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Steinbeck
Joyce
Vonnegut
Twain
Dostoevsky
Camus
Hugo
Lovecraft
Maugham
Hesse
Mann
Wilde
Eliot
Austen
Dickens
Thackeray
Woolf
Gogol
Hamsun
Hardy
Faulkner
Gaines
Nabokov
Wallace
Zola
Pynchon
Stendhal
Dumas
Cervantes
Bulgakov

Does life get better?

>> No.1128382

You forgot Flaubert.

>> No.1128391
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1128391

>ctrl+f
>Celine
>no entries

>> No.1128397

>>1128391
I read Journey to the End of the Night. I liked it. He is on the list, now.

:-)

>> No.1128394

>>1128382

And Chekhov. And Borges.

>> No.1128393

>>1128382
I read Sentimental Education, and I loved it. Apparently /lit/erates hate Madame, though. Should I read it?

>> No.1128403

>>1128394
>Chekhov
I like his short stories and short novels. I've yet to read his plays, though. I love the stories I've read, though.
>Borges
I still need to read some of his stuff. Recommendations?

>> No.1128404

Salinger
Proust
Wallace (D.F.)
TOLSTOY... i'm moving on

>> No.1128406

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>> No.1128407

>>1128393

If you liked Sentimental Education I can't imagine you wouldn't like Madame Bovary.

>> No.1128412

>>1128404
I mentioned Wallace. I like Saligner, but I'm of the opinion that's he's overrated (at least for Catcher). I've read his other three books as well, and I like 'em a lot.

>Proust.
See my response to Borges.

>Tolstoy
I dig this man.

[FYI: I just mashed together a list of some of my favorite writers to get exactly this sort of discussion going, but that doesn't mean I haven't read anything else. Just thought I'd point that out. Anyway, thanks a lot, /lit/!]

>> No.1128413

Good list overall. You should really get some Joseph Conrad into your life as well.

>> No.1128416

>>1128407
If you say so.

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>>1128413
I'm currently reading pic-related.

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1128422

>ctrl + f
>kafka
>mfw nothing

>> No.1128429

>>1128422
OP here. Your pic is mfw when I noticed that.


Definitely my bad. I read and loved his collected stories, The Trial, and The Castle. I love that dude. Definitely on that list. If I hadn't read him already, life could DEFINITELY be better.

>> No.1128438

>>1128365

...And yet no Shakespeare.

>> No.1128459

I'll bump myself with some other guys I like. (*=I only read one book by the writer).

J. M. Coetzee
Turgenev
Lermontov
Hemingway
Fitzgerald*
Aldous Huxley*
Orwell
Kawabata*
Kazantzakis*
Sinclair Lewis
Lowry
Orwell
Pushkin
Amy Tan
Burgess

>> No.1128460

>>1128438
That's because all the authors in OP are Americans.

>> No.1128462

>>1128460

>fry_squinting.png

>> No.1128466

>>1128460
I went through and counted once (error is plausible). I counted eight writers. That's nothing near the majority.

>> No.1128475

Dr. Seuss you elitist fart.

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>>1128460

I'm going to assume you slipped up or something.

>> No.1128684

BRADBURY
JOYCE
KEROUAC
DF WALLACE
WOOLF
WS BURROUGHS
RA WILSON
LF BAUM
LOVECRAFT
PYNCHON
FS FITZGERALD
SALINGER
DAVID MITCHELL
BORGES
MURAKAMI


F T W

>> No.1128688

>>1128406

Apparently not for you.

>> No.1128710

>>1128684

Was loving this list until no Hemingway.
Rectify immediately.

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1128722

What's some good travel writing you e/lit/ists could suggest?

I checked /lit/'s recommended reading already, and no dice...

>> No.1128748

>>1128365
>One thing they all have in common
homosexual themes and use of gay symbolism the more you know

>> No.1128784

>>1128722
Right now I'm working my way through Babylon by Bus. It is amazing. I strongly recommend it, with two exceptions.

1) If you're conservative. You will probably not like the book if you are conservative (but please, let's not start a retarded political flame war).

2) The book is only partly about travel. For a lot of the book (but definitely not all of it!), the narrators are stationary in Iraq. Still, there is a very strong focus on the sense of place, and their attempts to wander around Bagdad and get acquainted with their surroundings.

So, if you take exception to that recommendation, maybe Blue Highways, or that book by the Scottish guy that walked across Afghanistan? I haven't read either of those, but I'm comfortably recommending them because they both come highly recommended to me from a number of sources that I trust.

>> No.1128944

Burroughs
Kesey
Bukowski
Fante
Murakami (ryu not haruki)

>> No.1128954

Both Haruki and Ryu Murakami
Yukio Mishima
Brothers Strugatsky
Isaac Asimov
Douglas Coupland
Chuck Palahniuk

>> No.1128974

William Faulkner
Tennessee Williams
Pierre Drieu la Rochelle
Slavoj Zizek
Michel Foucault
Ranier Rilke
Gabrielle Garcia Lorca
Georges Bataille

>> No.1128990

>>1128365

try john barth or richard brautigan

>> No.1128994

>>1128404
>TOLSTOY... i'm moving on

At least you included Dumas though.
You forgot Stoker.

>> No.1129795

>>1128944
Thanks for point out Kesey. Also, I'm glad you distinguished between the Murakamis. I am not familiar with the rest of the writers. Recommendations are welcome.

>>1128684
Some of those writers (*cough* Bradbury *cough*) are, in my opinion, overrated. I also posted quite a few of the writers you listed.

>>1128954
I'm neither a fan of CP nor Asimov.

>>1128974
WHY DOES EVERYBODY KEEP SAYING FAULKNER?!?