Who would it be?

[sarahstaby]

So, I was wondering if any of you could pick an author/writer to write like who would it be?  and why?  We're not talking plagiarism here.  Just if the writing fairy were to bump you on the noggin with her pen/wand and give you someone's talent whose would it be?

I think I'd pick Orson Scott Card (maybe), minus his passion for the twisted.

Any other takers?

[Latro]

I enjoy Orson Scott Card a lot also but I'd probably say C.S. Lewis.  In addition to writing entertaining novels his non-fiction work is also excellent.

Orson Scott Card's books are great but I don't like how he builds up one character in one book and then in a parallel book he brings them down.  I know he's only trying to show that the world through different eyes is a different world but come on.. Ender > Bean any day of the week...

[Labyrinthine]

Frank Herbert, he manages to write a lot of interesting stuff while keeping it philosophical.

Or day I say, Dostoevsky? I wish I could ramble like him and still pass it off as a novel.

[sarahstaby]

philosophical, shmilosophical.  I like to be entertained.  I can only handle reading so much of Ayn Rand's endless recitals, blah.

And yeah, Ender definitely > Bean.  C.S. Lewis is a great choice, I wish I'd thought of him first.

[DeFy]

orson scott card- ender shouldve owned beanz
brian jacques
cs.lewis
jr r tolkien
dan brown(davinci code<angels and demons)

[alphadecka]

pffft. dan brown. while a good story teller it stops there.

Dickens or Ginsberg. literary heavyweights.

or maybe steinbeck cuz then i could dumb it down and ppl might be able to enjoy reading it.