[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 972 KB, 1500x1856, D.H.-Lawrence-2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
2950999 No.2950999 [Reply] [Original]

Alright, /lit/, give me your top 5 favorite authors.
>Tennessee Williams
>William Faulkner
>William S. Burroughs
>Roberto Balano
>D.H. Lawrence

>> No.2951009

>F. Scott Fitzgerald
>William S. Burroughs
>Cormac Mcarthy
> Chuck Palkhbiadfghunk (fuck however you spell it
>Ernest Hemingway

>> No.2951014

>>2951009
I'm trying to become more familiar with McCarthy. I've only read the Road. Any recommendations?

>> No.2951015

>Cortazar
>Kerouac
>Vila Matas
>Sebald
>Faulkner

>> No.2951020

>Bukowski
>Sabato
>Hamsun
>Dostoyevsky
>Burroughs

>> No.2951023

Blood Meridian is arguably his best work.

>> No.2951031

>William Styron
>Fyodor Dostoevsky
>David Foster Wallace
>William Maxwell
>Joseph Conrad

>> No.2951040

plebs to the left of me, plebs to the right, let me show you chumps what's up

honore de balzac
flannery o'connor
robert walser
herman melville
gerrud stein

>> No.2951045

>>2951014
Blood Meridian and The Border Trilogy are all great. If you haven't seen the film of No Country for Old Men, you can read that, but the film is an almost word for word adaptation.

>> No.2951052

Yukio Mishima; John Williams; Laszlo Krasznahorkai; J.G. Ballard; Fernando Pessoa.

>> No.2951075

>>2951052
Which is your favorite of Williams' novels? What is Butcher's Crossing like?

>> No.2951086

>>2950999
whenever i see d.h. lawrence i always imagine him being about eight inches tall and speaking in a squeaky voice like a cartoon mouse.

>> No.2951114

>>2951014

All the Pretty Horses (first of the Borders) is wonderful but certainly takes some getting used to if you're unfamiliar with his work.

The Sunset Limited if you're into dialogue.

>> No.2951118

>J.M. Coetzee
>Ismail Kadare
>Graham Greene
>Hem
>Faulkner

>> No.2951119
File: 100 KB, 450x600, Yasunari_Kawabata.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
2951119

>Richard Brautigan
>Yasunari Kawabata
>Tove Jansson
>Bohumil Hrabal
>Osamu Dazai

>> No.2951130
File: 99 KB, 380x635, narrow land.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
2951130

gombrowicz
jack vance
rabelais
cordwainer smith
charles portis

>> No.2951136

>F.M. Dostoevsky
>W.S. Burroughs
>William Faulkner
>Chuck Palahniuk
>Terry Pratchett

>> No.2951141

>>2951130
Did you see that Gombrowicz's diary was released recently by Yale University Press?

>> No.2951144

>>2951141
nope, did you read it?

>> No.2951170

>>2951144
Nah, and I've only read one of his novels. But I thought it might be interesting to you, if he's a favorite.

www.amazon.com/dp/0300118066/

>> No.2951178

>>2951170
yeah, i just read some reviews and some people rate it higher than his novels. thx for the tip

>> No.2951179

Dostoyevsky
Ibsen
Lowry
Beckett
Borges

>> No.2951188

beckett
hardy
dostoyevsky
marquez
hesse

>> No.2951208

montaigne
cervantes
shakespeare
melville
proust

sub out montaigne and shakepeare for flaubert and faulkner if novels only. woolf and ibsen deserve honorable mention.

>> No.2951237

>Dostoevsky
>DFWalrus
>Philip K. Dick
>Borges
>Kafka

>> No.2951279

>>2951237
love me some frosty walrus

>> No.2951299

>Orwell
>Kafka
>Dawkins

Kinda that.

>> No.2951317

Hemmingway
Clarke
Pynchon
Meyer
Tull

>> No.2951340

Any books:
Russell, B.
Moore, G.E.
Orwell, G.
Lyotard, J-F.
More, T.

only fiction:
Orwell, G.
More, T.
Bostrom, N.
Gaarder, J
Bukowski, H.K (or Bukowski, C.)

>> No.2951350
File: 65 KB, 563x660, 252644_456529964366255_265002880_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
2951350

Superior taste coming through

Frank O'Hara
Guillaume Apollinaire
Franz Kafka
John Cheever
Samuel Beckett

>> No.2951356

1-5 Borges

>> No.2951369

>>2951356
Good man.

>> No.2951387

> superior taste
> cheever
> wat

>> No.2951408

j.d. salinger
jack kerouac
lemony snicket
f. scott fitzgerald
william s. bourroughs

>> No.2951444

Honestly besides Faulkner and Pynchon, there aren't any authors I've read more than 3 books by.

>> No.2951461

>>2951408

Sure is 20 in here.

>> No.2951470

>>2951461

Twenty? More like seventeen, no?

>> No.2951486

James Joyce
Walt Whitman
Jorge Luis Borges
Franz Kafka
Wallace Stevens

>> No.2951489

>Nabokov
I've never enjoyed looking at words so much
>Burroughs
If only for Naked Lunch, best of the beats
>Ballard
Doom and Gloom!
>Kafka
Excellent ideas
>Tied last place
>Philip K. Dick
Just nice stories that remind me of childhood
>Burgess
Earthly Powers was the first "big boy book" I read and his smarmy brand of pretension has a special place in my heart.