Who are your favorite authors and Why?

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I don't read that much unfortunately. The only thing I really am comfortable doing at the moment is reading short stories by H.P. Lovecraft (which is all I've read for the past year or so, extracurricular I mean). But that's only because I have such a huge backlog of games and movies. When I have nothing to do I can go through books quite easily, I actually have a decent collection of them. My favorite book is as always Moby-Dick.