The Author you've read the most books by...

[WarBeast]

I got to thinking about it the other day, that there are a handful of authors that I've read the hell out of. Book after book after book.... something just keeps me coming back.

As for what author I've read the most of, I'd say it would be a toss-up between King and Koontz... not because I consider them the ultimate best of writers... actually quite the contrary... but I do consider them good quality literary junk-food (especially Koontz).

After I finish a good thought-provoking, cerebral piece of literature, I tend to prefer my next book to be something light, thoughtless and basically just entertaining. Something to cleanse my mental palette before diving into deeper, more thoughtful fare. King and Koontz tend to fit the bill perfectly in that endeavor.

Although I'd only consider a small handful of either author's work to be totally righteous mind-blowing reading, it must be said that it has been a very rare occasion that I found one of their books to be a truly awful, regrettable waste of my time.

Most often King and Koontz deliver what I expect from them... simple entertainment. Something interesting to read, while I'm taking a shit.

So... avid readers, what author would you say you've read the most books by and why do you keep coming back for more?

[Wrathborne]

umm...hmmm, read some King, some RL stine, some Howard, some Tolkein, some Asprin, and some jesus(was bored so I read a few paragraphs of the bible)

I think I've read more Asprin than anything.

[Shreds_of_Flesh]

R.L. STINE

[KING]

1st place goes to King with 15 novels
2nd place is J.K Rowling with 7 novels
3rd place winner is Richard Harris with 5 novels

[dead breed]

RL Stine then Steve King

[koolmike]

James Patterson

(I love Alex Cross)

[woodenheart]

James Patterson

(I love Alex Cross)

So do I. :thumbup:

[koolmike]

:beerchug2:

[Joker]

Richard Laymon or Weis & Hickman

[slasherman]

Definately King, I've read pry 15 of his novels/short story collections. The reason I always read him is that he's got a real way with imagery he paints a pretty vivid picture at times.

[darkoverlord]

R.L.STINE

[UzumakiW]

I see I'm not the only one here to say R.L Stine :bigthumbup:.

[darkoverlord]

I see I'm not the only one here to say R.L Stine :bigthumbup:.

i still read his books i have close to 80 books right now of his fear street series and his trilogies :bigthumbup:

[slasherman]

R.L. Stine is pretty cool, I read almost all of the goosebumps books as a kid... think I might still have most of them.

[UzumakiW]

I wish I had collected all of the original Goosebumps books. I have a decent amount, but not all of them, and I haven't seen them in bookstores too much.

[darkoverlord]

I wish I had collected all of the original Goosebumps books. I have a decent amount, but not all of them, and I haven't seen them in bookstores too much.

you could probably find them on ebay or amazon.

[Slayer]

I too have to go with R.L Stine

[slasherman]

Yea, I have nowhere near the full collection but have pry 25-30ish. I just read the article on wikipedia i guess there are 62 books in total. It was a pretty interesting article actually lol.

[UzumakiW]

you could probably find them on ebay or amazon.

You can, and that's probably what I'm going to do.

[Slayer]

I'm proud to say I have the full Goosebumps collection

[Get Some]

RL stine and gary paulsen

[UzumakiW]

Slayer = Lucky. :thumbup:

[Misfit]

brian keene and william shakespeare:thumbup:

[Snuggle]

I only started counting what I read at the beginning of what I read last year, and out of the 33 books or so I've read the most I've read by any author is 2 or 3 books. However when I was a child I read the shit out of goosebumps. I read probably about 20 or so even though I figured out the pattern in book 5 or so. I remember my favorite was part fantasy, where this boardgame all sucked some people into this fantasy realm. However I remember it ending with this huge cliffhanger and I just wanted to hit someone in the face. I never read any R.L. Stine again. Didn't he write some adult novels too?

[darkoverlord]

I only started counting what I read at the beginning of what I read last year, and out of the 33 books or so I've read the most I've read by any author is 2 or 3 books. However when I was a child I read the shit out of goosebumps. I read probably about 20 or so even though I figured out the pattern in book 5 or so. I remember my favorite was part fantasy, where this boardgame all sucked some people into this fantasy realm. However I remember it ending with this huge cliffhanger and I just wanted to hit someone in the face. I never read any R.L. Stine again. Didn't he write some adult novels too?

yeah he wrote superstitious as well.

[myersgirl13]

Richard Laymon

[choptop2]

I wouldn't call King thoughtless. He usually has something to say about life in all his works, he doesn't preach, but it's in there.

Out of all the books I've read the most by one author would be Chuck Palahniuk, followed by William Gibson.

[Luris Blear]

Terry Goodkind, easily.

Second -- couldn't say. Robert Asprin, William Gibson, and Douglas Adams all kind of mash together around there.

[willE84]

i usually have to force myself to put down James Patterson's books. 2nd fave's Koontz. i really do need to broaden my horizons though
Jonathan Kellerman's books are pretty decent

[smokey]

It would be between Koontz and Laymon. Koontz would probably edge it. That pair have have written some quality books.

[Luris Blear]

I just realized that James Clemens trails only slightly behind the others. His fantasy novels are sometimes poorly thought out, but I love his ability to thread stories and change perspectives.

[smokey]

yeah he wrote superstitious as well.

Yeah i have read that one. I really liked it.

[ShaneMalicious]

Kurt Vonnegut. Easily.

[Doc Awesome]

J.K. Rowling with Kathy Reichs in second.

[allilbitgoth]

Laurell k hamilton

[BooBerry]

S. King, just because he has so many books period.

[redmoon]

mine would be R.L Stine i've read over 100 of his books

[Darkgod]

RA Salvatore first, Koontz second.

[3/6]

RL Stein

[Revenant]

Brian Keene, Stephen Ambrose, R.L. Stine when i was younger, decent amount of King,

[Necromancer]

Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Michael Crichton, Terry Brooks, Thomas Harris

[Mikki]

Probably most of the books I have read have been by Richard Laymon followed by Kelley Armstrong.

[IKickAssForTheLord]

Probably Stephen King...

And Speaken of Stephen King, just got the new book from him "Just After Sunset" Probably start it sometime soon.

[Officefan]

I suppose it's R.L. Stine 'cause I read pretty much every Goosebumps book as a younglet. Then Stephen King. I'm also a Bret Easton Ellis completist, anxiously awaiting the publication if Imperial Bedrooms, and working my way through the stuff by Nathanael West, Hunter S. Thompson, Dostoyevsky, Sartre, P.K. Dick, Joan Didion and Ernest Hemingway. It's weird, you would think a list like this would expose peoples' favorite authors, but pop fiction and fantasy writers win by default through the sheer volume of their works.

[scaryperry]

Roald Dahl, when I was younger. He is the reason I love to read. I still enjoy picking up one of his books from time to time.

[Luris Blear]

My collection of Terry Goodkind books. Phantom and Confessor are even signed. :heart:

http://www.upcominghorrormovies.com/uhm/picture.php?albumid=159&pictureid=3829

These are just the hardcovers. I have most of them in paperback too, so my precious volumes never need to leave the house.

[Sydney]

Yeah, R.L. Stine because of my childhood. But now - Stephen King.

[toxicangel19]

R.A Salvatore.....

[3/6]

rl stine, thats all i ever read

[da Gay]

King. Hands Down.

[ShadowPeople]

I read a lot of Stephen King and Simon Clark.

I like Simon Clark a little better though, his stories are just as good as Stephen Kings, but much less detail. My favorite book by Simon Clark is Blood Crazy and that book just gets right into the story, I mean within the first five pages a mom is eating her kids face off and the rest of the book is like this. He is also an easy read as well.

[Z0mbieJ0e]

Frank Miller

[Titanosaurus]

I gotta say Bill Watterson. I must have every Calvin and Hobbes collection.

[SpookyJ]

Bentley Little, Richard Matheson, and lately Deborah Leblanc.

[SkullBat308]

I gotta say Bill Watterson. I must have every Calvin and Hobbes collection.

Fuck yeah, me too, ever since i was in grade school I loved Calvin and Hobbes.
Besides that though, either Stephen King or Noam Chomsky.

[WarBeast]

I read a lot of Stephen King and Simon Clark.

I like Simon Clark a little better though, his stories are just as good as Stephen Kings, but much less detail. My favorite book by Simon Clark is Blood Crazy and that book just gets right into the story, I mean within the first five pages a mom is eating her kids face off and the rest of the book is like this. He is also an easy read as well.

Did Clark write a book about some dude fighting people that were turning into duplicates of himself?

If so, I found his style a bit too damn flippant in that book... Seriously, dude watches his mom drown right in front of him, and he's like "OH GOD NO!!!... Okay fuck it.. la de da..."

[The Tall Man]

Stephen King, Michael Crichton, Arthur C. Clarke

[BigFatOgre]

Dean Koontz and Stephen King

[OtepFan616]

Stephen king by far. Having sought out and read damn near everything he has written. I also love J.k's harry potter :weirden:

[SuzAnna]

Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Patricia Cornwell

[FeindMummy]

I have to say that my favorite author of all times is Stephen King, I have first edition of all his work even as Richard Bachman, but more recently I have been finding amusement in Patrica Briggs, she has a unique style and I dig that.

[cmurdur]

I'm fucking stunned. I could have sworn R.L. Stine was a pseudonym because the letters they always give you in the final round of Wheel of Fortune are R, S, T, L, N and E.

[FeindMummy]

I'm proud to say I have the full Goosebumps collection

Dude I had to go up into my dads attic after I read that and I got you beat I got not only all of the Goosebumps up till about 98 but I also got all of the Fear Street Sagas and Series! I even got some Christopher Pike! :dance3:

[DMHead777]

R.L. STINE

Goosebumps for the win. I also have the full collection.

[Halcon Loco]

Stephen King and then S.D. Perry

[SkullBat308]

Stephen King and David Eddings

[choptop2]

Dude I had to go up into my dads attic after I read that and I got you beat I got not only all of the Goosebumps up till about 98 but I also got all of the Fear Street Sagas and Series! I even got some Christopher Pike! :dance3:

I never read any, but I use to love looking at the covers of my older sister's Fear Street books.

[chrsnck]

Stephen King for sure I have read 20+ books/collections by him and I'm in the process of collecting all his hardcovers. R.L Stine would come in second just because I read nothing but the Goosbumps as a kid. Brian Keene would be third (and eventually be boosted to second). I love everything he has written and love how all the stories are connected and leading up to a his 13 volume Labryinth series.

[Primetimeloser]

R. L. STINE

[walk]

Not necessarily books but stories and then it's either Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or H.P. Lovecraft.

[Molean]

Richard Laymon. I have read all his books at least twice and some up to six times over. My all time favourite horror writer EVAR!

[WickedNik]

Darren Shan
V.C. Andrews
Dean Koontz

[Darkgod]

def. RA Savatore

[Macready]

By far Robert R. McCammon for me. Best book I have ever read is Swan Song, which is like The Stand but pulled off in a better way. Once you read the first few pages of this masterpiece you will be hooked.

Also They Thirst is quite possibly the best vampire book ever written in my opinion.

Another book of note is Boy's Life, which is an amazing coming of age tale that has a little bit of everything in it.

Other McCammon books:
Stinger- Out of print.
The Wolf's Hour
Night Boat (Nazi Zombies.)- Out of print.
Ushers Passing (One of the creepiest haunted house books ever written.)- Out of print.
Mine
Mystery Walk
Gone South

[Dexter]

Clive Cussler
Richard Laymon
John Sandford

[Princessarsenic]

Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Anne Rice, Sophie Kinsella, Johnathan Swift, and Nathaniel Hawthorne are a few of my favorites. I'm not sure why they are, they all have differnt styles, but I enjoy them.

[PaganMoon]

Stephen King would easily be the one I've most read. Not sure about after.. I've read a ton of V.C. Andrews [didn't expect to see anyone else say that lol], I'm actually looking into replacing some of the series I used to have from ebay lol Dean Koontz, I read a lot of John Saul back in the day. Right now I'm on the 8th book in the House of Night series.

[Halcon Loco]

Stephen King
S.D. Perry

[Darkgod]

R.A Salvatore

[hallo666ween]

Christopher Moore. I picked up his first book last Feb (Practical Demon Keeping) and ended up reading every book he has written by July. Awesome funny as hell author!

[BigFatOgre]

Dean Koontz seconded by Stephen King

[horrorgeek]

A little predictable but it would have to be Stephen King :D

[Creature]

I am a huge Kurt Vonnegut fan.

[deadcellsociety]

R.A Salvatore

I read a lot of the Drizzt books back in the 90's and couldn't deny the genius of them(hey, I was a D&D geek back then..)
aside from those, STEPHEN KING and CLIVE BARKER.

[Splat]

A little predictable but it would have to be Stephen King :D

Us Ozzies are so predictable :D

[Matty]

A little predictable but it would have to be Stephen King :D

Same here, lady!

[CagedFreak]

Brian Lumley, King, Barker. I also read a lot of James Herbert in my teenager days. I don't get time to read many books these days which is a shame.

[fizgig]

shaun huston, james herbert, and richard laymon. read all their work so its whoevers written the most really. id love to read more but i find myself watching movies instead. shame as i used to get so drawn in to a good book. im just lazy now.