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Post your 10 fave authors, then people can judge you! Yay! Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 Thu Jan 20 07:48:55 2011 No.1475708 [Reply] [Original]

In no order...

Flannery o'Connor
Margaret Atwood
JD Salinger
Isaac Asimov
Stephen King (lol)
Isabel Allende (also lol)
Huraki Marukami
Victor Hugo
Ayn Rand (lolol)
Margaret Mitchell

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 07:51:55 2011 No.1475719 >>1475708 >Stephen King >Ayn Rand 0/10

>>	Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 Thu Jan 20 07:54:55 2011 No.1475725 The list has plenty of 'serious' authors. What about o'Connor or Salinger? Or Hugo?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 07:55:55 2011 No.1475728 >>1475719 >>1475708 Consider yourself judged, OP.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 08:06:55 2011 No.1475750 Lovecraft Poe- I was expecting something different before I started reading his stuff, but he is HILARIOUS. Nick Cave, I'm gonna include his music in this too. Stephen King, because fuck it. And that's about all I can think of right now.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 08:24:55 2011 No.1475778 In no particular order: Thomas Harris Anne Bronte Isaac Asimov Margaret Atwood Robin McKinley Terry Pratchett Jane Austen Yevgeny Zamyatin Fyodor Dostoyevsky Neil Gaiman

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 08:33:55 2011 No.1475795 Montaigne Faulkner Anne Carson John D'Agata Matt Hart Dean Young Fernando Pessoa Simone Weil Maggie Nelson Melville

>>	Truman Capote !kwxizAOFlk Thu Jan 20 08:36:55 2011 No.1475805 File: 7 KB, 268x188, naboo..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Tolstoy Shakespeare Kafka Goethe Camus Orwell Kundera J.D. Salinger Joyce Capote

>>	mfaguy !uxQNoVxVFg Thu Jan 20 08:40:55 2011 No.1475810 >>1475750 Have you read The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Poe? If not, do it. Birth metaphors all up in that ish.

Anonymous Thu Jan 20 08:44:55 2011 No.1475829

Can do you 15, but not 10.

So here:
>Vasily Grossman
>James Salter
>Katherine Mansfield
>Sybille Bedford
>Hubert Selby, Jr.
>Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
>Vladimir Nabokov
>Stendhal
>Herman Hesse
>Guy de Maupassant
>Anton Chekov
>Mikhail Bulgakov
>J.D. Salinger
>Joseph Conrad
>Shakespeare

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 08:47:55 2011 No.1475836 >>1475708 >>1475778 >>1475795 Stop mixing the good with the bad, you dicks. How am I supposed to judge you?

>>	mfaguy !uxQNoVxVFg Thu Jan 20 08:53:55 2011 No.1475856 >>1475836 Who's your idea of bad in >>1475795

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 09:58:55 2011 No.1475991 >>1475836 Don't mix your shitty preference for authors with other people's, hmkay?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 10:23:55 2011 No.1476042 Umberto Eco Roald Dahl Alan Moore Ursula Le Guin Anonymous (copypasta makes me giggle myself to sleep) Kahil Gibran that's it, no reason to do an arbitrary number

>>	Truman Capote !kwxizAOFlk Thu Jan 20 11:01:55 2011 No.1476115 bump

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 11:16:55 2011 No.1476145 Kafka Salinger Baudelaire Remarque Orwell Mayakovsky Lenin Wells Hermann Hesse Saint-Exupery

>>	Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 Thu Jan 20 11:30:55 2011 No.1476172 Truman Capote was a terrible writer. Breakfast at Tiifany's is one of the boring things I have ever read. Twilight is probably better.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 11:33:55 2011 No.1476178 >>1476172 Capote is horribly dated. He really did write for a bygone era of readers. I'm sure he'll drop out of importance in the next decade or two. Oh well.

>>	Truman Capote !kwxizAOFlk Thu Jan 20 11:37:55 2011 No.1476187 File: 152 KB, 474x338, truman.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1476172 How interesting.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 11:37:55 2011 No.1476188 Victor Hugo Steinbeck Hemingway Sylvia Plath Shakespeare Harper Lee Jack London Mark Twain E.A. Cummings Thoreau

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 11:42:55 2011 No.1476200 Do people on /lit/ actually like Salinger? Every time he's mentioned, there's a ton of "hurr durr angsty teenager" bullshit. I'm happy to see this development.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 11:44:55 2011 No.1476207 >>1476200 I like Salinger. I think his short stories are among the finest I've ever read.

>>	Truman Capote !kwxizAOFlk Thu Jan 20 11:45:55 2011 No.1476213 >>1476178 As long as there are tru-crime novels he will be relevant.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 11:46:55 2011 No.1476216 >>1476213 No. He really won't.

>>	/Lit/'s Lovely Taiga !Y4SoHX4AQw Thu Jan 20 11:47:55 2011 No.1476220 File: 23 KB, 320x273, Smile.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] you all have highschool tastes

>>	Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 Thu Jan 20 11:48:55 2011 No.1476222 Nine Stories - good The Catcher in the Rye - bad RHTRBCASAI - okay Franny and Zooey - very good

>>	Truman Capote !kwxizAOFlk Thu Jan 20 11:49:55 2011 No.1476225 >>1476216 i think he will, In Cold Blood is always recommended by this very board for people with journalistic tastes and aspirations.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 11:49:55 2011 No.1476224 >>1476216 Of course he will, In Cold Blood is a a tremendous piece of work. >>1476207 /agree. I rate Salinger as one of the best authors I've ever read for his short stories alone. In comparison, his novels are lacking.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 11:51:55 2011 No.1476234 Yasunari Kawabata Ivan Turgenev HG Wells Natsume Soseki Paul Auster Peter S Beagle Italo Calvino Junichiro Tanizaki Terry Pratchett Osamu Dazai

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 11:53:55 2011 No.1476237 >>1476220 PLEASE tell me someone who posts the same stupid cartoons all day is calling other people's tastes high school. Please, please, let this be true.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 11:55:55 2011 No.1476240 >>1476237 you haven't been here very long have you?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 11:57:55 2011 No.1476245 >>1476240 As much as I wish I could claim that I haven't wasted that much time here, (being new isn't bad, you guys. It sort of means someone has, or has had, a life) no. I've been here for quite a while.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 11:58:55 2011 No.1476247 >>1476245 >thinks being on 4chan = not having a life So, what's happened to yours?

Anonymous Thu Jan 20 11:59:55 2011 No.1476250

>>1476222
Huh. I would actually rank those works the exact opposite that you have them. Franny and Zooey never worked for me, I thought it was his worst. The stories are all pretty great. And I think The Catcher in the Rye is the best thing he ever did.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 12:01:55 2011 No.1476253 >>1476247 >thinks being on 4chan = possibly having a life Like posting to strangers is what someone would opt to do if they had anything in the world better to spend their time on. Get over yourself.

Sadly I have no judgements Anonymous Thu Jan 20 12:01:55 2011 No.1476256

I just like to read, I don't really judge, and it looks like most on here are much more well-read than I.
Susan Cooper (the Dark is Rising sequence is my all-time fave from childhood)
JRR Tolkien
Agatha Christie
Stephen King (earlier stuff)
Alice Walker
Amy Tan
Toni Morrison
Trevanian
Isabel Allende
Umberto Eco

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 12:02:55 2011 No.1476260 Franz Kafka Hermann Hesse David Foster Wallace William Faulkner Albert Camus George Eliot Thomas Pynchon Ivan Turgenev Fyodor Dostoevsky Oscar Wilde

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 12:04:55 2011 No.1476267 I've only read a few bits from most authors so I cannot judge However, my favourite author is W Somerset Maugham

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 12:04:55 2011 No.1476266 >>1476253 I like getting book recommendations, trying out arguments, reading different perspectives. It's not a social outlet. Frankly, it sounds like you're a little butthurt about something.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 12:05:55 2011 No.1476270 >>1476267 Brofist.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 12:06:55 2011 No.1476274 >>1476266 Frankly, it sounds like you're delusional.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 12:08:55 2011 No.1476277 >>1476274 Maybe a I am, my cheesecake. lolololol

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 12:16:55 2011 No.1476293 >>1476253 wtf are you so bitter about? and why are you here? I can't find anyone else to talk to books about my life that's why I am here, and the recommendations of books are usually pretty good.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 12:19:55 2011 No.1476303 >>1476277 You are the strawberry of my loins, the cherry of my cup, the USB-port of my pnatheon. Take 'em off, yo.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 12:20:55 2011 No.1476307 >>1476303 Right click, safely remove external devices. My data is safe within you,

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 12:24:55 2011 No.1476314 >>1476220 You are the most boring tripcode user here, wow. You're even more boring than that brianherbert guy

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 12:35:55 2011 No.1476330 Reading is wasted on a few. Then again being 12 is an uncertain time.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 12:38:55 2011 No.1476332 File: 90 KB, 666x800, belichick.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1476225 >>1476216 >>1476213 >>1476178 >yfw In Cold Blood gets taught in ever nonfiction program as one of the more important works of the genre

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 12:45:55 2011 No.1476350 Salinger Gene Wolfe Huxley Pynchon Lawrence But this is coming from a guy who also liked The Fountainhead :) Not the philosophical bullshit so much, but at the time I found the story rather engrossing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 13:18:55 2011 No.1476422 >Stephen King >J.K. Rowling >Dean Koontz >Freidrich Nietsczhe >Ann Rand >Tom Clancy >J.R.Tolkien >William Shakespeare >Dan Brown >Cormac Macarthy

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