Suggested additions to the Authors list

[Scheherazade]

Raymond Carver!

Remember, has to be pre 1923.

Not yet, I am afraid.

[Kyriakos]

Constantine Cavafy

Knut Hamsun

Jorge Luis Borges

[cafolini]

William Faulkner and Friedrich Nietzsche

Second that one and pay to see with Italo Calvino and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

[cafolini]

I also would like to include Lezama Lima, a Cuban writer for those who want to get a picture of what Cuba was when Castro kicked sordid Batista out.

[CarpeNixta]

Constantine Cavafy

I would love to have some of Kavafis works in here

[cafolini]

How about Michael Serres, of late, a philosopher who lately overcame philosophy and became one of the best postmodern thinkers on education.

[ellenc]

I would like to see the book list if there is one

thank you

[IntravenousJava]

Thomas Mann, Marcel Proust and James Joyce ("Dubliners")

[Sancho Panza]

Paul Auster, the genius who gave us The New York Trilogy.

[nancybella]

Where's Max Beerbohm?

[crusoe]

William S Burroughs anyone? And, yeah, definitely Chuck Palahniuk.

In my youth I read his books with great pleasure. In those days I only had access to german translations. "Junkie" and and a short story compilation about sientology were about my favourites.

[Dina12]

Pre 1923? Seriously. I believe the reason why so many kids hate to read is because we place too much emphasis on the classics. I respect classic literature but shouldn't we begin to be a bit more progressive about integrating modern literature into our discussions. No disrespect to you guys who run this forum, but I mean, we're not in school.

Anyhow, here are my suggestions.
Ayn Rand
John Updike
James Michener

Believe, I'm in school, modern 'literature' has been the death of me. I hate school because of it. Quite frankly there is a reason why people still read classics, modern literature just doesn't compare. The most recent novel I've read in the past few years of my own accord was slaughterhouse five. I'd like to keep it that way. The way I'd see it is that the modern world just is condusive to writing. It lacks real change so literature, like everything else, just immitates itself, over and over again until everything has been recycled so may times over that it no longer retains its former sparkle but is rather tarnished by untalented writing and unquestioning minds.

[Revolte]

Believe, I'm in school, modern 'literature' has been the death of me. I hate school because of it. Quite frankly there is a reason why people still read classics, modern literature just doesn't compare. The most recent novel I've read in the past few years of my own accord was slaughterhouse five. I'd like to keep it that way. The way I'd see it is that the modern world just is condusive to writing. It lacks real change so literature, like everything else, just immitates itself, over and over again until everything has been recycled so may times over that it no longer retains its former sparkle but is rather tarnished by untalented writing and unquestioning minds.

Well, a good story is a good story. I don't think the year makes any difference.

Legally they can't post certain works here that aren't their own, without permission due to copyright law.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

There's good literature from every time period, including the current one.

[Samsa]

François Rabelais.

I'd like to read Gargantua and Pantagruel. According to Wikipedia there are at least a couple of pre-20th century translations available.