oh, Fifth, Halldor Laxness is incomparable, he is also one of my top five.
oh, Fifth, Halldor Laxness is incomparable, he is also one of my top five.
"Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house, they are company and don't let me catch you remarking on their ways like you were so high and mighty."
- Dostoevsky
- Shakespeare
- Beckett
- Tolstoy
- Proust
Now Dostoevsky's most formidable rivals come together in my list: Tolstoy and Shakespeare. Let's see where it leads to.
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
Great thread! And Goethe makes my list. I'll put him first, although really these aren't ranked in order of preference. I'd be changing the order every few days.
1. Goethe
2. Dostoevsky
3. Thomas Hardy
4. Tagore
5. John Dickson Carr
Hardy seems to be making these lists quite a lot, I have a lot of time for Hardy especially with the likes of Jude and Tess, but for me his earlier works didn’t come close to this level of intensity, he's not consistant enough. I would personally choose Austen over Hardy for British prose due to her tight consistently across all of her works including Northanger Abbey. There would be several others to make the list before Hardy in British prose too I would put in Woolf, Emily Bronte, on the strength of one novel alone, perhaps Lawrence and maybe even my old friend Wilde. There maybe a case for Hardy in the top 25, maybe, but not in the top 5 surely?
Originally Posted by kelby_lake
kelby_lake; that's six authors, you have Dickens and Williams both on 2nd placeNo cheating now
Exactly!
Yes, of course.
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
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1. Goethe
2. Hugo
3. Tolkien
4. Moliere
5. Shakespeare
There is something about his work isn't there? I've only read one, The Atom Station and will read more, but I already am sure that he's one of my favourites.
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WhoopsI'll go back and change it!
EDIT:
In no order...
1- F Scott Fitzgerald
2- Tennessee Williams
3- Charles Dickens
4- Franz Kafka
5- Vladimir Nabokov (sorry Austen!)
Last edited by kelby_lake; 01-15-2009 at 01:27 PM.
Without thinking about it too much, my favourite authors in alphabetical order-
1. Austen
2. Bronte (Charlotte)
3. Dickens
4. Tolstoy (Though I've read only two of his works)
5. Shakespeare
Exit, pursued by a bear.
Okay, here's my top 5:
Selimović
Krleža
Kafka
Pushkin
Dostoevsky
If I had one more space available, it'd probably go to Danilo Kiš.
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Miroslav Krleža
In no Order
1. Dickens.
2. Franz Kafka .
3. Albert Camus.
4. Joseph Conrad. (talent vastly under appreciated)
5. Dostoevsky.
JRR Tolkien
Virginia Woolf
Sylvia Plath
Ernest Hemingway
Anne Sexton
but a few of my favorites...
Carving lucky charms out of these hard luck bones
My list:
DostoevskyDang, its hard to chose!
Hesse
Wilde
Dickens
Shakespeare
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty
~Albert Einstein
Let's see...
1. Nabokov
2. Fowles
3. Marquez
4. Caragiale (to add some of my own culture's flavour)
5. Sienkiewicz (for good memories)
Dostoevsky
Pushkin
Shakespeare
Nabokov
Hugo
com-pas-sion (n.) [ME. & OFr. <LL. (Ec.) compassio, sympathy < compassus, pp. of compati, to feel pity < L. com-, together + pali, to suffer] sorrow for the sufferings or trouble of another or others, accompanied by an urge to help; deep sympathy; pity
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