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Originally Posted by Granny5
Call me a weeping willow, but I like Sylvia Plath...I loved her dark sense of humour in The Bell Jar and I really love her evocative style.
P.G. Wodehouse is another favourite, without a doubt. Hilarious comedies with feel-good endings. His jokes and turns of phrase have made me laugh out loud on the bus more than once.
Jane Austen also has a great sense of humour, as well as a great way of creating characters...to the point that someone actually wrote an entire book about Mr Collins alone.
My favourite writers are Friedrich Hölderlin and Franz Kafka, the former due to his hauntingly beautiful writing style combined with the highest ideals and an ethereal character, the latter more because of his topics, his disillusionment, simply the way he describes reality.
There are many more writers that I thoroughly enjoy, but those two are my absolute ikons. I feel a strong affinity to both their personalities and biographies. Noone describes the world how it is better than Kafka, and noone can compare to Hölderlin when it comes to how the world should be.
Dostoevsky, Hugo, Tolstoy.
A tie between Hesse and Kafka.Two of the greatest writers of the XX century,in my opinion.
Steinbeck,Faulkner,Dostoevsky,Hugo,and Vonnegut.
poet would be Pablo Neruda... Writer is Dostoevsky... and there are so many others I love as well but these two first and foremost...
Tolstoy, Goethe, Pushkin
Stephen King. Now, before you pounce on me, he is my favorite to read, that doesn't mean I think he is a great author. Just fun stories to read. Now, as for who I appreciate most for there literary talent, I'm not sure. I haven't read enough yet.
My top five is Hemingway, Beckett, Kafka, Camus, Chekhov and those tend to remain the same, but yeah I also love Faulkner, Dostoevsky, Bukowski, Salinger, Flaubert, Hunter S Thompson, P K Dick...
Emily Dickinson would have to be one of my favorite writers, she puts deep feelings into her poetry and has been recognized for it.
well i read not that much and many of the books mentioned above i am just planning to read but i think i can mention some:
F. Dostoevsky, J. Steinbeck, Shakespeare, Hemingway, Harper Lee, Turgenyev, Orwell, Woolf, and many others
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Faulkner is my all-time favorite, then Shakespeare, J.M. Coetzee, and Vonnegut. I have a taste for South African literature or literature set in South Africa or South African writers, like Coetzee and Doris May Lessing. My favorite themes are usually ones that deal with race (Faulkner, Coetzee, Lessing)...I don't really have an explanation for this, maybe it's being raised in the South that did that to me, but it happened that way, and I just find those books fascinating. But Faulkner takes my cake.
P.S. I also really loved The Bell Jar. I am hesitant when it comes to female authors, and I don't like much of Plath's poetry, but I just really related to Esther Greenwood (heroine) in a way that's almost scary, and so I absolutely adored that book. It's probably one of my top 20. Just incredible.