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Pardon me, but a small survey, if you don't mind; ahem.

Gender:
Favorite Five Authors:
Favorite Genre:

Thank you for your time.

(Oh and fans of the Anime, you read this in my voice)

>> No.3104931

>Gender:
Male
>Favourite authors:
Thomas Hardy, DH Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka and W. Somerset Maugham
>Favourite genre:
None

>> No.3104935

Male

Kafka
Dostoevsky
Calvino
Proust
Nabokov

Nothing particular

>> No.3105027

Male

Cormac McCarthy
Umberto Eco
Ernest Hemingway
Eugene O'Neill
Samuel Beckett

Alcoholic pessimism.

>> No.3105040

Gender is a social construct

Joyce
DFW
Pynchon
Hitchens
GRR Martin

Erotic Paranormal Romance

>> No.3105042

Male

John Berryman
W.B. Yeats
Virginia Woolf
Samuel Beckett
John Ashbery

20th century poetry

>> No.3105054

>>3105040
You disgust me.

>> No.3105069
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3105069

>Gender:

MALE.

>Favorite Five Authors:

MY "TOP" EIGHT FAVORITE NONCONTEMPORARY AUTHORS OF FICTION ARE THE ONES FEATURED IN THE IMAGE ATTACHED TO THIS POST.

>Favorite Genre:

NONE.

>> No.3105075

>>3105054
i disgust myself

>> No.3105087
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3105087

>Gender
Male

>Favourite authors
DFW
Mishima
Dosto
Bolaño
Flaubert

>Favourite genre
>having a favourite genre

>> No.3105096

Gender:
>Dude

Favorite Five Authors:
>Nietzsche, Vonnegut, Borges, Camus, Dostoevsky

Favorite Genre:
>good books

>> No.3105102

>>3104925
>Gender:
Womyn

>Favorite Five Authors:
Naiomi Wolf
Kate Chopin
Mary Wollstonecraft.
Inga Muscio
Jessica Valenti

>Favorite Genre:
Anti-patriarchism

>> No.3105106

>>3105069
What are their names? I know you don't respond but if anyone else would be so kind please...

>> No.3105107

Gender: Female
Favorite Five Authors:
J.A. Rimbaud
Baudelaire
Jane Austen
Asimov
Tolkien
Favorite Genre: 19th century literature and french poetry. Science Fiction too.

>> No.3105112

Male
Ernest Hemingway
Kurt Vonnegut
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hunter S. Thompson

I enjoy biography/autobiography/memoirs just because I envy people that have lives worthy of being written about and remembered.

>> No.3105115

>>3105106
Chinese one is Osamu Dazai.

>> No.3105132

Male.
John Crowley, GK Chesterton, Gene Wolfe, Wendell Berry, Tolkien.
Science fiction.

Hope this helps you, OP.

>> No.3105135

Male

Tolstoy
Tom Wolfe
Waugh
Twain
Kipling

Realism

>> No.3105160

Hello OP!

Gender
>>Male

Favourite Five Authours:

>>Dostoyevsky
>>Hamsun
>>Sartre
>>Hesse
>>Joyce

Favourite Genre:
Psychological literature

What about yourself?

>> No.3105179

Male

Joyce
DFW
Vonnegut
Faulkner
Tolkien

Literary fiction, if that means anything

>> No.3105295

>gender
male

>favourite five authors
Tolkien
Poe
Lovecraft
DH Lawrence
GRRM

>favourite genre
None, really. I like fantasy an the macabre but I'm open to most genres.

>> No.3105308

>>3105115
>chinese

>> No.3105322

Male

Kafka
Salinger
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hunter S. Thompson
Faulkner

>> No.3105333 [DELETED] 

Male

Faulkner
Steinbeck
Fitzgerald
Joyce

>> No.3105356

Male

Plath
Anne Bronte
Kawabata
Pynchon
Nabokov

Books where the covers have birds on

>> No.3105367

>>3104925

Male.

Marquez
Camus
Gogol
Dostoyevsky
Hesse

Genre: Novel

>> No.3105377

>>3105367

Novel is a medium.

>> No.3105395

Male

Tolstoy
Murakami
Bulgakov
Borges
Gombrowicz

Magic realism

>> No.3105399
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>>3105377

>> No.3105412

Female

Kundera
Chekhov
Borges
Dostoevsky
DFW

>having a favorite genre
>2012

>> No.3105440

Female

Richard Adams
Ulrich Haarbürste
Pearl S. Buck
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anonymous

Prehistoric fiction

>> No.3105441

Female

Tolkein
Palahnuik
King
Lovecraft
Hugo

Genre: no specific one, every genre has good and bad fic.

>> No.3105451

>>3105040
>gender is a social construct
lol

>> No.3105733

Male

Faulkner, Beckett, Kafka, Pynchon, Tennessee Williams

non-genre

>> No.3105736

>>3105040
Genre is a social construct.

>> No.3106957

Male
Camus
Hemingway-the short happy life of francis macomber is the greatest thing I have ever read.
Bukowski
Pohl
Clarke

existential/nihilist/sci-fi

Also never read Kafka but very interested, any suggestions on a starting point?
>>3105027
Read Bukowski, all of it.

>> No.3106968

Male

McCarthy
DFW
Proust
Vonnegut
Robertson Davies

Iunno

>> No.3106976

Gender: Male
Favorite Five Authors: Conrad, Hemingway, Kafka, Camus, Nabokov
Favorite Genre: Fiction

You're welcome.

>> No.3106981
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3106981

Female

Yasunari Kawabata
Tove Jansson
Richard Brautigan
Kenji Miyazawa
Dezso Kosztolanyi

maybe surrealism or something, if it can count

>> No.3106988

Gender: Male
Authors: Celine, Mishima, Bataille, Stendhal, Genet
Genre: none

>> No.3106995

F

Charles Bukowski
Gail Carriger
Douglas Adams
Voltaire
Clive Barker

Steampunk fiction

>> No.3107003

Male

Kurt Vonnegut
Franz Kafka
Phillip K Dick
Haruki Murakami
Vladimer Nabakov

Psychological/surrealist humor (as in, when they intersect), historical drama, existentialism (though reading dry philosophy bores the hell out of me)

How about you OP?

>> No.3107007

Male

James Joyce
Franz Kafka
Richard Brautigan
Don Dellilo
William Faulkner

Magic Realism probably, give me me something I'd like

>> No.3107025

>>3105107
>Baudelaire

Respect.

>> No.3107026
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3107026

Male

Dan Abnett
Aaron Dembski Bowden
H.G Wells
H.P lovecraft
Clive Barker

Favorite genre is probably dark scifi/horror. I'd like to find another good horror novel sometime.

the last good one I read was about a flesh eating worm that burrowed into people's skulls and gave them orgasms when the human host ate human flesh.
It was simply titled "Flesh" but I forget who wrote it

>> No.3107030

Male

Kafka, Nabokov, Fitzgerald, GRR Martin, Joyce

None

>> No.3107031

Male

Hemingway, Pynchon, Gogol, Joyce, DFW

None

>> No.3107115

Gender(Sex?): Male
Favorite Authors: Lovecraft, Philip K Dick, Weis/Hickman, Hunter S Thompson, and Terry Pratchett
Favorite Genre: Fiction (too broad?)

>> No.3107687

>Gender
Male
>Favorite authors
R.A. Salvatore
Eoin Colfer
Jeanne DuPrau
Gary Paulson

>> No.3109454

>>3107687

>R.A. Salvatore

>Eoin Colfer

>Gary Paulson

It's like you're me when I was thirteen.

>> No.3109473

Male/homosexual
Gaiman, Pratchett, Vonnegut, Neel, Millar
Fantasy

>> No.3109480

Male

Shakespeare
Joyce (Portrait)
Pynchon (CoL49)
Crichton
Fitzgerald

no favorite

>> No.3109483

>Gender
Man

>Writers
Lord Byron
Joseph Conrad
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Alexander Pope
William Shakespeare

I've only gone for writers who wrote primarily in English because, let's face it, I'm no linguistic genius (like Conrad) and I'll never appreciate another language quite as well as my mother tongue. Having said that, notable mentions go to Stendhal, Baudelaire, Dante and Boccaccio.

>> No.3109485

>>3105441
hey baby

>> No.3109514

Gender: female
Favorite Five Authors: Anne Carson, Kim Addonizio, Anne Barngrover, Michael Ende, Billy Collins
Favorite Genre: idk. can I pick all of them?

>> No.3109521

ITT: Women have bad taste

>> No.3109543

tryhards fucking everywhere

also, lol @ females

>> No.3109546

Female
Kharms, Tolstoy, Mishima, Akhmatova, Blok
Hard to decide but if I have to choose only one it has to be lyric poetry

>> No.3109548

>>3109521
Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Kenji Miyazawa, Dezso Kosztolanyi, Borges, and Chekhov count as "bad taste" now?

>> No.3109552

>>3109546
Fuck yeah for another Kharms fan. Have you read Aleksei Remizov yet? I was suggested him by an anon on /lit/ when I asked for addition Russian absurdism recs.

>> No.3109626

Female

Silvina Ocampo
Clarice Lispector
Bruno Schulz
Ronald Firbank
Karel Capek

n/a

>> No.3109631

>>3109626

have you read leonora carrington? because you should read leonora carrington

>> No.3109789

>Gender:
Female
>Favorite Five Authors:
Baudelaire, Victor Hugo, Neil Gaiman, Osamu Dazai, Edgar Allan Poe.
>Favorite Genre:
Nothing in particular.

>> No.3109797

male

Hemingway, Douglas Adams, Hesse, Joyce, Kafka

>> No.3109798

Male
Joyce, Wallace Stevens, Borges, Whitman, Kafka
Fiction

>> No.3109804

>Gender:
Male
>Favorite Five Authors:
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Jesus
>Favorite Genre:
Religious

>> No.3109814

Gender: Male
Favorite Five Authors: I honestly haven't read enough books that I really liked enough to even have 5 favorite authors. However I love Vonnegut.
Favorite Genre: I like mystery I guess, but honestly I don't have a favorite genre

>> No.3109821

>>3105441

Nauseating taste.

>> No.3109822

Male

James Joyce
Haruki Murakami
Thomas Pynchon
Carl Sagan
Vladimir Nabokov

Modernist poetry and literature. Not really a genre but meh.

>> No.3109829

>>3105441
>Female
>King
>Hugo
Let's be friends

>> No.3109834

>Gender
Male
>Favorite Five Authors
Ayn Rand
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Richard Dawkins
Georges Bataille
Carl Sagan

Favorite Genre: Scientific Nonfiction

>> No.3109836

>>3109834

>thinks science isn't fiction

>> No.3109838

>>3109829

Let's cut through the bullshit.

>Female
>Let's be friends

This is what you really meant.

>> No.3109853

>Gender:
Female
>Favorite Five Authors:
Julien Gracq
Stendhal
Thomas Mann
Andrei Platonov
Danilo Kis
>Favorite Genre:
psychological

>> No.3109865

>>3109834
>Rand
>Dawkins
Oh my god you reek of teenage internet atheist

>> No.3109871

>>3109865

(not him)

>tfw angsty teenage internet newatheism didn't get a hold of you until your early 20s and it took browsing /lit/ to cure you of it

>> No.3109891

>Gender:
Male

>Favorite Five Authors:
Jorge Luis Borges
Italo Calvino
Isaac Asimov
Plato
Bernard Cornwell

>Favorite Genre:
Sci-fi

>> No.3109897

>Gender
Male
>Fav Five
Dante, Dogstoyevsky, C.S. Lewis, Asimov, Bataille
>Genre
anything but rap and country


>>3109834
srsly hoping pairing Bataille and Dawkins is a troll
pls don't use Bataille in your trolling :(

>> No.3109901

>>3109871
We all go through the "I'm an atheist debate me bro" phase sometime, most of us when we're about 14-ish. I think it is usually a pretty strong indicator that you've reached your peak selfishness and egotism, and then one day it hits you "Shit...i'm being an asshole"

>> No.3109903

>>3109901

>shit... i'm being an asshole

so true. it often takes getting called on it to realize it, though.

>> No.3109908

>Gender:
Female
>Favorite Five Authors:
Kafka, Halldor Laxness, Beckett, Nabokov, Flann O'Brien
>Favorite Genre:
Magical realism or experimental.

>> No.3109915

>>3109901
Happened to me pretty recently, although I was never quite on the " debate me bro" level of douchebaggery.

>> No.3109987

>people listing GRRM along with literary writers but only one mention of Crowley and Wolfe and none of Hodgson, Peake, LeGuin or Harrison
maximum why.jpg

>> No.3109992

>>3109987

Because people with shitty taste actually like GRRM. The literary authors are just there for show.

>> No.3109994

Gender: Male
Favorite Five Authors: Tolstoy, Tolkien, Sartre, Hardy, Orwell
Favorite Genre: I try not to get on one genre, it ruins the reading experience as a whole.

>> No.3110014

>>3109901
I went through this phase at the exact same time I had my first real infatuation with a girl. She was a Christian and, naturally, I fucked it all up.

>> No.3110018

Male
JVance, SRDonaldson, DDunnett, ADumas and GCook.
I'd say I don't have a favourite genre, but since I read fantasy the most, I guess it would qualify.

>> No.3110051

>>3105040
>gender is a social construct
lel is that what they teach in lgbt studies now

>> No.3110073

>>3110051
It is a social construct. It's gender, not biological sex. It's in the definition.

>> No.3110083

>>3104925
Male.
Tolkien, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, H.P. Lovecraft, Terry Pratchett again.
Epic Fantasy. Or deconstructions. They don't have to be deconstructing anything in particular, just so long as they deconstruct the shit out of it.

>> No.3110087

>>3110083
Weis/Hickman
Also, these two. But not the first three they wrote. Twins saga and after.

>> No.3110095

>>3109865
Being a teenage internet atheist doesn't make you automaticly like EYYYYYEEEEENNNN Rand.
This coming from one who considers Objectivisim to be a mild form of sociopathy.

>> No.3110105

>>3110095
Coming from a person that really dislikes rand:
dismissing other people's ideas by ascribing them to pathology is probably the most idiotic thing a man can do.

>> No.3110178

Quite a french/american/russian dominance over here. As of a general tendency on / lit/.

von Kleist
Hesse
Heine
Châteaubriand
B. Vian

Favourite genre: everything others won't read ore like. Snob.

>> No.3111706

>>3109838
We both share the feelings of having a vagina, fuck off.

>> No.3111719

Male
Wallace, Proust, Gaddis, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy
Maximalism

>> No.3111729

Sure is existentialism in here.

>> No.3111750

Gender: God
Favorite Five Authors: Five of my personalities
Favorite Genre: Bullshit horror