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Your all-time favorite writers?

09-28-2003, 12:27 PM

Hoping to find some new good ones

My favorites are:
Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, Oscar Wilde, Albert Camus, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ferdinand Bordewijk, Edgar Allen Poe, Thomas Mann, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Anton Chekhov

Probably forgetting a few, but these are the main ones

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09-28-2003, 12:27 PM

Chuck Palahniuk (fight club), William Gibson (nueormancer)

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09-28-2003, 12:29 PM

John Milton, Dante Aligheiri, Burroughs, Bukowski, Hunter S Thompson, Kerouac, Stephen King, Poe, and Lovecaft.

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09-28-2003, 12:31 PM

fuck I forgot William Blake and Baudelaire.

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09-28-2003, 12:35 PM

Kerouac, Hemingway, Burgess, Fitzgerald, Harper Lee, Gibson, Poe, Hunter S, Steinbeck, Douglas Adams, Shakespeare... and many more

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09-28-2003, 12:35 PM

So far, I remember forgetting Shakespeare, Nabokov, Lucebert and Lord Byron

She walks in beauty like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies,
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to the tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One ray the more, one shade the less
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress
Or softly lightens o'er her face,
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling place.

And on that cheek and o'er that brow
So soft, so calm yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow
But tell of days in goodness spent
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent.

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09-28-2003, 12:39 PM

I forgot Tolkien... doh!

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09-28-2003, 12:41 PM

books suck, but if you must read, check our Dave Barry.
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09-28-2003, 12:42 PM

Originally posted by The Truth Hurts
books suck, but if you must read, check our Dave Barry.

Why do you think books suck?

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09-28-2003, 12:43 PM

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So far, I remember forgetting Shakespeare, Nabokov, Lucebert and Lord Byron

And Walt Whitman.

I have a hardback version of Leaves Of Grass from 1908.

I love old books.

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09-28-2003, 12:44 PM

Roald Dhal...
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09-28-2003, 12:45 PM

Originally posted by punkworld

Why do you think books suck?

cause I ain't got time for them, I'm easily distracted, and I prefer my entertainment to be visual.. so instead of books, I go with dvd's ; )
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09-28-2003, 12:45 PM

for sure Tolkien... and i didn't even consider non-fiction

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09-28-2003, 12:46 PM

Originally posted by Ross
Roald Dhal...

james and the giant peach, etc? good reading from way back

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09-28-2003, 12:47 PM

And as silly as it may sound.

Theodore Geisel.

His words were some of the first to hit me.

'From there to here,
from here to there
funny things are everywhere.'

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09-28-2003, 12:49 PM

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09-28-2003, 12:49 PM

Originally posted by Fletch XXX

And Walt Whitman.

I have a hardback version of Leaves Of Grass from 1908.

I love old books.

Never read anything by him, actually. Any good?

And two more forgotten authors: Vestdijk and Eco

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09-28-2003, 12:50 PM

I enjoy a lot of old pulpy stuff, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Kenneth Robeson...
Philip Jose Farmer I dig, Clifford Simak (cheezy sci-fi)
I mainy read these days to help me sleep.
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09-28-2003, 12:51 PM

i also really like Jack London

"I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet"

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09-28-2003, 12:51 PM

Originally posted by punkworld

Never read anything by him, actually. Any good?

And two more forgotten authors: Vestdijk and Eco

I have books on him, and books of his works.

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/whitman/works/

A whole new world is out there if you havent read any.

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09-28-2003, 12:52 PM

That is an easy one: Stephen King

I got over 20 books from Stephen King, and each of those books is completely different from all the other ones.

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09-28-2003, 12:53 PM

WIlliam Gibson (neuromancer), Tolkien, HP Lovecraft, Richard Adams, Douglas Adams, Spider Robinson, Frank Herbert, Shakespeare (plays), Tennyson (poetry). I'm sure there's more I haven't thought of yet.

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09-28-2003, 12:55 PM

also really like Betty Smith (A Tree Grows In Brooklyn) and Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes)...

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09-28-2003, 12:59 PM

Originally posted by Fletch XXX

I have books on him, and books of his works.

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/whitman/works/

A whole new world is out there if you havent read any.

Then I'll go and buy some of his books tomorrow

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09-28-2003, 01:00 PM

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That is an easy one: Stephen King

I got over 20 books from Stephen King, and each of those books is completely different from all the other ones.

I've got a few bigass hardcovers of his, they were gifts, one day i'll read them.
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09-28-2003, 01:02 PM

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Then I'll go and buy some of his books tomorrow

I have an older version of this one.

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one of my favorites. i dont have the dust jacket, and it looks exactly like that one.

I never open it though.

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09-28-2003, 01:12 PM

A more recent find: The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq. It gives a rather disturbing view of modern societry and it's morality. Disgusting at times, but very well-written.

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09-28-2003, 01:14 PM

Isaac Asimov - Franck Herbert

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09-28-2003, 01:16 PM

Punkworld, quiet.

buy this and read it. I think youd love it.

Its not for the weak hearted.

Stories that make even me smirk.

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Some are only 2 - 3 pages but are very good.

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09-28-2003, 01:17 PM

O'Reilly books
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09-28-2003, 01:17 PM

it's a toss up between myself and juicy
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09-28-2003, 01:26 PM

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Punkworld, quiet.

buy this and read it. I think youd love it.

Its not for the weak hearted.

Stories that make even me smirk.

Really disturbing.

Some are only 2 - 3 pages but are very good.

http://www.younggodrecords.com/Relea...p?ReleaseID=17

'"The Consumer is a look at the inner world of illusion, hallucination, self-hatred, and search for identification through mis-indentification of a lost soul. It is an all consuming book. It is cerainly not a book for the squeamish, yet even the squeamish, I believe, will be hypnotized by this book. Though hallucinatory, the writing is extremely clear, crisp, succinct, as the narrator literally eviscerates himself for the reader. Yet, at the end I found myself with an unanswerable question: are the hallucinations a distortion of reality, or really closer to the reality of the world?"
- Hubert Selby, Jr., author of Last Exit to Brooklyn; Song of the Silent Snow, Requiem for a Dream

"M. Gira is an astonishing writer whose belief in the power of language is almost supernatural. The Consumer is one of the purest, scariest, and most beautiful books I've read in years."
- Dennis Cooper, author of Try:Frisk

"This is repulsive writing. Brilliant, disciplined and repulsive writing."
- Nick Cave'

a must read for anyone into literature.

Gira is also well known for producing every Swans recording put out, but he is one excellent writer, I wish he put out mre stuff.

http://www.younggodrecords.com/Artists/MichaelGira/

Just ordered it. Will tell you my thoughts when it arrives

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09-28-2003, 01:31 PM

Cool, its hard to not enjoy it.

Can't believe no one has said Neil Gaiman yet.

Surely one of the best.

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09-28-2003, 01:57 PM

Not in any particular order..but James Michener,Kurt Vonnegut,Jack Kerouac,Arthur C.Clarke,Robert Heinlein and lately
Tom Clancy are a few i have enjoyed.

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09-28-2003, 02:03 PM

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Cool, its hard to not enjoy it.

Can't believe no one has said Neil Gaiman yet.

Surely one of the best.

http://www.neilgaiman.com

That's who I was just gonna say. Him and Neil Stephenson are my two favorites.

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09-28-2003, 02:40 PM

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09-28-2003, 02:44 PM

I recently ordered some books by Dennis Lehane. He seems to be very good - a kind of modern Raymond Chandler.

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09-28-2003, 03:02 PM

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Bukowski [/B]

My all time favorite.

I also named my dog Kerouac for a reason ;)

I also like Salinger, Huxley, H.G. Wells, of course King, Burroughs, Poe, Lovecraft, C.S. Lewis.

Some of my favorite books of all time.
The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
Hollywood by Bukowski
The Stand by King
Brave New World by Huxley
spent a summer reading nothing but classics and enjoyed those immensely...
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journey to the Center ofthe Earth
War of the worlds
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Frankenstein *better than any movie EVER*
Dracula
Naked Lunch
9 Short Stories by Salinger
Catcher In The Rye by Salinger
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09-28-2003, 03:05 PM

Originally posted by quiet
also really like Betty Smith (A Tree Grows In Brooklyn) and Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes)...

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn is one of my all time favorite movies...such a classic.

Never read the book..I guess I should.

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09-28-2003, 03:05 PM

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My all time favorite.

Hollywood by Bukowski
Naked Lunch

Bukowski rules, few can do it the way he can. His novels are motivational.

As for Naked Lunch, Ive read The Soft machine, Junky, and The Wild Boys over and over. Burroughs gets me going. His Cities Of The Red Night trilogy is nice too. He does some really weird twisting of history in these...

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09-28-2003, 03:10 PM

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Bukowski rules, few can do it the way he can. His novels are motivational.

As for Naked Lunch, Ive read The Soft machine, Junky, and The Wild Boys over and over. Burroughs gets me going. His Cities Of The Red Night trilogy is nice too. He does some really weird twisting of history in these...

good stuff

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I've read a number of other Bukowski's, but Hollywood had me laughing my ass off.

As you said he is motivational. I finally learned to write because of him.
What I learned from him was to just be free and write about what's happening, how you feel at that moment, the sights the sounds, but don't try to be pretentious and sit down with a thesaurus and try to sound "educated," "artistic," etc.

There was a point in my life where I had iterally 1,000's of scribbled notes, poems, prose of just what was going on in my life at that moment.

I'd carry a pen and slips of paper everywhere I went, and whatever was going on in my head at that moment that's what went down...and it was some of the best writing I have ever done.

But it was all lost

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09-28-2003, 03:14 PM

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09-28-2003, 03:28 PM

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09-28-2003, 03:29 PM

oscar wilde, poe for sure, michelle west, cs lewis (well, the narnia books anyway), lloyd alexander, louisa may alcott, mark helprin - and you know, mario puzo isn't one of the great writers of our time, but his books are always entertaining. shit, i love the work of SO many writers.

i also love silent film autobiographies, but they're not really written by writers so i guess they don't count.

Fletch XXX, Neil Gaiman not only writes great stuff, but Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar are among my favorite all time villains ever! and of course Theodore Geisel

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09-28-2003, 03:43 PM

I can't pick a favorite. I love so many. I will say some authors appeal to me more than others. I'm hoping that Vonnegut comes out with at least one more book before he leaves the planet. I stopped reading Anne Rice because I got sick of her flowery language. I boycotted Stephen King for a while because I thought "IT" had a lame ending. I've read and performed a lot of Shakepeare but I have yet to read his entire catalog. I dig Tom Robbins.

Truth be told, I would really rather read non-fiction.

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09-28-2003, 03:54 PM

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09-28-2003, 10:03 PM

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I've read a number of other Bukowski's, but Hollywood had me laughing my ass off.

As you said he is motivational. I finally learned to write because of him.
What I learned from him was to just be free and write about what's happening, how you feel at that moment, the sights the sounds, but don't try to be pretentious and sit down with a thesaurus and try to sound "educated," "artistic," etc.

There was a point in my life where I had iterally 1,000's of scribbled notes, poems, prose of just what was going on in my life at that moment.

I'd carry a pen and slips of paper everywhere I went, and whatever was going on in my head at that moment that's what went down...and it was some of the best writing I have ever done.

But it was all lost

How'd you lose it?

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09-28-2003, 10:52 PM

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