Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky
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Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky
i know i am way past february 14th but id say:Quote:
Originally Posted by bazarov
1. charles dickens
2. james fenimore cooper
3. robert louis stevenson
4. mark twain
5. tie between john steinbeck and arthur conan doyle
and i pick them, not so much because im intimately knowledgeable about what it means to be a "great author" or the "best writer", but rather, that i enjoy their books so much.
As am I-- yet:
1. James Joyce - the accomplishments of Ulysses and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man are extremely difficult to ignore-- despite finnegans wake. I've already rambled on about him enough...
2. Dostoevsky - objectively the BEST writer I have ever seen. His styles range hugely from The Brothers Karamazov (my personal favorite work of his) to Notes from the Underground to everything in between (Crime and Punishment and a slew of others); yet he isn't #1 in my mind because he doesn't have the sheen, the polish that Joyce does in his writing. I could spend weeks upon weeks dissecting any point in Brothers Karamazov yet I could spend the entirety of my life studying Joyce and still not entirely understand it.
3. Marcel Proust - by FAR the most philosophical and in-depth writer I have ever seen, yet he doesn't make too much of a point in his entire series of novels (perhaps that's the point; it's so incredibly long that you end up right back where you started), hence why he's not higher.
4. Walt Whitman - you may hate me for picking a rather obscure (well, by top 5 standards) author but to me he represents poetry in its own true, unbridled form. Unimpeded by laws of poetry and or reason, his style just seems to intrinsically flow from page to page: a style I envy.
5. Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita is a fabulous work that is often misunderstood by idiotic professors who focus on how manipulative HH is rather than how inherently sad his entire situation is (lover dying at such an earlier age, etc...).
huh, who woulda known: three of my picks are in the 20th century...
1. F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Shakespeare
3. Ernest Hemingway
4. Sinclair Lewis
5. Frank Norris
My five picks in no order:
F. Dostoevsky
E. Hemmingway
L. Tolstoy
P. Roth
H. Murakami
Was I too late?
I'm too late too, but:
1. Marcel Proust
2. Shakespeare
3. D.H. Lawrence
4. Thomas Hardy
5. Jane Austen
You're not late; just keep posting.
When are you going to post the final List baz? :) I'm quite excited:D
James Joyce
Having just read 'The Dead' from 'Dubliners', I can appreciate your nomination.Quote:
Originally Posted by dodoshady
I got tired of waiting for Bazarov to post the scores; so I went and tallied them myself. As of right now, here is how things stand.
1.Dostoyevski (25)
2.Shakespeare (24)
3.Dickens (12)
4.Tolstoy (9)
5.Steinbeck (9)
6.Hemingway (7)
7.Austen (7)
8.Proust (7)
9.Hardy (6)
10.Nabokov (6)
11.Joyce (6)
12.Hugo (5)
13.Dante (5)
14.Kafka (5)
15.Tolkien (5)
16.Faulkner (5)
17.Bronte, Charlotte (4)
18.Homer (4)
19.Wilde (4)
20.Pushkin (4)
21.Eliot (3)
22.Fitzgerald (3)
23.Salinger (3)
24.Marquez (3)
25.Selimovic (2)
26.Krleza (2)
27.Doyle (2)
28.Keats (2)
29.Poe (2)
30.Lawrence (2)
31.Eco (2)
32.Milton (2)
33.Ellis (2)
34.Vonnegut (2)
35.Stevenson (2)
36.Ibsen (2)
37.Conrad (2)
38.Turgenev (2)
39.Gogol (2)
40.Murakami (2)
41.Beckett (2)
42.Goethe (2)
43.Camus (2)
44.Woolf (2)
45.Hesse (2)
46.Gaskell (2)
47.Orwell (2)
48.Twain (2)
49.Racine (1)
50.Ovid (1)
Wow, that was uninteresting :p Thanks for the work though.
Unbelievable. Mortal, you were the one who wanted this thread to stay opened for months; remember?
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