It seems that the more I read Hemingway the more I like and am amazed by him, so I'm gonna go with that.
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It seems that the more I read Hemingway the more I like and am amazed by him, so I'm gonna go with that.
leo tolstoy..........> william bulter Yeats ............> Edgar allan POE..........................>
I discovered today that Hemingway wrote a book set in Africa and now I'm totally going to read True at First Light. I'm excited.
Not too sure of mine. Maybe Oscar Wilde or Nick Hornby. Their prose is so amazing.
moose_gurl, have you ever read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad? That's a tale set in Africa, about a steamer that goes up the Congo, and is also a parallel of going deep into the dark intricate jungle of the human heart.
It's an awesome novella.
Ian McEwan, Poe, Wilde, Dumas...
No I haven't. I've heard of it, but I never knew what it was about. Now, it's on the list.
Thanks.
Nick Hornby is a unique writer. I read A Long Way Down and gave it a 7/10. I love his movies--About a Boy and High Fidelity are both really good. I thought the book was good but at times uninspired. Really good character development, and very interesting story-telling approach. Light-hearted, yet profound.
Oscar Wilde.
More to come soon. :p:
From my limited experience, E. E. 'Doc' Smith.
Dante and Milton. Currently, at least. Though, to the former at least, I seem to constantly return. Milton is a relatively new discovery in my life, on the other hand, whilst my connection with Dante goes back to my childhood. :D
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HERMANN HESSE
Friedrich Nietzsche, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Jack Kerouac, Marcel Proust, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jean-Paul Sartre, Henry Miller, and Arthur Rimbaud.
one of my favorite all-time writer:
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Feodor Dostoevsky
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Is it me, or is the resemblance to Jack Nicholson, like, uncanny? :idea:
pretty much Joyce & Borges, not quite the limited world.
No Madame X, although there's a hint of Nicholson, check this out!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by eyemaker
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Separated at birth ot what? :lol:
(Just scrape Simm's hair back, or pull Dosty's forward...........)
I say: William Faulkner.
Eleazar Famorcan in Health and Home and Christopher Marlowe because of Dr. Faustus...
Dostoyevsky consistently leads me into contemplation of self, society' rules and intrapersonal politics. I love reading this guy.
Evelyn Waugh is my personal favourite. I am in love with his beautiful, exquisite prose (he is also funnier than PG Wodehouse).
After Waugh comes Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Robert Graves, P G Wodehouse.
As for poetry, my personal favourite is Philip Larkin.
I cannot really pick *a* favorite, but for branding the American novel as an equal to the European: Melville, and as the penultimate bridge fusing this at the end of the 19th century, James; of the high modernists, tough but I have to cede to Proust, despite my affection for the Italians, and of the late 20th century, Lessing, Byatt, Gardner.
Fyodor Dostoevsky towers slightly above George Orwell for me. His writing style is freelance genius and the works I have read from him thus far are markedly impressive. The Idiot is probably the most complex novel I've ever read. Its remarkably difficult for me to fully grasp the implications of that novel...
I'd have to go with Camus being my personal favorite followed by Dostoevsky. Currently I'm finishing Swann's Way by Proust, and although at first his prose style was "different" to what I would normally read, I've grown to like him enough to add him to the list.
Orhan Pamuk
This will sound strange but probably William Godwin. Especially FLEETWOOD.
Couple of guys come to mind:
David Foster Wallace
William S Burroughs
Aldous Huxley
Don DeLillo
Dostoyevsky and Vonnegut
Probably I would have to say Kerouac, as his novels have so much feeling in them, and he had a good appreciation for beauty and was a very sensitive writer.
My favorite writer – and he never wrote and only spoke and who surpassed all and rose to a height few could. That is Osho and I am untiringly reading his discourses and each of them is stirring. He is an ocean of inspiration. If you read a particular writer you will read only one aspect of life but when you read Osho you will read a multiple discipline at the same time. He is a timeless person, a mystic. He has no match in this world
James Joyce and Dostoevsky, definitely.
That's a tough question to answer; I tend to find a point or idea of value in everything I read. In the majority of literary works, one may find one philosophically or morally important or striking sentence/idea after wading through fifty pages of stories - with different qualities or impact levels. My criteria for a writer who is particularly important to me is one who I find elements of the truth on each page, and this is very rare.
Novelists who fit this criteria include Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Chekhov (though maybe to a lesser extent than the others) Edgar Allan Poe, and Goethe. Philosophers would include, among others, Friedrich Nietzsche.
Having said that, based on my rather loose criteria, poets tend to be much more direct, due to them (usually) having less words with which to get across their point. Poe would also be included in this, however poets such as Rimbaud, Coleridge and Pushkin (also for his short stories) are particularly important to me.
I used to read much more fiction than I do now, as most of my time spent on the humanities involves the reading of pure philosophical work, however those are the writers who have contributed most to the development of my own personal philosophy.
Russian: Dostoyevski, Tolstoy, Czekhov, Gogol
British: Dickens, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Roald Dahl, Graham Greene
American: Poe, James, Wharton
Crime: A. C. Doyle, A. Christie
George Orwell....i think he deserves the credit
Pynchon
Guy De Maupassant, followed by Franz Kafka.
Stephen King criticized J.K.Rowling? I would like to criticize Stephen King. He really likes the word "damn". Literature is art, is the highest form of human civilization. How can he indulge himself to use that stupid word so frequently. A masterpiece of literature is a feast. It consists of many different dishes, of which some are made of cheap materials and some are made of expensive ones, but they are all elegantly and delicately cooked, and whille the guests are appreciating the favors of these food, they can still tell the raw material from which they are made. The words like "damn" really can not be presented to the guests because it is bad cooked and made the whole feast disgraced. I don't know whether other American writers also incline to this word or not, if so I will not touch American literature any more, I have got peevish of this word very much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phoenix_Tears
Shakespeare,Harold Pinter,George R R Martin,Robert Holdstock,Daniel Woodrell and Kelly Link.
As good as both Stephen King and J.K.Rowling are... I'd definitely admit that King has a bit of an ego.Quote:
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My favorite write has to be GK Chesterton. He wrote about everything, and I think he wrote it better than anyone else.
Nabokov, Kafka, Munro, Lowry, Coleridge, Keats, Dickinson, and my guilty pleasure Lord Dunsany
I bet you all enjoy a nice piece of stilton too while I make do with cheap cheddar....Agatha Christie, Chaucer, Enid Blyton and - Whizzer & Chips comics