Who is your favourite author except Enid?

[7upromana01]

I like J.K.Rowling and Angela Mcallister.

[Katharine]

I think J.K.Rowling would have to be a close second favourite behind Agatha Christie. That's the only other author I think that I've got all their books. Although Enid Blyton is my favourite author I don't think I've got anywhere near all her books, and am unlikely to have, but I think I've probably got a copy of all her major series, although most are 1970s/80s paperbacks.

[7upromana01]

I have some books but not loads. I'm collecting though

[Francis]

Living in Guildford I would plump for PG Wodehouse - best book would be 'Code of the Woosters'.

[Jen-Jen]

I love Frank Richards as much as Enid Blyton!

[John Pickup]

My favourite children's authors after Enid are Malcolm Saville and Frank Richards who wrote the Billy Bunter books.
From them I progressed to Alistair MacLean who wrote some cracking thrillers.
Since then, I haven't got a favourite but I will admit to liking an American author called Ron Rash.
I also have a penchant for Golden Age crime novels which has recently been rekindled, thanks to buying The Hooded Gunman, the definitive work on the subject.

[Chrissie777]

Hello everyone

I'm not sure if this has been talked about already, but what is your favourite author
if you couldn't choose EB? I like Jules Verne, J.K Rowling and others. But what
others do you like?

Well, regarding children's books that's definitely British children's books author Norman Dale who wrote many adventurous books in the 1940's and 1950's for The Bodley Head, his publisher.
I also enjoyed the "Bill Bergson" trilogy written in the 1940's and early 1950's by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren. They must have been inspired by the Famous Five!

Regarding adult authors I have too many to list them all, so I list just my favorites: Swedish author Stieg Larsson who died way too young, Swedish author Camilla Laeckberg, US authors Linwood Barclay and Nelson DeMille, British crime novelist Peter Robinson (DCI Banks series), British novelist Barbara Erskine, US novelist Nancy Thayer and US crime novelist Mary Higgins Clark who died 13 months ago.
Carlene Thompson wrote a dozen excellent and very unpredictable thrillers, but her last 4 or 5 books were no longer up to par.
My favorite of them all is German crime novelist Charlotte Link.

[Chrissie777]

As a child I only read Enid Blyton, so don't have another favourite author.

I envy you, Julie.
In lack of Blyton books I had to read hundreds of other children's book authors between the time I was 6 and started reading and when I was 14 or 15 and stopped reading Blyton for a few years.
Looking back on my childhood books I can say now with a good conscience: there simply was no better children's book author than Enid Blyton!

[Courtenay]

Favourite author for children: C.S. Lewis, for the Narnia series. (I have read the first of his "space trilogy" for adults, but I'm sorry to say I didn't like it and have no interest in reading the other two.)

Favourite author for adults: Jane Austen!

[Barnard]

I read Out Of The Silent Planet by CS Lewis when I was at school. I quite enjoyed it.

[pete9012S]

Agatha Christie is my equal favourite author besides Enid Blyton.
How I wish there was a forum as good as this one devoted to her...

As Nigel and I have often agreed, the Official Agatha Christie forum just doesn't cut it - especially more so now that it has been scrapped!

All we have is access to the old forums.

There was one exceptionally knowledgeable fan whose name escapes me who seemed to know absolutely everything about Agatha Christie.

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[Boodi 2]

As a child I mainly read books by Enid Blyton, but also by Monica Edwards and I also read Black Beauty and Little Women. I later graduated to Agatha Christie, but while I enjoyed the books, they did not leave the same lasting impression on me as some of Enid Blyton's books did. Since then I have read many books (including most of the Harry Potter series) and particularly enjoyed the "Ladies No1 detective agency" and the short stories by Guy de Maupassant, but unfortunately due to my work, which involves proof reading, translation and language editing, my eyes are often wrecked and I now try to avoid reading in my leisure time (except when on holiday) and spend a lot of time outdoors (walking or gardening) instead.

[Boatbuilder]

Pete, why not start your own Agatha Christie forum website?

There are loads of Agatha Christie domain names that you could choose from.

One such domain that is available is http://www.agathachristie.community" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; which sounds a suitable domain for a forum but there are cheaper '.suffixes'. Here are just a few. (the above link doesn't work if you click it, for obvious reasons).



You would then need a hosting company for your website and the software to run it, probably the same as this one - 'phpBB' which is free.

[Debbie]

I'd have to go to Malcolm Saville and Monica Edwards who between them started collecting children's books.

Or as my husband would put it "they have a lot to blame".

[pete9012S]

Or as my husband would put it "they have a lot to blame".

My wife is the same Debbie - until she comes to me asking for a new book to read on her kindle!