Your Top 5 Authors of all time

[Cotillion]

Originally Posted by thekunk07

^trolling?

With William Burroughs, Noam Chomsky and John Grisham picks I would hope its a troll and not serious lol

 

[AntiHero84]

I haven't read any one author extensively, but I do have favorite books that lead me to believe a particular author is my favorite... If that makes any sense.

William Faulkner (Light in August, The Sound and the Fury)
Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises)
Charles Bukowski (Ham on Rye, South of No North, Slouching Towards Nirvana, Pretty much anything this guy wrote)
Raymond Chandler
Hunter S. Thompson (The Rum Diaries, Hell's Angels, Fear and Loathing)

I would like to say John Steinbeck as well, but I haven't read nearly as much as I should have... Same with Herman Hesse.

Mark Twain also gets an honorable mention. Seriously too many authors to name.

 

[ppjjmm]

Jack Kerouac
Hemingway
Kurt Vonnegut
David Foster Wallace
George Orwell

 

[Thomas]

I'm sure to revise this list a few times, but here goes:

Christopher Moore
Salman Rushdie
Christopher Hitchens
Ernest Hemingway

That last one's pretty uncertain, though. Murakami? Buckley? Pratchett? I could make a case for any of them, actually.

 

[LabelKing]

John Cheever
Thomas Mann
Henry Green
Paul Bowles
Jane Bowles

 

[Steve Smith]

Originally Posted by ArteEtLabore14

Is this a list of the five authors we enjoy reading the most, or a list of the five authors who we consider to be "the best?"

Neither. This is SF. List the five authors which make you seem most sophisticated. Bonus points for obscure choices.

 

[Telefonica]

Originally Posted by tagutcow

Ugh, I haven't read a novel or short story in forever. Here's my own dilettante list:

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lawrence Sterne
Franz Kafka
Andre Gide
Jorge Luis Borges

I also seem to recall liking Thomas Hardy, Thomas de Quincey, and Dante Alighieri, but that was omg soooooo long ago.

Nice to see Kafka finally make someone's list. I love Kafka. When I read his work, I feel like I'm dreaming. No other author can do that.

 

[bunnyoswaldo]

I haven't seen John Kennedy Toole mentioned....A Confederacy of Dunces is an american classic

 

[Fuuma]

Cesare Pavese
Georges Bataille
LÃ

o Malet
Saint-John Perse
Leon Tolstoï

Or something, it's actually sorta hard to decide like that. Arrgggh I forgot Flaubert (sentimental education might be the most perfect book evaarrr) and Gide.

 

[Pantisocrat]

John Steinbeck
Orhan Pamuk
Zhu Xi
Carl Jung
Sophocles

 

[SpallaCamiccia]

Platon

San Escrivá de Balaguer

Ludwing von Misses

Nixon

Stan Lee

 

[Fuuma]

For spallacamiccia, who I got on ignore but anyway:

Louis-Ferdinand CÃ

line
Pierre Drieu la Rochelle
Robert Brasillach
Paul Claudel
Emil Cioran

(note, I didn’t cheat cause I listed good writers well I guess Brasillach is debatable)

 

[SpallaCamiccia]

Originally Posted by Fuuma

For spallacamiccia, who I got on ignore but anyway:

Louis-Ferdinand CÃ

line
Pierre Drieu la Rochelle
Robert Brasillach
Paul Claudel
Emil Cioran

(note, I didn't cheat cause I listed good writers well I guess Brasillach is debatable)



Nice, I don´t know any of those frenchs. Honestly I prefer jewish writers as Stan Lee.

If you have me on ignore, how is that you read me, I got you!

 

[Avocat]

There are a great many excellent novels of various genres already listed above (being excellent reads all); and to which I'll add the following: Classics (Politico & Philosophy) Plato John Stuart Mill Adam Smith John Locke Thomas Hobbes Honourable Mention: Friedrich Nietzsche, Edmund Burke, Aristotle, and so many others. Classics (Literary): John Steinbeck Charles Dickens (+1) Edgar Allan Poe (+1) Leonard Wibberley Farley Mowat Honourary Mention: William Shakespeare (and many others here that have already been mentioned). Other: Peter Wright Hunter S. Thompson (+1) Margaret Atwood Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. John Grisham And Sci-Fi & Fantasy: Douglas Adams, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Philip K. Dick, and Isaac Asimov (among others, too).

 

[Jarandas]

Mine:

- Chuck Palahniuck (every book but "Tell All" was a bit of a dissapointment)

- Dean Koontz (airport reading, but good, IMO)

- Bret Easton Ellis (obviously)

-

Hemingway

- Michael Crichton (I enjoyed "Next")

Originally Posted by SpallaCamiccia

Platon

San Escrivá de Balaguer

Ludwing von Misses

Nixon

Stan Lee

Opus Dei!!!