Pynchon
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.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.
"We look at the world, at governments, across the spectrum, some with more freedom, some with less. And we observe that the more repressive the State is, the closer life under it resembles Death. If dying is deliverance into a condition of total non-freedom, then the State tends, in the limit, to Death. The only way to address the problem of the State is with counter-Death, also known as Chemistry." -- Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day
My favorite write has to be GK Chesterton. He wrote about everything, and I think he wrote it better than anyone else.
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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
Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised - American Proverb
William Faulkner for prose, as well as my all time favorite
John Milton for poetry
Samuel Beckett for playwright
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Faulkner and Nabokov for their complex skill and unique prose
I would have to say :
Guy de Maupassant
Charles Dickens
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Agatha Christie
P.G. Wodehouse (can never resist one of his)
Jane Austen
But there are such a huge amount of authors out there that I want to read that I'm sure my list will never be complete!
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!"
~ Oscar Wilde ~
I´m young and have not read that much yet but from what I´ve read so far I´ll have to say Tolkien. Lord of the Rings is a masterpiece.
It's a tie between James Joyce and Murasaki Shikibu
I haven't read much but I loved Dickens from the moment I got hold of Great Expectations and having read a few more of his novels I've got to say he is one of the best novelists of all time and surely my favourite.
Probably still Kafka. Others include De Maupassant, Borges and Dostoevsky.
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