What author(s) works do you read?
so you have a favorite author,right?
but what about the others you read?
hopefully you don't only read one author's books!
here are a few i read
1.Stephenie Meyer
2.Stephenie Laurens
3.Catherine Coulter
4.Nora Roberts
5.Lynn Kurland
and that's only the first five!
what's yours?
Find your dream and stick with it...or your life will have slipped past in a whisper with you still on the bottom.
I think this belongs to General Literature...
Anyway,obviously,it's wrong to limit yourself to one,or even five authors.That's why most of the people around here will tell you that there are just far too many authors to list.I can give you the list of,let's say,10 writers whose works I've been reading in the last couple of months:
Bulgakov
Bertrand Russell
Shakespeare
Tolstoy
Andrić
Eugenio Montale
De Nerval
Schiller
Singer
Borges
Noću, u intimnom, poluglasnom razgovoru sa samim sobom, nikako ne mogu zapravo logički opravdati zašto se u posljednje vrijeme toliko uzrujavam zbog ljudske gluposti.
Miroslav Krleža
I love Nora RobertsOriginally Posted by Beautifull
isn't she awesome?
Find your dream and stick with it...or your life will have slipped past in a whisper with you still on the bottom.
well these are the authors that seem 'safe' to me (from other works from the author I feel comfortable enough that the book wont be a bust)
-dostoevsky
-camus
-saroyan
Dostoevsky
Franz Kafka
Charles Bukowski
Albert Camus
Kurt Vonnegut
Haruki Murakami
Kobo Abe
Vonnegut was, at one time, my favorite. He's not anymore, as I've read a lot of other authors since (but I still love his books as much as ever).
Nice list, Trystan.
Mine is like this:
Dostoevsky
Kafka
Murakami
Ibsen
Hamsun
Albert Camus
John Irving
Daniel Quinn
Last edited by Saladin; 05-23-2008 at 09:54 PM.
Gabriel García Márquez
Charles Dickens
Shakespeare
George Orwell...
Despite the snow,
Despite the falling snow.
It is a shame that I feel the best two authors of the last one hundred years wrote in Sapnish. Being Cuban American I know there are many Spanish idioms that simply dont translate into English well, much more so than French. I think the shame is, I read for pleasure and for growth in English. (My only three serviceable languages)
Gabriel Garcia Marques
Borges
Dostoevsky
Peter Singer
Jacques Derrida
Camus
Kafka
Achebe
Vonnugut (I once read a critique of Vonnugut somewhere say that he is a great read for five year olds, that he is simply a conduit to the literary world. That being said, I think most critics are insanely jelous of Vonnugut's humor and success. You can not be taught humor, you can not practice it, and you can not hone it. It just is. And in those very rare cases, someones humor translates perfectly into their writing. Thus we have Vonnugut.)
Bukowski
and finally Hemingway, the guy who got me into literature as an art and not as a philosophical exercise.
I am surprised no one has yet mentioned Thomas Mann.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Antiquarian, no Shakespeare or Jane Austen or Brontes or Henry James? Some of those are the books with adaptations/period films you view so avidly. Was talking to my good friend last night, on the phone and guess what? She loves William Trevor, also. I must check out his writing soon.
I have to take the time to formulate my own list on this thread.
Last edited by Janine; 05-24-2008 at 03:37 PM.
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
This thread is a little silly, it would take too long to list all the names of authors I have read, and do read. If you are looking for recommendations just ask.
Here's my list, although t I do not limit myself to these authors.
Stephenie Meyer
Shakespeare
Plath
Hesse
N.Gaiman
T.Pratchett
O. Scott Card
Anne Rice
S.Westerfield
A. Rand
R.Bradbury
Tolkien
D.Adams
Nietzche
Libba Bray
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Kishimoto
and the list goes on.........
Shall these bones live?
Well, I have a great many works of many different writers, but I suppose that my list will consist of the names of the people whom I have read majority, if not all, of their stories (and some of them I have read more than once):
Jane Austen
E.M. Forster
Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Brontes
Shakespeare
Oscar Wilde
C.S. Lewis
Charles Dickens
Evelyn Waugh
Louisa May Alcott
Wilkie Collins
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Elizabeth Gaskell
Edgar Allan Poe
P.G. Wodehouse
among others
Here's a short list of the unconventional authors I enjoy:
1 Walter Moers
2 Daniel M. Pinkwater
3 Hunter S. Thompson
4 John Moore
5 Stephan Zielinski
You'd be hard-pressed to find a more original author than Walter Moers. That said, some of his stuff is parody so you'll notice intentional (satiric) theft, especially in The City of Dreaming Books.
If Walter Moers had lived a few hundred years ago, his works would now be considered classics. But nowadays it's hard to make a classic, so he'll probably be forgotten by 2050.
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