Your five favourite writers

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Your five favourite writers Anonymous Fri Jan 23 19:39:35 2015 No.6042404 [Reply] [Original]

Faulkner
McCarthy
Woolf
Melville
Miller

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 19:41:42 2015 No.6042411 >>6042404 Pynchon Faulkner Joyce Fitzgerald Salinger McCarthy is shit tier.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 19:44:22 2015 No.6042415 >>6042404 Camus Hugo Wordsworth Byron Keats

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 19:48:14 2015 No.6042424 >>6042411 What have you read by him?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 19:49:25 2015 No.6042426 Beckett Faulkner Pynchon everyone else I've read enough of hasn't convinced me of top-5 status

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 19:49:44 2015 No.6042427 Green Meyer Rowling Rand Lin

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 19:51:46 2015 No.6042435 Wolfe Gaiman Crowley Borges Morrison

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 19:53:24 2015 No.6042441 Cavell Nguyen Lin Calloway Woolf

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 19:57:25 2015 No.6042452 >>6042424 Blood Meridian and Suttree

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 19:58:14 2015 No.6042455 Woolf Boyle Hurston Munroe Dunham

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 19:58:57 2015 No.6042457 >>6042452 Try Outer Dark

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 20:01:59 2015 No.6042471 >>6042457 Is it actually captivating or is it still just McCarthy jerking off his prose with zero empathy evoked for characters, motivations, or emotions? Because his books make me feel absolutely nothing.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 20:08:37 2015 No.6042490 >>6042471 Well it's only a short read, but if that's what you think of Suttree and Blood Meridian then you probably won't enjoy it either.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 20:12:01 2015 No.6042507 Nathanael West Jonathan Safran Foer Flannery O'Connor Georges Perec Dante Alighieri >liking mononymic authors

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 20:12:23 2015 No.6042510 Kafka Bulgakov Witkiewicz Mann James

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 20:14:28 2015 No.6042518 Neal Stephenson John Scalzi Ian Douglas T.C. McCarthy Philip K. Dick

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 20:16:19 2015 No.6042525 Nabokov Pynchon DeLillo Le Guin Kafka Feel free to rec me something that you think I might like, friends

>>	Tallis !!y+12CeFwYOo Fri Jan 23 20:16:27 2015 No.6042526 >>6042411 Protip: literature didn't start a hundred years ago! Try reading more, and perhaps expand your horizons! >>6042426 Pretty ironic, considering Pynchon is barely literature and Beckett is Walmart minimalism!

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 20:21:22 2015 No.6042542 >>6042526 >Pynchon is barely literature He probably thinks Duchamp is barely art and Kanye is barely music

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 20:23:02 2015 No.6042546 >>6042526 >barely literature >Walmart minimalism the post said to list your favorite writers, not the writers you read to impress your professors and peers

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 20:23:05 2015 No.6042547 File: 149 KB, 396x385, 1418276543001.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Camus Zhuang Zhou Milton Ovid Frost

>>	Tallis !!y+12CeFwYOo Fri Jan 23 20:25:27 2015 No.6042556 >>6042546 It's your problem if your tastes are base and corny, --- yet we live in a free country, keep reading that dank genre fiction if you will.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 20:26:46 2015 No.6042560 >>6042526 Like I give a fuck if literature started before 100 years ago. I've read it, mother fucker. But that doesn't change a goddamn thing what I said, faggot. GTFO trip cunt Go get pegged by Paradise.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 20:28:39 2015 No.6042565 >>6042556 It's not a problem for anyone but you, apparently. I'd be willing to bet there's something inside you that shrinks at the sight of your inauthenticity every time you crack open a Greek play or an Italian tome

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 20:29:54 2015 No.6042570 >>6042556 >being a classicist in the postmetamodern era

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 20:41:49 2015 No.6042597 César Aira Nabokov Tomasso Landolfi Chekhov Juan Carlos Onetti

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 20:45:37 2015 No.6042608 Maclean DFW McCarthy King Boyle Not the five I consider best necessarily, but the five I enjoy the most

>>	Tallis !!y+12CeFwYOo Fri Jan 23 20:50:14 2015 No.6042623 >>6042608 b8

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 20:51:53 2015 No.6042630 >>6042623 Nope. Can't deal with it, that's your problem, not mine. Or maybe it's mine but whatever, I enjoy good schlock just as much as intellectual bullshitting.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 20:53:22 2015 No.6042634 there sure are a lot of plebs on /lit/

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 20:57:29 2015 No.6042650 >>6042471 >Not enjoying that cold, emotionless feeling inside. Normalfag detected.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 21:05:37 2015 No.6042672 File: 3.89 MB, 3542x4928, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Author of the Pearl Manuscript Chaucer Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power The Art of Seduction The Baroness Blixen Francis Parker Yockey

Anonymous Fri Jan 23 21:08:06 2015 No.6042681
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Author of the Pearl Manuscript

Chaucer

Robert Greene,
The 48 Laws of Power
The Art of Seduction

The Baroness Blixen

Francis Parker

6. A man named Guy Delisle, graphic novelist
Travel writer....

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 21:09:16 2015 No.6042684 Matthew Mark Luke John Paul

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 21:09:32 2015 No.6042686 >>6042681 Francis Parker... Yockey

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 21:12:58 2015 No.6042697 >>6042404 Can't read Faulkner for shit, what do?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 21:14:19 2015 No.6042703 >>6042411 >likes Pynchon >McCarthy is shit-tier Just fucking lol.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 21:14:23 2015 No.6042704 Faulkner Flannery O'Connor Roth Borges Joyce

Anonymous Fri Jan 23 21:14:38 2015 No.6042705

Fielding
Rabelais
Flaubert
Shakespeare
Petrarch

I don't read pig disgusting translations. I am trilingual. Also, the prole selections in this thread are painful to the eye. If only you would do people with real discipline a favor and fuck off this board permanently

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 21:16:19 2015 No.6042708 >>6042705 now this guy is funny

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 21:16:22 2015 No.6042709 Melville Dostoevsky Conrad Hardy Gogol

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 21:17:37 2015 No.6042714 >>6042705 i suspect "people with real discipline" don't come to this board in the first place, mr nofun

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 21:20:26 2015 No.6042721 >>6042510 > James E.L.?

>>	Tallis !!y+12CeFwYOo Fri Jan 23 21:21:43 2015 No.6042727 >>6042714 Shitposting and being well-read is not mutually exclusive...!

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 21:21:44 2015 No.6042728 >>6042721 Henry, I would assume

Anonymous Fri Jan 23 21:26:29 2015 No.6042744

>>6042714
"Fun" is a concept inherently bound up with anti-intellectualism and philistinism. It is used to keep commoners such as yourself sated in mediocrity. Should you step out of this narcotic ideology for but a moment you would squint and bray in confusion at what any true intellectual (such as myself) knows to be art. But alas, this is your place in life. At least you provide society with important manual labor. Your problem begins in the fact that you feel you have the right to express your opinion despite an obvious lack of education and an uncultured background. You deserve a muzzle.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 21:27:59 2015 No.6042748 >>6042744 >alas stop posting

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 21:28:15 2015 No.6042749 File: 76 KB, 625x626, d5c.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6042744

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 21:43:32 2015 No.6042813 tolstoy shakespeare flaubert roth austen milton keats fuckit

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 21:52:52 2015 No.6042846 >>6042728 gosh really. and they say americans don't get sarcasm

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 21:54:02 2015 No.6042853 File: 164 KB, 500x317, gauld5.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6042744 k dude whatevs

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 22:52:23 2015 No.6043009 >>6042404 Vian Suskind Zola Baudelaire Théophile Gauthier Saint-Exupéry I've mostly read french literature, I know I have pleb taste >>6042681 Pyongyang was great

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 22:59:43 2015 No.6043026 Kipling Kafka Conrad

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 23:08:52 2015 No.6043054 >If I listed my favorite authors people would write me off as a troll Why isn't there a /book/ yet?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 23:11:10 2015 No.6043058 >>6043054 dis.4chan.org/book/ good luck getting a reply to your post within a year Alternatively /r/books seems more your speed

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 23 23:11:31 2015 No.6043060 >>6042697 Stop trying to read Faulkner.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 11:12:53 2015 No.6044822 keep up the good work tallis

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 11:19:03 2015 No.6044835 >>6042404 Shakespeare Philip Roth Virgil Nabokov Wilde

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 11:59:23 2015 No.6044967 Borges Kafka Nabokov Proust Bánffy

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 12:14:14 2015 No.6045009 >>6042404 Tolstoy Dante Gene Wolfe Dostoevsky Philip K Dick

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 12:16:11 2015 No.6045013 >>6042518 John Scalzi is the lowest, most awful shit tier genre trash I've ever read.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 12:17:13 2015 No.6045017 >>6042525 Gene Wolfe since you like Kafka, Nabokov and Le Guin

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 12:23:25 2015 No.6045036 File: 21 KB, 171x254, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Tolstoy Kafka Bayer Bolano Burroughs

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 12:24:21 2015 No.6045044 Gaddis Swift Calvino Pynchon I'm not really certain of a 5th but I like Kafka and soseki from what I've read. For some reason I can't get into borges despite liking his ideas but >Translations

Anonymous Sat Jan 24 12:29:28 2015 No.6045055
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>>6042744
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>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 12:32:08 2015 No.6045063 File: 395 KB, 1100x906, 1419524140943.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Dostoyevsky Tolstoy Camus Kafka Conrad

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 12:33:54 2015 No.6045066 >>6045055 Come on anon you can do better then that, both ur post and his may be a shitposting but at least his gives you something to read, don't just post dumb shit like that at least try to offer a rebuttal if you disagree with his post

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 12:34:45 2015 No.6045067 La Fontaine Tolstoy Boileau Sophocles Pope

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 12:36:51 2015 No.6045072 File: 644 KB, 800x1200, 1356807193586.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6045066 my rebuttal is my fun

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 12:37:05 2015 No.6045073 Pynchon Faulkner B.E. Ellis Lin Didion

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 12:40:03 2015 No.6045078 Alejo Carpentier Juan Carlos Onetti Boris Vian João Guimarães Rosa Melville >>6044967 Are you me when I was 19?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 12:52:53 2015 No.6045116 File: 500 KB, 500x333, lainreflection.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Borges Murakami Bender Boyle Diaz

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 12:55:02 2015 No.6045120 >>6043009 >Pyongyang was great yes it was his book about jerusalem was pretty good too

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 13:04:30 2015 No.6045146 >>6045017 oh, I do my friend, I do. He would've been there if I did 5 more. Gonna start Book of the Long Sun soon. Thanks though!

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 13:08:21 2015 No.6045162 >>6045078 >Onetti Al fin dejo de ser el único en mencionarlo.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 13:30:43 2015 No.6045238 Turgenev Conrad Flaubert Lelville Dickens Hardy Anyone who out Faulkner or Nabokov should be shot in the head

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 13:37:50 2015 No.6045257 Borges Calvino Marias Woolf Greene

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 13:49:29 2015 No.6045301 >>6045238 I'd prefer not to be shot

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 13:52:48 2015 No.6045315 >>6045238 >Dickens read more Faulkner, pleb

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 13:53:17 2015 No.6045319 >>6045315 >hating on Dickens You're the pleb, son.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 13:54:37 2015 No.6045327 >>6045238 > Turgenev чего ты выбраешь однороманпиcавшего пиcателя?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 14:09:48 2015 No.6045378 >>6045078 I'm actually 24 but really starting to develop a taste for Hungarian literate hence why Banffy is there. His works seem very underlooked, especially here on /lit/.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 14:17:13 2015 No.6045398 >>6045238 >that list top kek pleb

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 14:23:41 2015 No.6045418 Melville Dante Kafka Lowry Shakespeare

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 14:28:42 2015 No.6045434 >>6042404 Pynchon Franzen Camus Salinger Greene

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 14:36:16 2015 No.6045473 >>6042404 Pynchon Gogol Delillo Denis Johnson Philip K. Dick

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 14:38:12 2015 No.6045482 Melville Fuentes Coetzee Seneca Cervantes

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 14:47:22 2015 No.6045513 >>6042404 vonnegut krasznahorkai gaddis steinbeck joyce

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 14:51:45 2015 No.6045531 Tolkien Dosto Pynchon McCarthy DFW I make no apologies for my shit taste

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 14:57:29 2015 No.6045551 >>6042404 Saramago Pynchon Tolstoy McCarthy Nabokov

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 15:03:44 2015 No.6045574 >>6045513 >Vonnegut >And Gaddis How?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 16:08:48 2015 No.6045764 Kafka McCarthy Homer Camus KA Applegate

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 16:09:58 2015 No.6045767 File: 191 KB, 392x336, 1380424411621.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6042404 >favourite

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 19:12:58 2015 No.6046497 File: 2.12 MB, 1520x2688, IMAG0049.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6045162 Up vote :)

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 19:20:07 2015 No.6046530 >>6042404 Baudelaire Péguy Mallarmé Racine Muray

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 19:21:16 2015 No.6046537 >>6046530 >baudelaire -_-

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 19:21:32 2015 No.6046538 >>6042684 My man.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 19:22:45 2015 No.6046544 >>6042705 Excellent taste but for Fielding.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 19:24:57 2015 No.6046554 >>6043009 Yep. Baudelaire is the only god-tier writer on the list. And Zola, even though I can't stand his political and moral views. Have you ever read Charles Péguy?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 19:26:58 2015 No.6046565 >>6045067 "Le plus grand styliste c'est La Fontaine. C'est ça, et puis c'est tout. C'est final."

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 19:27:20 2015 No.6046566 >>6042681 >Pearl poet <3 And to think, it would have disappeared if they hadn't found the one manuscript.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 19:28:29 2015 No.6046572 >>6046537 What's wrong with Baudelaire?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 19:30:28 2015 No.6046577 >>6042853 >those disgusting normal fags implying they are men. internet comics

Anonymous Sat Jan 24 19:30:48 2015 No.6046578

>>6046572
He is the Wordsworth of France. Incredibly innovative, total genius, should be read by every student of the language, didn't write nearly as good poems as others. Comparing Baudelaire to Mallarmé in terms of poetic ability is like comparing Wordsworth to Keats. One is probably the greater genius, the other is a far better poet

Anonymous Sat Jan 24 19:35:03 2015 No.6046587

>>6046578
I don't compare Baudelaire's "poetic ability" to Mallarmé's. I think no one has had a better understanding of what was happening to the western world in XIXth century France than Baudelaire.

I'm sorry if my English is faulty. I'm not English.

Anonymous Sat Jan 24 20:03:38 2015 No.6046679

>>6042404

Joyce
Pynchon
Bret Easton Ellis (Because he was my first favourite writer as an angsty teen)
Kafka
DFW (Genius so far, the creativity of Pynchon with Joyce's understanding of the human condition)

God I feel like a /lit/drone. Although Pynchon is the only author I discovered here out of those.

Anonymous Sat Jan 24 20:06:43 2015 No.6046693

>>6046679
Who the fuck cares. Go read a bunch of inclusive victimization dogshit by mkembe umbuki or what the fuck ever and get your dick sucked by reddit if you're such a pathetic faggot you're afraid of being judged for liking good things because essentially you're the definition of a hipster
>God I feel so guilty, people KNOW about them

Jeaus fucking christ

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 20:10:19 2015 No.6046708 >>6046693 Why are you getting this mad on an Uzbek calligraphy listserve?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 20:11:24 2015 No.6046711 >>6046693 I think he's more referring to how /lit/ in particular that stuff is. It's not like he's embarrassed about liking Shakespeare and Dante

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 20:11:56 2015 No.6046713 >>6046708 >waaaahhhh don't use bad mean scary swears I get real offended on le asian country hobby blog see I memed good lemme alone missuh i sure don't want to have to ever evaluate my idiocy

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 20:12:01 2015 No.6046715 DeLillo Gaddis Pynchon Woolf PKD no order

Anonymous Sat Jan 24 20:14:59 2015 No.6046731

>>6046711
none of the authors /lit/ discussea with regularity are particularly obscure or non-critically acclaimedjust think if he hadn't put that dicksucking qualifier apologizing for not being enough of a contrarian hipster he wouldn't be being insulted, what irony

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 20:16:33 2015 No.6046741 ITT: Joyce Kafka Dostoevsky Nabokov Pynchon

Anonymous Sat Jan 24 20:23:56 2015 No.6046777

>>6046736
Why do you even read books? You're afraid of being judged for liking good authors, I presume because you are some raging hipster faggot from /mu/, and you're so offended by being called a hipster that you are now unable to stop yourself from replying with literally anything because it's very important I realize how angry I've made you hear today. Stop being such weiner boofing faggot a of your life.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 20:25:26 2015 No.6046787 Clive Barker Stephen King George R. R. Martin Chuck Pahlaniuk I realize I have a very low hipster score, here. Frank Herbert

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 20:26:30 2015 No.6046789 >>6046787 I like you. I don't like the books you like, but I like you.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 20:29:09 2015 No.6046798 >>6046693 I don't really feel guilty, I only said that as a contingency for people who would think I was a /lit/ drone. My god, pure ideology at it's finest.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 20:31:00 2015 No.6046810 at the moment it'd probably be something like: rumi carl jung robinson jeffers james joyce e.e cummings

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 20:32:31 2015 No.6046818 at the moment it'd probably be something like: rumi carl jung robinson jeffers james joyce william carlos williams

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 20:35:41 2015 No.6046832 >>6045013 he is funny and entertaining, here is some more low tier literature for you to read. Go fuck yourself faggot.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 20:42:11 2015 No.6046853 >>6042518 >T.C. McCarthy Never heard of him before, but he sounds alright according to a quick search. Is it well written?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 20:50:50 2015 No.6046885 Faulkner Blake McCarthy Melville Greenwood

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 20:52:09 2015 No.6046894 Borges Eco Tolstoy Marquez Poe

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 24 20:54:28 2015 No.6046910 >>6046741 Those authors are all god-tier though

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 05:22:20 2015 No.6048569 >>6046578 This this this this this and this Finally someone who think like me! Luv you mate

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 05:34:36 2015 No.6048583 >>6046832 Go grow some basic taste faggot

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 06:02:36 2015 No.6048617 >get on my edgelord level Nabokov Kafka Bolaño Delilo Dos Passos

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 06:11:17 2015 No.6048641 Propertius Ovid Vergil Homer Pindar

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 06:15:05 2015 No.6048648 >>6048641 Did you start with the greeks or have you done classics?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 06:19:33 2015 No.6048659 >>6048648 I did Classics at uni

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 07:00:42 2015 No.6048740 >>6048641 >>6048659 Can you advise me some good ancient poets? I hesitate between Tibullus, Propertius, Sappho, Pindra, Anacreo, Catullus and Martial. Who should I read? All of them? And in which language have you read them? In Latin / Greek?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 07:09:22 2015 No.6048762 >>6045238 That's 6 names you fuck

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 07:27:54 2015 No.6048817 >>6048740 Noy him, but all of them. And Hesiod, Juvenal and Horace too.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 07:33:30 2015 No.6048833 >>6042404 Goethe Borges Proust Milton Kafka

Anonymous Sun Jan 25 08:07:46 2015 No.6048939

>>6048740
Yeah there's no shortage of great classical poets, definitely all worth a look. Only one I didn't really enjoy was Lucretius but he's definitely still interesting.

I read them in a mix of the original and English translation, though always referring to the original. My Latin/Greek isn't good enough that I can just sit down and read it through, and some English translations are very good.

Anonymous Sun Jan 25 08:10:36 2015 No.6048949

>>6048740
For starting out though the cream of the crop are the ones I said plus Lucretius, Catullus, Horace, Statius, Theocritus. Then you have the fragments of the other Greek lyric poets.

Then there's drama which I haven't read too much of but the Greeks are better, Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus and Aristophanes.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 08:12:00 2015 No.6048955 >>6048949 Juvenal, Persius and Seneca all definitely worth a look too, but the others I'd say are more important. Haven't actually read any Martial but I'd put him in this category.

>>	MR Sun Jan 25 08:12:57 2015 No.6048962 Schiller Dürrenmatt Hesse Nabokov Vidal Dick

>>	MR Sun Jan 25 08:19:45 2015 No.6048982 >>6048962 Apparently I can't count.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 08:20:05 2015 No.6048984 Dosto Kafka Tolstoy Woolf Balzac

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 08:21:23 2015 No.6048987 Dostoevsky Steinbeck Kafka Dumas Chekhov

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 08:23:05 2015 No.6048992 Wallace McCarthy Faulkner Steinbeck Joyce

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 08:37:12 2015 No.6049032 P. G. Wodehouse T. H. White Charles Portis Cormac McCarthy Soren Kierkegaard

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 09:29:33 2015 No.6049188 David Mitchell Don DeLillo J. R. R. Tolkien Douglas Hofstadter Douglas Adams

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 09:35:45 2015 No.6049212 >>6049032 How's The Dog of the South? Been meaning to read that one.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 09:40:57 2015 No.6049232 Dosto Kafka Bolaño Orwell Amado

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 10:23:09 2015 No.6049397 Dumas Lovecraft Hamsun Tolkien Asimov

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 12:49:07 2015 No.6050025 >>6046853 I like his writing style and I am generally into military scifi in a dystopian future, check out the germline series. >>6048583 >stop liking what I dont like faggot

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 12:53:31 2015 No.6050043 >>6042526 man you are just absolutely insufferable arent you?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 12:58:55 2015 No.6050069 >>6050043 It's not a fault of his character if he's willing to point out your absolute lack of artistic discernment. If anything he does it out of compassion.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 13:00:04 2015 No.6050073 >>6049397 >lovecraft wtf why? He had great ideas, but man his writing was shit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 13:01:03 2015 No.6050076 >>6050073 The guy has Asimov on his list, what do you expect?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 13:01:04 2015 No.6050077 >>6048833 >Goethe Mah Nigga

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 13:01:15 2015 No.6050078 Wallace Pynchon Joyce Stirner Socrates

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 13:01:56 2015 No.6050082 Swift or Voltaire Steinbeck Kerouac Joyce Orwell

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 13:02:05 2015 No.6050085 File: 104 KB, 1280x842, Foreveralone&frog&dildo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6050076 Yeah.. :(

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 13:43:50 2015 No.6050281 >>6050025 It isn't the question of liking. It's the question of taste. It's like you are eating cow shit and I tell you to eat salad.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 13:49:01 2015 No.6050310 >>6050077 What is wrong with Goethe? I just found it strange that a list containing Proust and Goethe would include Kafka. Anon is certainly well rounded.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 13:52:51 2015 No.6050325 >>6050281 ok you dont like it, so what.. go away

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 13:56:00 2015 No.6050338 >>6050310 I said ''Mah nigga'' as in ''Your taste are similar to mine, therefore I feel bonded to you''

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 14:04:55 2015 No.6050383 >>6050325 This is /lit/, not r/books m8

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 14:08:29 2015 No.6050399 >>6050078 lel

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 14:09:57 2015 No.6050403 >>6050383 threads called favorite writers, not shit post every 2 minutes

Tallis !!y+12CeFwYOo Sun Jan 25 14:13:40 2015 No.6050418

>>6048740
Pindar is boring if you can't read him in original. Sappho's fragments take about thirty minutes to read, and aren't that interesting, if not in original.

Roman drama is pretty shitty man, this that 'clever slave' and 'cuck husband' molière-tier memes all over it, nothing worthy in there.

Euripides is literally a socratic dialogue taking place between heroes; don't read that shit.

Read Sophocles and Aeschylus, though. Sophocles has some real dank shit. Aeschylus is probably superior in many aspects, but Sophocles still is my favorite I guess. Read the shit outta him.

Tallis !!y+12CeFwYOo Sun Jan 25 14:16:46 2015 No.6050436

>>6050403
Shut the fuck up, bitch. Your taste is shit, you've been told, now grow a better taste or get the fuck out.

Don't bring you brute and cheesy taste in here, there are other places for discussing bad authors, young adult and genre fiction. The board is called literature. Most of what you like doesn't qualify as literature. Read more or get the fuck out.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 14:24:10 2015 No.6050478 Céline Houellebecq Nabokov Bukowski Welsh

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 14:24:13 2015 No.6050480 >>6042526 heahheaheheahaehaeheahaeh

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 14:24:51 2015 No.6050482 >>6050418 I wanted to read Euripides because I know that Racine was majorly influenced by him, but ok. And what about Tibullus, Catullus, Anacreo and Propertius? >Roman drama is pretty shitty man Even Plautus?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 14:25:53 2015 No.6050491 >>6050478 >Bukowski Top pleb

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 14:28:10 2015 No.6050503 >>6050338 Oh, I see, sorry.

Tallis !!y+12CeFwYOo Sun Jan 25 14:28:40 2015 No.6050508

>>6050482
It was actually Plautus I was subtly referring to :^)

Anacreo is the only one of those quoted I've actually read, and all I've read were the Odes, so I really can't help you with those four, but I remember enjoying it.

Yeah, perhaps Racine was influenced by Euripides, but Sophocles was clearly superior, and Racine greatly departed from Euripides, not on a strictly stylistic or human level (Racine does not paint types or characters, but rather, --- humans), but also on a narrative level, so you ain't gonna find much of that Racine in Euripides, trust me.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 14:59:02 2015 No.6050639 >>6050436 Why can't more people on here be like Tallis? You stupid faggots are ruining my favorite board. Go back to reddit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 15:14:13 2015 No.6050691 >>6050436 >>6050639 OOOOOOO I got 2 cock suckers on the hook now... b-but muh literatuuuuur

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 15:16:16 2015 No.6050705 http://www.reddit.com/r/literature/

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 15:20:02 2015 No.6050720 >>6050639 that's what this board needs. More retarded french faggots who misunderstand everything they read and talk about reading more than they do. Fuck you Tallis

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 16:05:03 2015 No.6050897 >>6042404 Julio Cortázar Victor Hugo HP Lovecraft Arthur Conan Doyle Stephanie Meyer

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 16:30:54 2015 No.6051013 Kafka Borges Kierkegaard Heraclitus

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 16:56:15 2015 No.6051142 >>6050338 >>6050310 I feel extremely bonded to you too. Goethe is great. <3 >>6050503 I will forgive you, even though I'm not that person.

Anonymous Sun Jan 25 16:56:24 2015 No.6051144

I'll never understand assholes like Tallis. Everything that they don't like is genre trash. ASOIAF was the most recommended fantasy series on here until the show came out and the books blew up. Now it's genre trash because you're lit hipsters. Odyssey is a fantasy work. DAT MEANS IT GENRE TRASH HURRRR. Everything is part of one genre or another. Get over yourself and stop crying every time someone likes something you don't like.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 16:58:06 2015 No.6051153 >>6051142 what goethe should i read after wilhelm maister and faust 1

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 16:59:06 2015 No.6051159 >>6051144 please don't do this you're just going to make tallis feel better about himself because of how obviously wrong you are

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 17:03:06 2015 No.6051186 >>6051159 If you seriously can't stand people discussing books on here then bitch to whoever moot gave the site too about it and not us. It's not our fault their isn't a separate board for it.

Anonymous Sun Jan 25 17:06:00 2015 No.6051204
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>>6050508

Why do you think the Christian Reformer Martin Luther may have loved Virgil and Plautus?

Also, why do you think Saint Paul referenced Aratus, Epimenides, Menander, Euripides, and Xenophon in the New Testament?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 17:18:32 2015 No.6051279 >>6051153 I think Werther is a great start. But considering you've already read Faust 1, I'd recommend to read the second. Though don't expect more of the same. Enjoy.

Tallis !!y+12CeFwYOo Sun Jan 25 17:19:19 2015 No.6051288

>>6051159
This.

I won't even bother answering to >>6051144, it's too fucking retarded.

>>6051204
>Why do you think the Christian Reformer Martin Luther may have loved Virgil and Plautus?
For Plautus, perhaps because he poked fun at morally questionable people, just like Molière did latere on. No idea why he would have loved Virgil, tho.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 18:17:21 2015 No.6051536 Garcia Marquez Le Guin Gaiman Whitman Morrison

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 21:09:14 2015 No.6052281 Joyce Borges Dostoyevsky McCarthy Marilynne Robinson I seriously considered revising this list to avoid criticism.

Anonymous Sun Jan 25 21:17:17 2015 No.6052309

These lists aren't really productive as they dont produce discussion about literature so much as criticism of other's taste. like the 3x3 meme on /mu/ they also are rife with trolls and stupid tripfags.

that said

Borges
Thomas Wolfe
Steinbeck
Marquez
Shakespeare

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 21:19:32 2015 No.6052317 >>6052281 who gives a shit about criticism about your personal taste?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 21:28:13 2015 No.6052354 >>6052309 >revising to appease a bunch of parroting hipster fucks you have no integrity if you do this.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 21:29:33 2015 No.6052366 >>6043060 How come? My first language is Spanish and I can read Faulkner just fine.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 21:50:32 2015 No.6052477 I love Kafka, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Proust, O'Casey, Rilke, Lorca, Keats, Rimbaud, Burns, E. Brontë, Jane Austen, Henry James, Blake, Coleridge

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 21:52:04 2015 No.6052487 >>6052477 now this is my boy

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 21:54:34 2015 No.6052498 In reverse order: Burroughs Woolf Shakespeare Anonymous God

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 21:55:10 2015 No.6052502 Creeley Nabokov Kafka Vonnegut Murakami

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 21:55:36 2015 No.6052503 McCarthy Camus Wilde

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 21:58:09 2015 No.6052515 >>6052502 Actually, change Murakami to Wallace.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 25 22:02:23 2015 No.6052540 File: 148 KB, 650x679, picassoswhores.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6052354 I'm a whore anon

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 05:24:31 2015 No.6053900 over the last few months ive really been enjoying woolf austen capote fitzgerald wilde

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 05:45:32 2015 No.6053936 In no order Kafka Nabokov Joyce Camus Dostoevsky Honorable Author: Stephen King since his books were the ones that really got me into reading.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 05:52:03 2015 No.6053946 Melville Faulkner Wolfe Chesterton Dostoyevsky Flannery O'Connor and Dante get an honorable mention

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 12:16:54 2015 No.6055022 If you all don't mind I will use this thread as a pool of /lit/ favorite writers. I'll come later with the results.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 12:19:05 2015 No.6055025 mishima faulkner melville chaucer (does poetry count?) flannery o connor

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 12:27:31 2015 No.6055058 >>6055025 >does poetry count? Yes, there is poetry that counts. "Yan, tan, tethera...", for instance.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 12:36:28 2015 No.6055084 McCarthy Faulker Foster Wallace Kerouac Bukowski

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 13:27:49 2015 No.6055308 >>6042526 >Pynchon is barely literature This is what memes do to authors, kids

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 13:42:32 2015 No.6055355 Rowling Hubbard King Rand Faulkner

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 13:49:06 2015 No.6055381 >>6042684 tips fedora

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 14:38:39 2015 No.6055608 >>6045574 >plebs like pleb shit how?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 16:56:43 2015 No.6056336 In no particular order: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Bernard Cornwell Charles Dickens Leo Tolstoy George Orwell

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 16:59:53 2015 No.6056346 File: 78 KB, 800x600, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6056336 >Dickens

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 17:01:21 2015 No.6056353 >>6042404 LONDON O N D O N

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 17:15:42 2015 No.6056410 Shakespeare Dante Carroll Nabokov Austen

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 19:45:01 2015 No.6057122 >>6051288 you still havent posted your 5, but you still comment on everyone elses. What kind of a bitch ass pussy are you?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 19:52:57 2015 No.6057160 >>6046910 1 of them might be

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 20:04:29 2015 No.6057234 Woolf DeLillo Dickinson McCarthy Melville

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 20:14:47 2015 No.6057296 >>6042404 Sabato Katzenbach Kerouac Bukowski King

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 20:19:13 2015 No.6057314 George R R Martin Ernest Hemingway Chuck Palahniuk James Joyce Shakespeare >inb4 my taste is shit

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 20:24:18 2015 No.6057346 John Keats Virginia Woolf Arthur Rimbaud J.D. Salinger F. Scott Fitzgerald

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 20:26:40 2015 No.6057360 >>6045473 I love Denis Johnson. 3 diferent times I've picked up Jesus' Son and read it in 1 sitting

Anonymous Mon Jan 26 20:53:29 2015 No.6057472

Murakami
Hemmingway
Vonnegut
PKD
King

I know Stephen King is shit. I actually hate more of his books than I like, but damnit if I'm not excited every time I pick one up. Even if it is overall disappointing, something inside of it will really grab me like nothing else quite can.

Sorry I'm a pleb, guys.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 20:59:29 2015 No.6057499 >>6057472 well then don't let people tell you he sucks. jk you're a dumb faggot

Anonymous Mon Jan 26 21:05:28 2015 No.6057522

>>6057499
??? I don't let people tell me he sucks. I experience this shit first-hand. I've read a ton of his books and can only honestly say that I live maybe 2 or 3 of them. The rest are promising, but fail at some critical juncture, whether it be the pacing, the ending, the plot, the characters etc... I end up greatly disliking many of his books once I read them.

That being said, even his shitty books have something in them that I enjoy, even if its only one really good chapter. It's enough to keep me coming back despite all the shit I have to put up with to get those rare moments of greatness.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 21:52:15 2015 No.6057743 Donna Tartt Clive Barker Bret Easton Ellis Richard K. Morgan H.P. Lovecraft

>>	Tallis !!y+12CeFwYOo Mon Jan 26 21:54:11 2015 No.6057749 >>6057743 >Ellis my niqqa

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 21:58:20 2015 No.6057759 >>6057314 Chuck Palahniuk? When you turn 14?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 22:01:02 2015 No.6057772 >>6057759 those closest contact he's had with 3/5s of that list is wikipedia

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 26 22:07:35 2015 No.6057792 >>6057743 rules of attraction is great and overlooked a lot. american psycho was okay. kind of predictable though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 27 01:33:15 2015 No.6058646 McCarthy Orwell Wilde Melville Hemingway

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 27 02:08:29 2015 No.6058758 lloyd alexander roger zelazny jeff noon matt ruff joanna rose

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 27 02:13:10 2015 No.6058772 >>6058758 >>>r/books >>>/facebook/

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 27 02:16:13 2015 No.6058779 john steinbeck thomas pynchon kurt vonnegut ernest hemingway david foster wallace >>6058772 rude

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 27 02:22:43 2015 No.6058803 >>6058772 kekeke. your deduction skills have failed you.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 27 03:09:21 2015 No.6058963 Kipling E.O. Wilson Calvino Mitchell Waldrop moot

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