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Fav Authors Anonymous Tue May 10 20:12:00 2011 No.1761789 [Reply] [Original]

Can we get a favorite author thread?

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>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 20:18:00 2011 No.1761807 File: 22 KB, 410x308, tao-lin.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 20:19:00 2011 No.1761810 File: 11 KB, 300x393, ayn-rand-wtl_big.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 20:21:00 2011 No.1761816 >>1761810 >>1761807 Stay class /lit/

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 20:22:00 2011 No.1761820 File: 38 KB, 325x473, Jack-Kirby..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 20:26:00 2011 No.1761834 File: 448 KB, 1200x1600, 0591.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 20:28:00 2011 No.1761840 File: 15 KB, 200x235, dontknowhimhuh.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 20:30:00 2011 No.1761850 File: 21 KB, 239x320, 1289999675852.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 20:31:00 2011 No.1761857 File: 75 KB, 1002x675, Vonnegut.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 20:33:00 2011 No.1761863 >>1761834 is this the guy who wrote that shit makes sense, but it's interesting to see how few visual signifiers separate "neckbeard panderer" from "serious literary novelist"

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 20:45:00 2011 No.1761909 >>1761807 He is my favourite author.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 20:46:00 2011 No.1761911 >>1761909 Mine too

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 20:52:00 2011 No.1761934 >>1761857 awwww yeeeeahh

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 20:53:00 2011 No.1761936 >>1761807 fuck off Tao Lin, stop posting here

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 20:54:00 2011 No.1761940 File: 39 KB, 380x253, sam lipsyte.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 20:58:00 2011 No.1761955 File: 38 KB, 590x700, shakespeare cartoon.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Boo me all you like!

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 21:03:00 2011 No.1761976 Joyce. Suck on it, you philistines.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 21:09:00 2011 No.1762001 File: 44 KB, 400x297, kurt_vonnegut_rip_28752648.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Mr. Vonnegut

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 21:11:00 2011 No.1762010 Vonnegut? Are you niggas serious?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 21:13:00 2011 No.1762017 File: 65 KB, 311x365, FSF.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Fitzgerald.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 21:13:00 2011 No.1762020 File: 38 KB, 360x460, paulo-coelho.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1761789 who is that?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 21:16:00 2011 No.1762032 >>1762020 Robert Anton Wilson

>>	Tuan Jim !Y6d4OyAkDM Tue May 10 21:20:00 2011 No.1762055 File: 148 KB, 368x470, conrad.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] You are all lost in a state of foolishness until you read Conrad.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 21:21:00 2011 No.1762060 I guess I'm lost in a state of foolishness

>>	Tuan Jim !Y6d4OyAkDM Tue May 10 21:23:00 2011 No.1762071 File: 35 KB, 430x629, joseph_conrad.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1762060 You shouldn't even be wasting your time right now on the interwebs with /lit/. Go read Conrad.

>>	jew !!6P/WhzicJTl Tue May 10 21:24:00 2011 No.1762076 >>1762071 I don't think I would say this for any other author, but I wish I could like Conrad.

>>	Tuan Jim !Y6d4OyAkDM Tue May 10 21:28:00 2011 No.1762092 >>1762076 Why can't you like him? He is sort of an every-man's philosopher, in that he interpolates his stories (which are beautiful and dynamic btw) with paragraphs of social abstractions that make you WANT to reread.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 21:31:00 2011 No.1762108 File: 22 KB, 362x503, george-orwell[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Of course.

jew !!6P/WhzicJTl Tue May 10 21:32:00 2011 No.1762114
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>>1762092
I don't know. Maybe I will try Lord Jim again. I didn't like Heart of Darkness that much, but I liked it enough to finish it.

The reason I wish I could like him is because my fave director is a big fan of his.
pic related (werner herzog)

I read some short story of his (can't remember which) but I have this quote written down:
"...he who repairs a ruined house, and dwells in it, proclaims that he is not afraid to live amongst the spirits that haunt the places abandoned by mankind. Such a man can disturb the course of fate by glances or words..."

Anonymous Tue May 10 21:36:00 2011 No.1762125
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NUNS fret not at their convent's narrow room,
And hermits are contented with their cells,
And students with their pensive citadels;
Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom,
Sit blithe and happy; bees that soar for bloom,
High as the highest peak of Furness fells,
Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells:
In truth the prison unto which we doom
Ourselves no prison is: and hence for me,
In sundry moods, 'twas pastime to be bound
Within the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground;
Pleased if some souls (for such there needs must be)
Who have felt the weight of too much liberty,
Should find brief solace there, as I have found.

Tuan Jim !Y6d4OyAkDM Tue May 10 21:38:00 2011 No.1762138
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>>1762114
That's from "The Lagoon" If you want something that isn't so confounded in terms of narrative style, try reading The Secret Agent. Most people seem to get turned off of Conrad because of his strange narration, and that one is very linear. It's also a great book to read in our post-9/11 world because of the similarities between Conrad's descriptions of Terrorism and how we see the concept today. Pretty crazy actually...

>>	jew !!6P/WhzicJTl Tue May 10 21:43:00 2011 No.1762152 File: 9 KB, 144x175, m.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1762138 I'll try to get my hands on it, thanks.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 21:48:00 2011 No.1762171 File: 78 KB, 350x350, bret-easton-ellis..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Bret Easton Ellis Have read every book he's published.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 21:49:00 2011 No.1762176 >>1762171 I lol'd.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 21:53:00 2011 No.1762195 >>1762176 He's one of my favourite authors, and he's quite enjoyable to read.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 22:00:00 2011 No.1762212 >>1762138 it's also really funny

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 22:01:00 2011 No.1762221 >>1762010 What's wrong with Vonnegut?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 22:05:00 2011 No.1762238 File: 79 KB, 350x489, sandman.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Gaiman. I don't care if you think his work is shallow, i do to, but he got got me into reading. I didn't know it could be so fun. Thanks Englishbro.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 22:08:00 2011 No.1762250 >>1762238 You going to watch his episode of Doctor Who this week? Shit is going to be awesome.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 22:09:00 2011 No.1762255 >>1762250 I've actually never seen a single episode of Doctor Who, ever. Nothing against it, it's just such a large franchise and i wouldn't know where to start and what to avoid.

Anonymous Tue May 10 22:18:00 2011 No.1762285

>>1762255
If you ever did want to start watching it, then you'd be fine starting with the new series, hell even around season 5 would be fine. The old series has its fans, and if you like that sort of classic cheesyness its fine, but you don't need to watch any of it.

Anonymous Tue May 10 22:19:00 2011 No.1762290

>>1762255
Understandable. If you are interested his episode looks to be mostly stand alone, especially since he planned for it to be in last season. The trailer feels a lot like it could be one of his short stories.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZAVJOEGnsw

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 22:21:00 2011 No.1762298 >>1762020 Philip K. Dick, Great underestimated Sci-Fi reality author. Read Valis or Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 22:21:00 2011 No.1762303 Don't feel like getting a picture, but Chuck Palahniuk. Hatas gonna hate.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 22:26:00 2011 No.1762324 >>1762303 Fuck your shit

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 22:30:00 2011 No.1762341 David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, and William Shakespeare

>>	Tuan Jim !Y6d4OyAkDM Tue May 10 22:31:00 2011 No.1762346 >>1762303 Oh...this does not even need hate to be socially condemned as a pile of shit...fuck, that guy sucks.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 22:32:00 2011 No.1762353 >>1762341 they should fight crime together tommy p summons their ghosts via haunted D&D dice or something when he needs their help. spoiler alert: shakespeare was a hot chick

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 22:33:00 2011 No.1762354 Ayn Rand of course

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 22:34:00 2011 No.1762355 File: 23 KB, 298x387, TWEEST.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1762353 WHAT A TWEEST

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 22:35:00 2011 No.1762362 >>1762355 M. Night Shyamaynrand oh god what have I created

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 22:37:00 2011 No.1762370 >>1762362 A=B, WHAT A TWEEST!

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 22:45:00 2011 No.1762398 File: 98 KB, 1600x1089, Camus2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1761789

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 22:46:00 2011 No.1762400 >>1761840 You ass.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 23:01:00 2011 No.1762446 File: 18 KB, 311x390, djuna_barnes.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Joyce, Conrad, and Tao can suck these tits.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 23:07:00 2011 No.1762465 File: 18 KB, 445x219, strindberg8.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I championed feminism, then called women worthless sub-humans about ten years later. Oh, then I kidnapped my daughter and performed magic on her. MAYBE!

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 23:09:00 2011 No.1762470 >>1762446 Sauce? She kind gives me a boner.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 23:23:00 2011 No.1762525 >>1762470 Google Djuna Barnes

>>	Anonymous Tue May 10 23:44:00 2011 No.1762634 File: 511 KB, 1920x1200, ikaface.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] pic related

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 00:00:00 2011 No.1762701 Couldn't get through Nightwood. Tao Lin's books too expensive. Joyce causes arguments. I'm going with Donald Barthelme.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 00:02:00 2011 No.1762716 >>1762701 not my #1 but "the joker's greatest triumph" is one of my favorite short stories and he's generally undermentioned on here, daps

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 00:04:00 2011 No.1762726 i'm kinda surprised he's never mentioned here. my undergrad creative writing classes were all barthelme wannabes + lorrie moore wannabes

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 00:06:00 2011 No.1762736 >>1762726 I don't know either of them, but there's a certain crowd of writers that are super popular within creative writing circles yet rarely come up elsewhere. I am guessing they are of that sort?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 00:07:00 2011 No.1762739 >>1762726 is she any good? i have a friend who's literarily inclined who violently hates a gate at the stairs but he has a long history of being wrong about books

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 00:09:00 2011 No.1762746 >>1762726 I mentioned Barthelme a few times before

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 00:11:00 2011 No.1762748 >>1761857 This guy

>>	Anonymous Wed May 11 00:18:00 2011 No.1762764 >>1762739 i like her very much, but a gate at the stairs was a huge misfire. stick to the short stories

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