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If you were to pick five authors to read their works for the rest of your life who would it be and why?

>> No.17814655

>>17814617
>Frog image
>low quality shitpost
Yep, it checks out

>> No.17814662

>>17814617
Georges Simenon. He'a got so many you'd never run out.
Marquis de Sade. You've got to coom somehow.
William Faulkner. He never gets old and all his books are really comfy. Plus I'm southern and love modernism.
Balzac he's also got so many you'd never run out, and he's great.
Ross Macdonald. Lew Archer is based.

>> No.17814670

homer
plato
aeschylus
shakespeare
whitman

>> No.17814698

>>17814617
Homer
Joyce
Hemingway
Plato
Shakespeare

>> No.17814702

jane austen
william faulkner
charles dickens
william shakespeare
thomas pynchon

all authors i've read some of that i love, but have loads more i've never read to enjoy for the first time

>> No.17814719

>>17814655
Oops! Sorry man I thought this was place to discuss books and such. Sorry it won’t happen again

>> No.17814725

Raymond Chandler
James Ellroy
Dostoevsky
Sapkowski
Phillip K. Dick
What can I say I'm easy to please

>> No.17814740

>>17814725
>>17814702
Shit Pynchon's good, I'll swap Sapkowski out for him

>> No.17814770

>>17814617
>James Joyce
>William Butler Yeats
>Ted Hughes
>Percy Shelley
>Samuel Beckett

>> No.17814795

>>17814617
Mark Twain
Steinbeck
Thoreau
Emerson
Faulkner

Each author has their fair share of stuff to read. All of it is enjoyable and quality. Each author has important lessons to teach in their writing and write beautifully.

>> No.17814854

>>17814617
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Seneca
Beatrix Potter
Thomas Sowell
Marcus Aurelius

>> No.17814884

>>17814854
Worst list ITT but good point about Montaigne

>> No.17814918

terry pratchett
terry pratchett
terry pratchett
terry pratchett
terry pratchett

>> No.17815239

Balzac
Dickens
Christie
Gaddis
Faulkner

first three for pragmatic reasons

>> No.17815274

>>17814884
It very well could be the worst list ITT, but those authors would do me very well for a life time of studying.

>> No.17815276

Twain, Steinbeck, and Faulkner would be my first three choices like >>17814795 said, but I need two more writers whose work is as deep as possible if they're all I'm going to read for the rest of my life. I'm thinking Joyce as a fourth option but I'm out of ideas

>> No.17815301

>>17814617
>Shakespeare because he’s one of the greatest writers of all time and has enough works to keep you entertained for a lifetime
>Goethe for the same reason as Shakespeare
>Schopenhauer because he is my favorite philosopher and his writings bring me comfort
>Proust because you could read In Search of Lost Time a hundred times and still get something new from it every single time
I don’t know who I would pick as my fifth choice.

>> No.17815514

>>17814617
Shakespeare
Plato
Hegel
Heidegger
Beckett

>> No.17815586

>>17814617
soseki
mishima
kawabata
basho
issa kobayashi

>> No.17815691

Maupassant
Pessoa
Balzac
Plutarch
Seneca

>> No.17815711

>>17814617
Kant
Hegel
Heidegger
Plato
Aristotle

>> No.17815725

>>17814617
>If you were to pick five authors to read their works for the rest of your life who would it be and why?
I couldn't do that. I have a pretty low knowledge about fiction and poetry and I think y should pick some good writersm, not good philosophers.

The fact that the best writer I know is Cioran makes me sick -I mean, surely there is a lot of better writers there that I haven't read. I don't even like him, he is pretty boring to me (not that I think what he writes isn't good; is the fact that I think that he has almost no errors what make him that boring to me).

>> No.17815737

>>17814617
God(basically all sacred texts)
Eckhart
Dante
Guenon
Schuon

>> No.17815766

so according to this thread so far, the best five are
>William Faulkner
>William Shakespeare
>Plato
>Honoré de Balzac
and a toss up between Homer and Hegel

>> No.17815767

>>17815586
Almost exactly what my list is. Nice.

>> No.17815791

Anonymous :)

>> No.17815806
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17815806

William Blake: just absolutely love him and I don’t know how many times I’ve read his complete works
Shakespeare: Large range of high quality
Goethe: see above
Abhinavagupta:enough philosophical depth that you can never be done with him.
Hegel: see above.

>> No.17815918

>>17814617
L. F. Celine
Musil
Beckett
Melville
Walser

>> No.17816359

Joyce
Shakespeare
Tolkien
All sacred texts (Hindu if I had to choose)

For the fifth one, I'll have a diet coke instead

>> No.17817187

Paul
Luke
Matthew
Mark
John

>> No.17817246

>>17814617
Tolstoy
Nabokov
Mishima
Eco
La Guin

>> No.17817272

>>17814655
it really wasnt that much of a shitpost...

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>>17814617
>If you were to pick five authors
Working on which ones now. L8r

>> No.17817538

>>17817430
take your time we already know you don't know how to read

>> No.17817664

>>17814617
Hindu God Krishna
Buddha
Hillary Clinton
Kanye West
AOC

>> No.17818658

daddy nabby (beautiful)
joyce (havent read any. has a lot)
gordon lish (personal fav)
burroughs or hg wells (creative)
beckett (popular choice here. must be for a reason)

>>17815791
fuck great choice

>> No.17818725

David Thorpe
Guillaume Prévost
Rick Riordan
Frank Herbert
Eoin Colfer

>> No.17818743

>>17815711
>no Art
bugman

>> No.17818771

>>17817664
do not redeem

>> No.17818847

Dumas
Dosto
Tolkien
Blake
Aquinas

>> No.17818859

>>17814617
SHAKESPEARE, HOMER, PLATO, NIETZSCHE, KVJ

>> No.17818878

>>17814617
KJV
Borges
McCarthy
Gene wolfe
Nietzsche

>> No.17818925

>>17818658
you're one of my favorite posters on here, i started reading lish because of you and be quickly became one of my favorites as well

>> No.17818960

>>17814918
Based.

>> No.17818977

>>17814617
Unless I plan to kill myself after reading the five authors, that sounds like a terrible life, where you want to read, but all you have is the same old thing you read 20 times already or you feel like you've read it already.

>> No.17818983

Kafka
Gogol
Orwell
Camus
Thoreau

>> No.17819112

>>17818925
>you're one of my favorite posters on here
u too. ill print this and show it to my mom
>i started reading lish because of you
great, did u catch autism? what did u read? im gonna start posting lish threads periodically

>> No.17819122

>>17819112
We have enough kike threads spam already

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>>17814617
>The inspired Word of God
>Philip K. Dick
>Bill Watterson (aka the complete collected Calvin & Hobbes)
>J.R.R. Tolkien
>C.S. Lewis
I would maybe swap out the last 2 for Jack Kerouac, and Hemingway.

>> No.17819177

>>17814617
Enrique Medina, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Frances Hodgson Burnett and... I don't know, Arthur Machen?

>> No.17819179

>>17819122
never enough

>> No.17819253

>Beckett
>Borges
>Ballard
>Bernhard
>Blake

Because the B is for "based"

>> No.17819463

Shakespeare
Tolstoy
Borges
Jünger
Houellebecq
Weird mix but I like them for very different reasons.