Novelists so far I've liked. I have yet to read others. :)
Ray Bradbury
Richard Bach
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Harper Lee
Poetists
Pablo Neruda
E. E. Cummings
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Novelists so far I've liked. I have yet to read others. :)
Ray Bradbury
Richard Bach
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Harper Lee
Poetists
Pablo Neruda
E. E. Cummings
Eco, Eco, Eco, Eco. The rest is Eco... :D
My favourite writers are:
Katherine Paterson
JK Rowling
Emily Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Austen
George Eliot
Betty Smith
Edgar Allen Poe
Dramatist: Ibsen, Tennessee Williams & GB Shaw
Poet:Rabindranath Tagore, William Wordsworth,Emily Dickinson, Nissim Ezekiel, Dom Moraes and many more.
Fiction writers:Helen Dunmore,R.K.Narayan,Charlotte Bronte,Jhumpa Lahiri and many more...
It's a long list actually!
Vidyanjali
Hemingway, Tolstoy, Miller, Steinbeck, Dostoyevsky, Cervantes, Melville, Cronin, and, and, and...... Dang it, I'll post again when I can narrow it down to merely a handful. Don't hold your breath on that happening anytime soon though.
Am currently reading Measure for Measure. As I have only reached scene 4, I don't want to jump in to conclusion that I like Shakespeare (I never "liked" his works other than the sonnets). Yet, I found this play quite amusing. So I suppose I'll wait till I finish and then I'll decide whether it'll be my first and last play, or I'll be tempted to read other plays.
oh, I forgot Charles Dickens. He is also one of my favourites.
Dostoevsky and Hemingway, yes.. , and Pramoedya Ananta Toer
I'm going to sidestep your question a bit and tell you the funniest writer I ever read.
It used to be Hunter S. Thompson until I read "The Ginger Man," a novel by J. P. Donleavy (who not coincidentally happened to be Thompson's favorite writer.)
"The Ginger Man" is insanely hilarious. While reading it, I laughed so hard I got a stomach ache. It's about an American married to a young British woman and going to college in Ireland. The plot is a strange combination of the mundane and the bizarre: drunken pub crawls and private parties, the reek of body odor because no one seems to own a bath tub, dodging landlords due to lack of rent money, sodomistic infidelity with campus girls, twisted Irish humor about bestiality and incest, etc.
Oddly enough, "The Ginger Man" made the list of the 100 most important novels published in the 20th century.
Mikhail Artsybashev-Sanin, Nietzsche, Dante, Donne, Gaiman, and of course- Dahl :D
Anne Rice. Without a doubt, she's my all time favorite!
Well... I've only recently renewed my fervor for literature.
what a feeling.
It seems like I fall for every writer that comes my way. Even if the novel isn't particularly good as a whole, there always seems to be some great germs in it someplace.
Right now, for me, it's Hemmingway.
I like Faulkner too.
Hemmingways style is neat.
I've not heard much of anyone mention hemmingway on this board yet.
How do you feel about Hemmingway?
Georgette Heyer, Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time series), Jane Austen, Shakespeare, Trudi Canavan, Terry Pratchett.
And a big round of applause for all the people who said steven king or JK Rowling! This is a literature forum, not just for 'classics'.
It's PC party line today to knock Hemingway as an over-rated writer, mean drunk and wife abuser, but I still enjoy his writing. I started reading Hemingway when I was a teenager and I loved his concise style and snappy dialogue. He definitely had his limits as a writer, but he worked very hard to become a craftsman of modern fiction. And he strongly influenced a whole generation of American writers more than Faulkner or Steinbeck.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Hard Rain
I think the novel of purest Hemingway is "The Old Man and the Sea." He wrote it at age 54 after most critics thought he was burned out as a writer. The book won the Pulitzer Prize, which helped to propel Hemingway to the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Because he wrote so much about war, Hemingway has been unfairly criticized as a warmonger. But no warmonger would write this: "In modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason."
Like many authors, Hemingway had two distinct identities. One was the public personna he invented to keep the world at arm's length: macho big-game hunter, deep-sea fisherman, soldier of fortune, etc. The other was a rather sensitive introverted man given to philosophical reflection. Real macho men don't sit alone for hours every day and dream up fictional characters to write about.
Pre-1923
Charlotte Bronte
Charles Dickens
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Arthur Conan Doyle
Alexandre Dumas
George Eliot
Herman Melville
Leo Tolstoy
Post
William Faulkner
William Golding
Joseph Heller
Guy Gavriel Kay
Daniel Keyes
George R.R. Martin
James A. Michener
James Jones
Philip Roth
John Steinbeck
Neal Stephenson
John Updike
Connie Willis