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Who is your favorite writer and what are your top 3 books?

>> No.20214496

Bakker (pbuh)
Bakker
Bakker

>> No.20214502
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20214502

idk honestly

the satyricon
anaeid
odyssey

>> No.20214526

>>20214502
Very good. You may continue to post on my board.
>>20214496
Get lost.

>> No.20214858

>collected poems of Dylan Thomas
>Envy by Yuri Olesha
>Acts of Worship by Yukio Mishima

Favorite writer currently is Nabokov. He rights tragedies like they were comedies.

>> No.20214870

>>20214858
>Name a writer better than Nabokov.
>Pro tip: you can't

>> No.20214874
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20214874

Mark Twain
Stephen King
Tom Clancy

American Psycho
Blood Meridian
Fight Club

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>>20214487
KJ Parker (Tom Holt)
>Nix - Lirael
>Eisenstein - On Disney
>Blassingame - The Slave Community

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20215048

Glen Cook and Robert E Howard

I don't know. Black Company and maybe some Howard and Lovecraft collections. I like my shit grim and pulpy

>> No.20215883

>>20214487
>writer
I rather use publisher because I'm not a consoomer.

1. Oxford University Press
2. Cambridge University Press
3. MIT University Press

>> No.20215899

>>20214487
I haven't read enough to have a favorite writer or a top three books :(

>> No.20215907

>>20214874
completely based


my fav author is Kerouac
top books are:
101 Hamburger Jokes
Harry Potter 2
and On The Road

>> No.20215955

>>20214487
Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady
A Handful of Dust
A Farewell to Arms

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>>20215883
>No favourite writer because I'm not a consoomer
>anyway here's my favourite publishers...
wut

>> No.20215971

Tolkien

LOTR
Hobbit
Silmarillion

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>>20215971

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>>20215981
Fuck the Tolkien Society

>> No.20215998

>>20214487
mostly a non-fiction guy

but, I'd say Nietzsche for prose alone

top 3?

Carl Schmitt - On Dictatorship
Alexis De Tocqueville - The Ancien Regime And Revolution
Blaise Pascal - The Pensees

>> No.20216162

>>20215964
you're daft

>> No.20216170

>>20214487
>>20215971
>>20215981
>>20215989
I legitimately just finished LOTR and I read the Hobbit before hand. That felt like an experience. It felt weird to get to the end of the books.

>> No.20216176

Camões
Fernando Pessoa
God

>> No.20216178

>>20215998
>Blaise Pascal - The Penises
What did he mean by this?

>> No.20216183

>>20216176
>God
Could never really into that guy. Everything he writes is too damn long, and his newer stuff is all way too self help-y for my taste.

>> No.20216188

>>20216162
>must consoooooom if it's from my favourite corporate prodoooooocer

>> No.20216435

>>20214487
Sophocles

Don Quixote
Faust
Oedipus Rex

>> No.20216586

>>20214487
Shakespeare

The Collected Works of Shakespeare Arden Edition
The Collected Works of Shakespeare Oxford Edition
The Collected Works of Shakespeare Folger Edition

There's literally no point in read anyone but the Bard, anything else is a compromise.

>> No.20216591

Dostoevsky

Crime & Punishment
Great Gatsby
Brothers Karamazov

>> No.20216594

>>20214487
Tolkien easily.

Lord of the Rings (obviously), Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa and probably Dune .

>> No.20216595

>>20214487
Stanislaw Lem.

>Fiasco
>A Scanner Darkly
>Definitely Maybe

>scifi pleb read some classics
I did and I liked a lot of them, but not as much as muh scifi. Am a pleb.

>> No.20216654

>>20214487
Plato

Meno
Apology
Republic

>> No.20216722

Goethe

Faust 2
Moby Dick
The Sea Wolf

>> No.20216726

>>20215981
>invents entire new languages for his world
It's the other way around, actually.

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PG Wodehouse

>Lord Emsworth and Others (usually bundled with Uncle Fred in the Springtime) - PG Wodehouse; the first short story is the pinnacle of Wodehouse prose
>The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
>Flashman at the Charge - George MacDonald Fraser
All of these are commonly available narrated by the phenomenal picrel David Case (Frederick Davidson if published by Harper Audio, I believe)

>> No.20216811

>>20216595
based Lem enjoyer

>> No.20216825

Schopenhauer
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Robert Louis Stevenson

The World As Will and Representation
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

>> No.20216829

>>20214487
Don't have a favorite writer but if I had to pick the 3 best things I've ever read then what comes to mind is Moby Dick, Grapes of wrath, and The Fall.

>> No.20216830

>>20216178
Same anon, its just a nice book

>> No.20216838
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>>20214487
Tolkien, unironically.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
The Silmarillion.
Aniara
>>20214502
Based Classicist. Throw me your favourite Odyssey quote my man.
>>20216170
Next up you should read either The Silmarillion, or the Children of Hurin. It's magical. Glad you've found these books enjoyable.
>>20216435
Is Don Quixote enjoyable reading? I know it mostly through cultural osmosis and the quote in Cyrano the Bergerac. "Or up, into the stars."

>> No.20216843

>>20214487
Knut Hamsun

Pan
The Savage Detectives
Madame Bovary

>> No.20216845

>>20216838
Children of Hurin is such a great book.

>> No.20216846

>>20214487
Cixin Liu

Three body problem,
Dark forest,
Death's end.

Fite me. No other books left me spinning and unable to read anything else for two months afterward for sake of wanting to soak in the perspective I had just taken in.

>> No.20216853

>>20216846
Read Greg Egan and Peter Watts.

They also can't write, but less so than Liu.

>> No.20217233

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time
The Man Without Qualities
The Sleepwalkers

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>>20216845
One of the best. I listened to the audiobook with Christopher Lee as narrator last winter, couldn't be better. Had to take breaks between all the sad moments though, it's just too much sometimes.

>> No.20217240

>>20216838
>Aniara
True connoisseur.

>A lightyear is a grave.

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>>20217238
>finally Túrin has found a place for him to rest in Nargothrond
>the following chapter: The Fall of Nargothrond

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>>20217242
>But Hurin did not answer, and he sat beside the stone with Morwen in his arms; and they
did not speak again.
>The sun went down, and Morwen sighed and clasped his hand and was still;
>and Hurin knew that she had died.

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>>20217240
My man. I read it once a year. A treasure.
>We crashed into the Law’s precise command,
>and found our empty death in Mima’s dens.
>The god whom we had hoped for to the end
>sat wounded and profaned in Doric glens.

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>>20216586
Bro I like Filet Mignion but not for every meal. At least add some Marlowe to your diet for the fibre.

>> No.20217950

Edward Abbey
Hunter S Thompson
JRR Tolkien

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20217974

smoking a pipe is /lit/ af.
This is me with my pipe smoking some cpastan blue like tolkien did

>> No.20217986

>>20214487
Wallace Stevens

Murphy by Beckett
Ficciones by Borges
Essais by Montaigne

>> No.20217997

>>20214487
Ted Hughes

Ulysses by James Joyce
Crow by Ted Hughes
Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill

>> No.20218061

>>20214487
Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
The Redwall series by Brian Jacques, if I had to pick one probably Mossflower or The Long Patrol but all of them are good children's literature

>> No.20218078

>>20217974
>mouth cancer is /lit/

>> No.20218127

Simenon

Ender's game - OSC
Quo vadis ? - Sienkiewicz
Suicide island - Kouji Mori

>> No.20218134

Garcia marquez

The recognitions
Pride and prejudice
Great Gatsby

>> No.20218506

>>20216586
>>20217913
Nigga they be the same person lmao get cucked

>> No.20218613

>>20214487
Very tough question. For the moment I guess I'll say my favorite writer is Henry James (as opposed to the best writer, which is Beckett, whom I can't really claim to understand or appreciate).

Favorite books would be Portrait of a Lady, War and Peace, and the Iliad. Yes, I know Portrait might not be James' best, but I'm not well-read and I prefer to read widely before reading deeply, so I don't really have any author to pick as a favorite for whom I could say I've read all their books. Also, these threads would be more interesting if people gave any indication as to what specifically makes these books their favorites.

>> No.20218627

>>20216586
>Folger and Oxford over Riverside
big yikes

does Folger even have a collected works anywy, I thought they just did individual plays

>> No.20218813

>>20216586
Kek. OK there buddy. Don't get me wrong, I love Shakespeare, but what about
>Joyce
>Borges
>Yeats
>Ashbery
>Hughes
>>20218627
Riverside Shakespeare is kind of meh, desu. Riverside Chaucer is the fucking bomb and I wouldn't pick anything above it for Chaucer. As for Shakespeare, I personally prefer Oxford.

>> No.20218999

>>20215048
Simple as.
Luv it.

>> No.20219026
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Henry David Thoreau (pbuh)

A Confederacy of Dunces
The Day Lasts More Than A Hundred Years
A Canticle for Leibowitz

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>>20218999

>> No.20219145

>>20214487
Kafka

>> No.20219730

>>20214487
Mishima
Tolkien
Hughes

Runaway Horses
The Odyssey
The Brothers Karamazov

>> No.20220175
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Nabokov's Lolita
Flaubert's Sentimental Education
Ismail Kadaré's The Siege

My favourite is Nabokov.