Is anyone else a big fan of Robert Olen Butler? He won the Pulitzer in '93 for "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain" and his new book "A Small Hotel" looks amazing. I love how he manages to keep reinventing himself.
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Is anyone else a big fan of Robert Olen Butler? He won the Pulitzer in '93 for "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain" and his new book "A Small Hotel" looks amazing. I love how he manages to keep reinventing himself.
yes great list ...This discrepancy confirms that book-purchasers and book-borrowers, if not exactly distinct communities, are separated by huge gaps of age, preference and prejudice....
I would have Faulkner at the top, followed by Kafka, Dostoyevsky, and Joyce in any order then Shakespeare rounding out the top 5. I realize Shakespeare at 5 is borderline seditious to many of you, but all of the aforementioned are writers of prodigious talent, with my order predicated on the degree to which they inspired me.
I say this in the nicest way possible, but I stopped reading after I saw Shakespeare at #2...
Very interesting, thank you for enlisting so many authors I'll have to treat me some christmas presents from this list
There're so many authors I like very much!
Do modern day story tellers count in all of this? While this is a literature forum the question was best authors. I put in my vote for Stieg Larrson, and J.K. Rowling. You can all laugh at my choices but I believe them to be valid.
Thank you for your observation. I didn't say that they are bad, I am just pointing that in other parts of world (because this is mostly USA based forum) people more prefer other writers and thus, list is like it is. Remember, people voted for it and the results are here. They were pretty expected to me, to be honest.Quote:
Originally Posted by hampusforev
Pa nije imao dovoljno glasova, samo jedan ili tako nešto, nedovoljno za ulaz na listu :biggrin5:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobo Vrba
Everyone was included.Quote:
Originally Posted by charlieh
Just that list is enough to give you hope.
I don't really understand why some people are getting so bent out of shape over this list. Of course everyone isn't going to agree on best authors (or books). I look at it as a starting point. There are some authors that I personally would've placed higher, or lower, but there are also some that I'm not familiar with. Looking forward to checking them out and see if I like them as well.
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So glad to see Dostoevsky, Dickens and Tolstoy where they are. And Jane Austen's my second favourite author but I think it's hilarious that she's in sixth place. Captain Wentworth anyone?
The first five should be:
1. Homer
2. Virgil
3. Dante
4. Cervantes
5. Shakespeare
It seems to me that we can debate about the order but I don't see others in the top five :P
No Sophocles??? All Top 100 lists are bogus.
Why the need to rate people at all?
What about Cocteau and Gide? Noone's mentioned them, if I'm not mistaken.
This essentially is a highest voted list but still a very nice ranking.