Favorite Books And Authors, From any time period. Options

[metaldevil]

What books or authors do you like best? They can be from any period in history.

Here's a few favorite books of mine off the top of my head:

The Count of Monte Cristo (all-time favorite) by Alexandre Dumas
The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
The Damnation Game and Everville by Clive Barker
Jurassic Park and Lost World by Michael Crichton

As for authors, I love Hugo above all others because his books are works of art in print. I guess that's the best way I can describe them. Dumas' Cristo is my favorite, however, because it's the best story of revenge I've ever read. My modern favorites are Barker and Crichton. Barker is graphic and disturbing, but he sometimes "paints" the framework of a scene in which you fill it in with your own imagination. Crichton has an amazing ability of explaining complex ideas in which a layman (myself most of the time lol) can understand. I read his Airframe in one sitting. His stuff is hard for me to put down. lol

I like Dan Brown, but he doesn't have a large enough selection of books. If I'm not mistaken, he's only written four. I liked his Angels and Demons much more than I did The Da Vinci Code. His Digital Fortress was gripping up until the midpoint where things seemed to teeter off, and Murphy's Law stepped in more than it needed to. lol

[lostboyz]

just finished reading slaughterhouse 5, i must say its one of the best books i've read.