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Name your top 5 writers (fiction).

>> No.4619397

Your personal favorites I must add.

>> No.4619406

1.Lovecraft.
2.Poe.
3.George W. Chambers.
4.George R.R Martin.
5. Richard Matheson

>> No.4619424

1. Borges
2. Kafka
3. Ligotti
4. BEE
5. King

>> No.4619442

inb4 everyone posts the same 10 /lit/core writers

claude simon
lawrence durrell
blaise cendrars
the abbé prevost
raymond queneau

>> No.4619446

1.Kafka
2.Murakami
3.Arthur C Clarke
4.Camus
5.Orwell

>> No.4619450

Raymond Chandler
Richard Yates
Charles Willeford
Alfred Bester
John Cheever

>> No.4619465

1) Gore Vidal.
2) Thomas Pynchon.
3) Isaac Asimov.
4) Graham Greene.
5) John Gardner.

>> No.4619482

>>4619424
Do you have any suggestions on what to read by Ligotti?

>> No.4619495

1. Pynchon
2. Joshua Cohen
3. Karinthy (and his son)
4. Woolf
5. Ol' J.J

>> No.4619499

>>4619320
Ende
Hesse
Murakami
Pratchett
Tolkien

>> No.4619502

1. Pavese
2. Leza Lima
3. Svevo
4. Madox Ford
5. Octavio Paz

>> No.4619513

>>4619482
most of Ligottis short story collections are out of print so I would recommend Teatro Grotesco

>> No.4619515

1. Gombrowicz
2. Queneau
3. Blanchot
4. Bataille
5. Balzac (It was between Balzac and Zola).

>> No.4619523

1 Thomas Pynchon
2 Flann O'Brien
3 Vladimir Sorokin
4 Hermann Hesse
5 Samuel Beckett

>> No.4619551

>Bataille
>García Marquez
>Yukio Mishima
Those are definitely my favorites.
I've not read that much fiction, and even though there are others I greatly enjoyed reading like Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Golding or Burroughs, I still don't feel like they can be considered from amongst my favorites.

>> No.4619599

In no order:

1. John Le Carré
2. David Foster Wallace
3. Elmore Leonard
4. F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. James Ellroy

>> No.4619602

>>4619320

1.Cormac McCarthy
2.SE Hinton
3.Jean Genet
4.Jack Kerouac
5.Albert Camus

>> No.4619641

1. Conrad
2. Elmore Leonard
3. Melville
4. Nabokov
5. William H. Gass

>> No.4619662

1. Frank Herbert
2. Michael Crichton
3. Iain M. Banks
4. Kurt Vonnegut
5. Jon Krakauer

>> No.4619671

>>4619662

Jurassic Park novel is so good.

>> No.4619679

>>4619320

Knut Hamsun
Dostoevsky
Honore de Balzac
Goethe
James Joyce

>> No.4619687

1. Bulgakov
2. DFW
3. Cao Xueqin
4. Kosinski
5. DeLillo

>> No.4619689

>>4619406
I really, really hope you are not being serious.

>> No.4619691

Tolstoy
Woolf
Peake
Joyce
Krasznahorkai

>> No.4619693

>>4619689

stfu, that's his taste.

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>>4619406
>George W. Chambers

>> No.4619701

>>4619515

I fancy you, bro.

>> No.4619708

>>4619693
And he shouldn't be here.

>> No.4619710

Rowling
Blume
Sanderson
Korman
Martel

>> No.4619711

>>4619708

stfu, that's not for you to decide.

>> No.4619712

>>4619708

You shouldn't be here with that fuckin attitude. Let him take his pleasure as he pleases.

>> No.4619713

>>4619711
>>4619712
I leave for a month and /lit/ goes to complete shit.

>> No.4619715

>>4619711
The guy doesn't like literature, he likes dragons and spooky things.

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4619718

1. Aldous Huxley
2. C. Clark
3. Hemmingway
4. Goethe
5. Kazantzakis

>> No.4619722

>>4619708
He should be here because I believe in freedom of choice. Who can say what tastes are valued more than others? In case you misunderstand, /lit/ is not a club for only the highest taste martyrs on the planet. If you believe it is you're making a sad mistake and are deluding yourself by being here

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4619726

>>4619715

>> No.4619729

>>4619713

Lel...

>> No.4619730

>>4619715
When you repress your knee-jerk reactions to Poe and Lovecraft, you see that they're pretty accomplished prose stylists and storytellers.

>> No.4619731

>>4619715

That makes no sense.

>> No.4619739

* borges
* blanchot
* deleuze&guattari
* alphonso lingus
* pk dick

>> No.4619745

David Foster Wallace
D.F. Wallace
Wallace
David F. Wallace
DFW

>> No.4619746

>>4619730
I think it's the inclusion of the GoT retard that makes that list look so bad. Pure and Lovecraft are pretty great.

>> No.4619752

>>4619746
Poe, not Pure

>> No.4619769

>>4619722
Actually, you can say which tastes hold more value than others, because a person who likes books created for imbeciles has worse taste than a person who knows what high quality literature and prose is. Please don't use facebook comments on /lit/.

>> No.4619770

>>4619745
>nonfiction author
>character from The Pale King
>this one I wasn't sure about. Wallace Stegner, maybe?
>character from The Pale King
>fiction author

>> No.4619782

>>4619769
OK, but that's your opinion. Obviously the other guy enjoys those authors, and so he is an imbecile without the same more worthy thoughts and experiences you have?

>> No.4619792

>>4619713
Keep trying.

>> No.4619804

Dostoyevsky
Borges
Lem
Wallace
Dickens

>> No.4619823

Kafka
Pynchon
DFW
Rulfo
Myself

>> No.4619860

>>4619320

Who is this painting from? I tinyeye'd it and didn't find anything

>> No.4619903

shakespeare :^)
kafka
gide
beckett
duras

>> No.4619905

Gabriel garcia marquez
Dostoevsky
Hemingway
Bukowski
Orwell

>> No.4619918

>>4619782
I was answering that one post of yours generally, I don't know and care who 'he' is, but yes, you got the drift. That person would be somewhat of an imbecile in that stage, since taste is a matter of development, and literature has a lot to offer.

>> No.4619942

Albert Camus
Dan Simmons
Poppy Z. Brite
Pearl S. Buck
H.P. Loveraft

>> No.4619944

>>4619730
I've got nothing against those two authors, they are both great. I was just looking past the list and seeing the kind of person that'd make it. Poe and Lovecraft are always hung onto by people who can't continence most real literature. They're a trap that allow people who have no time for literature to pretend that they "real serious books too".
>>4619726
Nah my tastes are pretty fucking plebby too. The most 2deep4u stuff that I like is probably Joyce, and I really just love that shit for the lyricism of the language. I'm a sucker for pretty words.

>> No.4619947

>>4619782
Different anon here, the guy is either an imbecile or completely ignorant. Most people with those tastes are lost causes. At the very least he needs to lurk moar.

>> No.4619962

Borges
Tolstoy
Calvino
Conrad
Dickens

>> No.4620009

>>4619442
>the abbé prevost

ew.

>> No.4620012

>>4619442
>>4619515

queneau is terrible. pls go.

>> No.4620038

Borges
Doestovksy
Hemingway
McCarthy
Fitzgerlad

>> No.4620041

>>4620012
>queneau is terrible. pls go.
Fuck off, pleb.

>> No.4620043

Borges
Murakami
Marquez
Fitzgerald
Bender

>> No.4620046

>>4620009
>>4620012
you guys haven't finished high school right?

>> No.4620047

>>4620041
you must be a bored pleb to like his stuff

>> No.4620049

>>4620047
Egregious bait, m8.

>> No.4620072

>>4620049
u a faggot, m8

>> No.4620078

>>4620049
>Egregious
lovely word
sounds like a panini with feta and prosciutto

>> No.4620096

>>4619860
Don't know who it's from but I do believe it's North Beach in San Francisco if that helps you at all. Pretty sure that's Coit Tower.

>> No.4620100

>>4619918
this guy literally wrote his mail on the email section. wow. lit...

>> No.4620101

>>4620078
I'm hungry now

>> No.4620110

>>4619602

nice m8

>> No.4620112

>>4620101
that oily crust crackling as you bite down
that nuanced rich flavor
go get yourself a sandwich m8

>> No.4620123

>>4619710
loser

>> No.4620138

robert anton wilson
murakami
joyce
salinger
john fante

>> No.4620863
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>>4619689
Dude, fuck off. You're a cancer in these threads.

>> No.4620888

Tao Lin
Haruki Murakami
Ann Beattie
Dragomoshchenko
Lydia Davis

>> No.4620905

1. DFW
2. Dostoyevsky
3. Borges
4. Yasutaka Tsuisui
5. Chris Ware ("a language of abbreviated ‘visual words’ having its own grammar, syntax, and punctuation")

>> No.4620985

>>4620905

>Chris Ware

manchild pls go

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>>4619860
anybody's guess, really

>> No.4621126

>>4619722
>>4619693
>>4619711
>/lit/ is not a club for only the highest taste martyrs on the planet
Have you ever been here before? Belittling others' opinions is like 95% of the board.

>> No.4621244

>>4619320
>everyone is blogging about themselves and hoping for others to pay attention to them

Quality thread, assholes.

>> No.4621641

1. Pynchon
2. Kafka
3. Orwell
4. Rowling
5. Jansson

>> No.4621653

>>4620985
"What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours - that is what you must be able to attain. To be solitary as you were when you were a child, when the grownups walked around involved with matters that seemed large and important because they looked so busy and because you didn't understand a thing about what they were doing.

And when you realize that their activities are shabby, that their vocations are petrified and no longer connected with life, why not then continue to look upon it all as a child would, as if you were looking at something unfamiliar, out of the depths of your own world, from the vastness of your own solitude, which is itself work and status and vocation? Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from."

>> No.4621811

>>4621244

The thread would make for an interesting ad hoc poll of favorite authors. It could be a simple tally of names, or weighted by posters' rankings. Granted, I'm not going to do it...

>> No.4621828

>>4620078
>feta
>on a panini

i think we all know who the real pleb is here

>> No.4621843

>>4619320
Sinclair Lewis
Joseph Heller
Saul Bellow
Flannery O'Connor
Witold Gombrowicz

>> No.4621849

>>4619406
Obvious b8

>> No.4622054

>>4619698
>Implying George W. Bush exists

>> No.4624264

>>4619718
Roast Beef Kazantzakis?

>> No.4624269

>>4622054
What are you implying with your implication?

>> No.4624280

James Joyce
Robert A. Wilson
William Gibson
Aleister Crowley
Roald Dahl

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I only know 3: Me, Myself and I

>> No.4624709

Borges
Bowles
Beckett
Bolaño
Burroughs

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>>4621653
>pic related

>>4624709
Hard mode: name your favorite author whose name doesn't start with a b.

>> No.4624855

>>4624841
Pynchon

>> No.4624856

>>4624709
b-b-b-b-bitch

>> No.4624874

>>4624841

Probably Baudelaire or Bukowski. I also enjoy Ballard, Boyle, Bradbury, Banks, and Laird Barron.

>> No.4624879

>>4621811
I'm making a list by alphabetical order to count how many times has each author been named. So far looks like Borges wins.

>> No.4624884

>>4624879
Uh, btw guys, don't just say "Murakami", please. I can't tell which one are you talking about.

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4624885

Borges
Hesse
Pessoa
Poe
Kundera

Poets:
Pessoa
Rilke
Trakl
Yeats
Tagore

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>>4624885
>Poe

>> No.4624895

>>4624885
>Name your top 5 writers
Learn to read, idiot.
An idiot like you doesn't know shit about Trakl.

>> No.4624928

>>4624895
yeah ok man

>>4624890
I'm basing it mainly on Ligeia

>> No.4624959

Pinecone
Kafka
DeLillo
McElroy
McCarthy

>> No.4624967

>>4624959
what mcelroy have you actually read?

>> No.4624975

>>4624967
Smuggler's Bible, Canonball, Actress in the House, Plus, and 600 pages in Women and Men now.

Got to meet and chat with him for a while, humble guy with major resentment toward Bloom it was great.

>> No.4624980

>>4624975
lol why does he have resentment toward bloom

>> No.4624988

>>4624975
I suppose you're reading an ebook of Women and Men? Do you happen to know whether Dzanc Books will be reprinting any more of his work any time soon?

>> No.4624991

>>4624980
Didn't get that deep, I brought up Bloom's name and he looked at me and said something like "Yeah well he is about to die soon, have you seen recent photos of him? Horrible" all in a pissy tone haha. Perhaps he wants more recognition for his work, we talked about DeLillo too and though they are friends he said "Well I'm smarter than him."

It was pretty great.

>> No.4624995

>>4624980
all smart writers do

>> No.4624996

>>4624988
I actually have a copy via my university library, I asked McElroy to inform me if a reprint happens and he said he would so i'm not sure. You can always contact him through his official website.

>> No.4624998

>>4624995
i know lol i was just wondering why he would even know that tbh

>>4624991
sounds 10/10

>> No.4625053

>>4619320

Based on the writer's ability to craft cohesive narratives with a concrete vision and uniqueness of style, in no particular order:

1.) Melville
2.) Faulkner
3.) O'Connor
4.) Dostoyevsky
5.) Gene Wolfe

>> No.4625057

Kafka
Borges
Poe
Shakespeare
Houellebecq or John Dolan

>> No.4625118

>>4624879
Be sure to notify us when this thread nears its death.

>> No.4625121

nah y'alright.

>> No.4625161

Wallace
Lowry
Mishima
Carver
Pessoa

>> No.4625165

>>4625118
If the thread dies before I post the final results I'll do a new one.
Oh, and Borges wins by far.

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>>4619320

In no particular order:

1. Vonnegut
2. Shakespeare
3. O'Connor
4. Bukowski
5. McCarthy

Not saying these are the most important authors, they are just the ones I have enjoyed reading the most.

>> No.4625332

Highest powerlevels:
1) Borges, appearing on 10 lists.
2) DFW and Kafka with 7 mentions.
3) Pynchon and Dostoyevsky, 6 times.
4) James Joyce, 5 times.
5) Orwell and McCarthy 4 times.
6) Beckett, Camus, Fitzgerald, Hesse, Marquez, O'Connor, Poe and Shakespeare, 3 times.
Now I'm making a jpg with the list.

>> No.4625347

Dostoevsky
Vonnegut
Nabokov
Twain
Lin

>> No.4625359

>>4624874
What about Byron?

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I'll make a second version if this thread continues alive tomorrow.

>> No.4625380

>>4625369
can't you just do a top 10 or 15 in descending order? don't need to hear about the losers with one vote.

>> No.4625382

>>4625380
>>4625332

>> No.4625384

>>4619424
who the fuck is bee?

>> No.4625387

>>4619446
>arthur c clarke
>within 2 places of Kafka
the fuck

>> No.4625391

>>4625384
Bret Easton Ellis

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>>4619804
>Lem

>> No.4625396

1. Ernest Hemingway
2. Albert Camus
3. Joseph Conrad
4. F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. Dostoevesky
[I'm not very well read, yet....]

>> No.4625399

>>4625369
why the fuck is DFW so popular? Is there something I can read of him that's shorter than infinite jest?

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>>4625399
stick to this is water, pleb

>> No.4625407

>>4619905
YES

>> No.4625412

>>4620041
>>4620046

>Prévost
topkek, I think the French may as well admit that their entire country produced nothing of worth in the entire 18 century besides Rousseau and --maybe-- Chénier.

>Queneau
Absolutely disgusting. Seriously, one of the worst authors of 'repute' to come of France in the century just passed. Zazie is meaningless drivel. Its just awful. Queneau can’t think, and he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.

>> No.4625415

>>4625402
>that filename
I already read A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, and Big Red Son. What fiction has he written that's good?

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>>4625399
>Consider the Lobster
>Girl With Curious Hair
>Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
>A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

And what this guy was talking about (>>4625402) "This is Water" was a speech and an essay by DFW. I'd recommend listening to it for those instant results.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhhC_N6Bm_s&list=LLQ9xentmjIWkkVaq-PvHB-Q

>mfw my AP Lit teacher gave us this exact speech in class 3 years ago in high school and i didn't find out it was from DFW (or who the fuck DFW was for that matter) until last year.

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>>4625415
>What fiction has he written that's good?
welll....

if you've already read those and didn't like them, it's not going to get much better. you could try brief interviews i suppose. broom of the system is shit.

>> No.4625484

>>4619320

>Hemingway
>Salinger
>Dostoyevsky
>Cards
>Lovecraft

>> No.4625491

>>4619689

Choke on a dick, moron.

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>>4625484

>Cards

>> No.4625547

>>4625359

Byron is brettygood, but Blake is better.

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>>4625424
>chompy_walurs.png

>> No.4625592

>>4625547
>not Keats

>> No.4625595

>>4625592

Somebody's not following along. Surely you meant The Beats.

>> No.4625642

1. Dostoyevsky
2. Kafka
3. Camus
4. Celine
5. Beckett

>> No.4625695

Shakespeare
Cervantes
Homer
Tao Lin
Dante

>> No.4625736

>>4625332
>Borges and Kafka appeal both to genre and "serious" literature types. Probably the only two 20 century writers who will stand the test of time.
>DFW and Pynchon appeal to contrarian hipster who at the same time do not want to stray very far from the lit department canon
>Orwell, Hesse and Camus appeal nowadays mainly to goodreads and reddit nerdy demographics.

I'm >>4625057 by the way

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>>4625736
Hm, you're probably spot on.
I like seeing that many people liking Borges, since El Aleph is next on my to-read list just after The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. My expectations are pretty high right now.

>> No.4627166

1. Jon Ransonlend
2. Mars Ston
3. Vins Casistov
4. Jonathan Corey J.Peterson
5. Lars Markinz

>> No.4627169

Pynchon
Pynchon
Tao Lin
Dostoevsky
"Homer"
Pynchon

>> No.4627198

>>4625736
>Allow me to pontificate, gentleman, on this august board I like to call /lit/

>>4625774
>probably spot on
Kill yourself.

>conflating appeal with value
>deriving an author's primary appeal from internet stereotypes
>only two authors from the 20th century have any lasting literary significance


I really hope you were just talking out of hand and don't seriously believe the shit you just said. I can't imagine any reasonable and intelligent person making this abortion of a post without a hint of irony. You're commodifying literature and I'm ashamed of myself for visiting a board where shit like like this sort of thing passes for acceptable discourse.

>> No.4627674

>>4627198
Judging by the length, seriousness and extreme butthurt of this post looks like you believe anybody will give a fuck about you.
And "conflating appeal with value"? Seriously? Are you like very dumb or something?

>> No.4627732

Coetzee
DFW
Kafka
Pynchon
Dostoevsky

>> No.4627744

Thomas Pynchon
Cormac McCarthy
Franz Kafka
John Steinbeck
Albert Camus

>> No.4627750

kurt vonnegut '
john updike
cormac mccarthy (the road was too good to ignore)
craig clevenger (lol)

>> No.4627768

I've only really read JK Rowling and George RR Martin, so those two I guess.

>> No.4627827

Haruki Murakami
Thomas Pynchon
Albert Camus
Hunter S. Thompson
DFW

>> No.4627912

We have a new winner:

>1) Dostoyevsky: 12
>2) Borges, Kafka, Pynchon: 10
>3) DFW: 9
>4 Camus: 7
>5) McCarthy: 6
>6) James Joyce: 5
>7) Orwell, Beckett, Fitzgerald, Shakespeare, Vonnegut, Hemingway: 4
>8) Hesse, Marquez, O'Connor, Poe, Conrad, Lovecraft, Tao Lin: 3

("Haruki Murakami" 2, but "Murakami" 4.)

>> No.4627919

>>4627912
I'm shocked that Nietzsche isn't on there.

>> No.4627921

>>4627919
it says fiction writers in the OP

>> No.4627923

>>4627919
We can make a non-fiction one another day.

>> No.4627925

>>4627923
>We can make a non-fiction one another day.
no

>> No.4627933

>>4627923
I can already guess the top 5:

1. Nietzsche
2. Stirner
3. Wittgenstein
4. Kierkegaard
5. Evola

>> No.4627935

I'm surprised Melville and Faulkner aren't at higher powerlevels...

>> No.4628008

>>4627925
Of course yes. It's not like you can do anything to stop it from happening.
>>4627933
There's gonna be a lot of Kant, Schopenhauer, Marx, Zizek and Hegel too, probably.

>> No.4628049

>>4628008
>Zizek
kek

>> No.4628064

>>4628049
Laugh, but you know it's true.

>> No.4628069

>>4628064
Kill yourself.

>> No.4628169

>>4628069
What makes you think I will kill myself just because some retard on 4chan told me so?
This kind of stuff stopped being offensive back on high school, now it's just pathetic. Step it up.

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1. Hans Christian Anderson
2. Orwell
3. Huxley
4. Poe
5. I can't think of a 5th...Rowling I guess