maddox trying to catch one insurance thief.

If it is one one beautiful woman needing the help of one young and ambitious man to kill her rich husband, it will be one man carefully plotting on how to kill his ugly and old rich wife!

Damn!

If I want to read any good book these days, I will simply settle with either Sidney Sheldon or John Grisham.

For me these days, James Hadley Chase is Strictly for Cash Kids!!!

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Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by Liposure: 7:31pm On Jun 28, 2020
In no particular order. i like oscar wilde, Shakespeare, thomas hardy, richard wright buchi emecheta, chinua achebe, ola rotimi, mongi beti, athol fugard, aeschylus, femi osofisan, charles dicken, george orwell

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Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by BOOKWORMLUX(m): 7:31pm On Jun 28, 2020
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Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by luminouz(m): 7:32pm On Jun 28, 2020
Sirheny007:


Send me a Pm via mail so I can give you a site.
There is no book written on the face of the earth that you cannot get there (As long as the author is recognized internationally)
Type in the name of the book (must be spelt correctly) on the search bar in the website and the available E-format would come up.
Then you download.

I always prefer the E-pub format because I have an app called supreader installed on my phone where I read with ease.
Thanks bro
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by Galaticos444: 7:32pm On Jun 28, 2020
Agatha Christie a.k.a. d queen of crime novel
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by Rapture4real(m): 7:33pm On Jun 28, 2020
Watchman Nee, Bro.Gbile Akanni, David Wilkerson, Poobe etc
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by CwazyBlaqGal(f): 7:33pm On Jun 28, 2020
Steven King
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by BluntTheApostle(m): 7:34pm On Jun 28, 2020
InventTech:
Chinua Achebe.

His works are prophetic in texture, ingenious in sequence.

Prophetic

Only A Man of the People had a prophesy and it was at the end of the novel. It seemed so hastily done that it made it seem like Achebe got wind of the coup plot and quickly wrapped up his story using it.

Aside that, none of his other works were prophetic.

Many writers have at least one book that was prophetic.
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by Opeade939(f): 7:35pm On Jun 28, 2020
1. James Hardly Chase 2. Wilbur Smith 3. Sidney Sheldon.
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by farem: 7:35pm On Jun 28, 2020
BankyGee:
Literature Titans!
Who is your favourite author of all time? Foriegn or Local.

For me, Rene Raymond Brabazon a.k.a James Hadley Chase is my favorite author of ALL time!

He's the crowned KING of all thriller writers!

50 of his book have been made into films!
He's a legend. He's my mentor!

Keep the comments rolling in!

Mine is D. O. Fagunwa, the author of Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irunmale and others.
His style is out of this world.
Assuming his works were made in English, he's not in the league of Williams Shakespeare!

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Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by luminouz(m): 7:35pm On Jun 28, 2020
bluefilm:
As a youngster, I read James Hadley Chase a lot.

I thought no other author could surpass him.

But now that I am an oldie, I can't even believe there was a time I was dying to read Hadley Chase!

I just can't find reading James Hadley Chase as fun no matter how much I try now.

The stories seems so predictable and so outdated.

If it is not Second Grade Detective Tom Lepski pursuing any of his numerous hunches, it will be Mark Garland and Malik trying to outsmart each other.

If it is not Herman Radnitz trying to pull of any of his numerous heists, it will be Maddox trying to catch one insurance theif.

If I want to read any good book these days, I will simply settle with either Sidney Sheldon or John Grisham.

For me these days, James Hadley Chase is Strictly for Cash Kids!!!
Wrong.

It's like saying Fela's songs are outdated. There is what's known as classic/evergreen content.

JHC is one of such.
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by offset67(m): 7:36pm On Jun 28, 2020
obasanjo
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by SeniorGee(m): 7:37pm On Jun 28, 2020
I love the African Writers Series..
Elechi Amadi's The Concubine.

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Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by BluntTheApostle(m): 7:38pm On Jun 28, 2020
Gentle0wavez:
William Shakespeare and Professor Wole Soyinka are my best playwrights, Edgar Allan Poe is my best poet. I don't read novels much so I don't have a best novelist but The picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde and the Alchemist Coelho Paulo are my best novels. My worst Novels ever are The old man and the sea by Earnest Hemingway and No longer at ease by Chinua Achebe. These books traumatized me from reading novels again, I hate them Sooooo much.

What did you mean by traumatized?
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by Marvinho: 7:39pm On Jun 28, 2020
Robert Greene 48Laws of Power
Mario Puzo The GodFather
Chinue Achebe
Myles Munroes

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Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by Nobody: 7:40pm On Jun 28, 2020
African author... Chinua Achebe
Foreign author. George Orwell. I especially like his Snowball animal farm. " some animals are not equal. Some are more equal than the others." grin ah.. That year.

Shakespeare kind of English made his art works very complex to understand. Except for the conversation part between characters. One of his works about Duke orsino, Sebastine and Sebastian.... Can't remember the title of that drama.

And then Gods are not to blame by Olarotimi ....

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Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by bluefilm: 7:40pm On Jun 28, 2020
luminouz:

Wrong.

It's like saying Fela's songs are outdated. There is what's known as classic/evergreen content.

JHC is one of such.

Evergreen wetin?!

In this computer and digital age, apart of the fingerprint technology, all other method of solving crimes that James Hadley Chase elaborately tried to describe will not even count in our world today.
Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by jerryflames(m): 7:41pm On Jun 28, 2020
For me, it's John Grisham... so in love with his novels

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Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by earnit1: 7:42pm On Jun 28, 2020
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Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by doncheks: 7:42pm On Jun 28, 2020
1. James Hadley Chase - I must have read at least 20 of his books. One of the books gave me a headache and nightmares smiley
2. Irving Wallace - I read the Plot. That's the longest novel I ever read. It was somewhere around 1000 pages. I'm still amazed at how the author masterfully connected 4 completely unrelated chapters. Beautifully crafted with an adult theme.
3. Erle Stanley Gardner - I believe I read more than 30 of the Perry Mason series. I almost chose a career in Law as a result.
4. Kole Omotosho - I just ordered another copy of A new dawn, a few weeks ago. I admire his style of narrating history via prose
5. Frederick Forsyth
6. Elechi Amadi
7. Agatha Christie - I'm pretty sure I read more than 30 Poirot Series.

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Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by SweetCunt97(f): 7:43pm On Jun 28, 2020
Sirheny007:


Send me a Pm via mail so I can give you a site.
There is no book written on the face of the earth that you cannot get there (As long as the author is recognized internationally)
Type in the name of the book (must be spelt correctly) on the search bar in the website and the available E-format would come up.
Then you download.

I always prefer the E-pub format because I have an app called supreader installed on my phone where I read with ease.
But what stops you from dropping the name here? Scared it will crash?

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Re: Who Is Your Favorite Author Of All Time? by Sirheny007(m): 7:47pm On Jun 28, 2020
SweetCunt97:
But what stops you from dropping the name here? Scared it will crash?

If you knew what it cost me to get the website!
I paid money to a bookclub to me the site. If you want the site too, send me a pm and i'd give it to you.

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