Your Top 5 Authors of all time

[SpallaCamiccia]

Originally Posted by 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")







Opus Dei!!!

La Obra Amigo.

 

[Thomas]

Originally Posted by bunnyoswaldo

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

Hmmm, I thought I saw it somewhere on the list, and it stuck with me because I read ACaD years ago and remembered disliking it intensely. Whether I might have the same reaction today I can't say for sure, since Iammatt turned me around on Dostoyevsky a while back.

 

[epb]

W. Somerset Maugham
PG Wodehouse
Dashiell Hammett
Raymond Chandler
Lawrence Block

That's in no particular order, and based on the fact that I re-read a lot of their work. Elmore Leonard is way up there as well - great writer for character and dialogue.

 

[RSS]

Originally Posted by bunnyoswaldo

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

Who could forget Myrna Minx?

 

[Da Luis Vuitton Don]

Hans Christan Anderson....
homer..
3-2pac
4
5

 

[RSS]

^^^ Not the author/editor of the Louis Vuitton catalogue?

 

[Da Luis Vuitton Don]

Originally Posted by RSS

^^^ Not the author/editor of the Louis Vuitton catalogue?


i just like the end result.authors/designers= irrelevant...

*regrets making this username*

 

[RSS]

Originally Posted by Da Luis Vuitton Don

regrets making this username
I honestly think it's one of the best of all time. It caused me to consider Hermes Simplex ... as a sock puppet, of course.

 

[sartorialism]

Tolstoy
Chekhov
Dostoevski
Steinbeck
Nabokov

 

[scurvyfreedman]

Both fiction and non-fiction included:

Alexandre Dumas
Alexander Hamilton
Phillip K. Dick
Homer
Bill James

 

[ari.seoul]

based on the stuff I've read ...

RA Salvatore
Piers Anthony
Terry Brooks
Agatha Christie

5th one's hard ... Homer, Dumas, Robert Munsch

and if we could count comic book writer, like to add Brian Michael Bendis

 

[husbands]

3 in each category:

Fiction:
David Foster Wallace
Ray Carver
Richard Yates

Poetry:
John Berryman
Robert Lowell
John Ashbery

Nonfiction:
Bill Nichols
Ray Carney
Richard Boothby

 

[rach2jlc]



*Flaubert (Sentimental Education and his Correspondence)
*Norman Lewis (Voices of the Old Sea, In Sicily, The Missionaries, Jackdaw Cake)
*Philip Roth (Sabbath's Theatre, Operation Sherlock, American Pastoral)
*Raymond Chandler (basically everything)
*Andre Gide (Lafcadio's Adventures, The Counterfeiters, The Journals)

Forgot that I'd even posted in this thread, but was interested to see that my list more or less has stayed the same.

In the interim since posting, I've come to appreciate the (nonfiction) work of Vollmann and David Foster Wallace, who showed up here on several lists. George Orwell's essays (published together in four volumes still readily available) also can't be beat; those of us hit over the head with ANIMAL FARM and 1984 in high school should try to forget and check out his essays.

Not many women on our lists... but Louise Erdrich (LOVE MEDICINE), Margaret Atwood (CAT'S EYE and others), and Joyce Carol Oates are worth a try.