ITT: Your 5 favourite writers

>>5491573

you :)

>>5491577
xD and you

>>5491580
and you :3

Tolkien, Rowling

this thread = epic, simply epic

Vladimir Nabokov
James Joyce
Jorge Luis Borges
Arthur Rimbaud
Emily Dickinson

>having favorite writers

maximum pleb

Stendhal
Kenzaburo Oe
Nietzsche
Bataille
Dostoevsky

God and Moses

Italo Calvino
Leo Tolstoy
Virginia Woolf
Marcel Proust
Homer

>>5491611
>6 writers
>king
>fucking rowling
i r8 it an 8th

Rowling, Cervantes, Lovecraft, Poe, Frost

>>5491614
Yeah yeah, I can't count. Swamped with college stuff and sleep deprived.

>>5491573
Joyce
Fitzgerald
Faulkner
Pynchon
Bukowski

Joyce because he is fucking Joyce

Fitzgerald because he was the first writer who I was compelled to read the entire bibliography of, and enjoyed it all. He had some fuckin' prose, yo.

Faulkner for his ability to capture Southern Gothic in it's most epic potential.

Pynchon for his unorthodox style and his evolution of plot, theme, and he taught many, including me, the hard way that rules were meant to be broken in literature.

Bukowski for the heart, the realism, and the brutal unregulated honesty in saying whatever the fuck it is he wants to say

(favorites is a completely different list compared to who I think are the 5 greatest writers)

clark ashton smith X5

Martín Adán
Fyodor Dostoyevski
Roberto Arlt
Homer
Joseph Contad

>>5491573
Platonov
Dostoyevski
Flaubert
Joyce
Kafka

Franz Kafka
James Joyce
Raymond Carver
Hubert Selby Jr
Harlan Ellison

>>5491573
Time to break up the /lit/ circle jerk with some of those less jerked and circled.

Osamu Dazai
Yukio Mishima
Herman Hesse
Walt Whitman

And going out on a limb here:
Ray Bradbury

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Nietzsche
D. H. Lawrence
Goethe
Machiavelli
Melville

Kurt Vonnegut
Chuck Palahniuk
Jack Kerouac
Sylvia Plath
Hunter S Thompson

Easy

Nabokov
Baudelaire
Proust
John Manjiro
TS Eliott

>>5491700
>Kerouac
>Plath

man and woman PMSing

>>5491833
Thesis
Antithesis
Synthesis

>>5491700
noooooo donnnn't

>>5491687
What do you recommend from mishima?

Im not from here but I wanna add my faves:
Alessandro Baricco
Mia Couto
Haruki Murakami
David Foster Wallace
William Gibson

Tao Lin
Tao Lin
Tao Lin
Tan Lin
Tao Lin

Stendhal
Stefan Zweig
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mikhail Lermontov
Jules Vernes

>>5491573
Vladimir Nabokov
Thomas Pynchon
Franz Kafka
Don DeLillo
Ursula Le Guin

>Pynchon
>Gaddis
>Calvino
>Swift
>Borges
>McElroy is real purdy but I've only read one of his books

>>5491625
>Bukowski for the heart, the realism, and the brutal unregulated honesty in saying whatever the fuck it is he wants to say

Bukowski fakes realism with vulgarity

he's a fraud

Dostoevsky
Dante
Nietzsche
Plato
Milton

>>5491977

>safe choices here pls don't judge meee :^)

James Frey
Dante
Vandermeer

sadly I'm just a newb

Plato
James Paterson
Dan Brown
Stephanie Meyers
Ayn Rand

>>5491573
Dostoevsky
Nietzsche
Camus
Vonnegut
Cormac McCarthy

>>5491573
Racine
Corneille
Mallarmé
Kafka
Sophocles

It's a sad day when /tv/ has explored their respective medium far more than /lit/ has.

>>5491573
Umberto Eco
Thomas Pynchon
Marilynne Robinson
Salman Rushdie
Italo Calvino

At least, that's today's list.

Still kinda entry level but here goes:
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Hermann Hesse
Albert Camus
Thomas Bernhard
Yukio Mishima
(sixth would be Kafka)

>>5491573

Max Stirner
Sancho Panza
Sankt Max
Johann Caspar Schmidt

>>5491573
Wyndham
Wilde
Vonnegut
Dostoevsky
Selby Jr.

>>5491573
Genesis Q author (muh indeterminate-waifu)
Kafka
Borges
Calvino
Lem

>>5491687
This :>>5491952
Bukowski is pleb tier
How could some people consider him as a "poet"?

>>5491573
Ayn Rand
Richard Dawkins
Sam Harris
Christopher Hitchens
Daniel Danett

Baudelaire
Dostoyevsky
Herman Hesse
Nietzsche
Victor Hugo

>>5491952
>>5492454

As somebody who read a fair amount of Bukowski, I agree. Bukowski's somebody who writes hard-boiled fiction, essentially, but the detective's unemployed. He only has heart because he writes everything around him as heartless, and he never shows himself as such. He's not realistic for the same reason. He might be honest, but if he is honest he's honest about himself, his own experiences, and he extrapolates from them to an entire world, the limits of which he never touched, or the touching of which he failed to express.

>>5491687
>claims to be breaking up the circle jerk of /lit/
>lists both Mishima and Hesse

Wow.

Gore Vidal
Isaac Asimov
Thomas Pynchon
Graham Greene
Hunter S. Thompson

Hemingway
Salinger
Montaigne
Dostoyesky
Poe

>>5491625
>the hard way that rules were meant to be broken in literature.

If you still think that, you're an immature idiot.

Inferior rules are broken to obey superior ones. That's all there is. Otherwise you're doing pomo shit that nobody cares about and isn't remotely interesting.

Breaking rules is what noobs do. You'd find it shit if a noob did the exact same thing that a master did.

That should tell you something.

Dean Koontz
Stephen King
Clive Cussler
HG Wells
?

>>5492373

It's not sad. Most c/lit/toris-lickers come here first, read books second, so all they read is DFW and Pynchon, and they understand nothing because they can't read at all, but they'll pretend they did to be one of the boys.

Out of the centuries of world literature, only about ten names are continuously discussed on this board, if you can call it a discussion.

Literature, discussed in a medium for memes, does not fare well.

>>5491687
>Time to break up the /lit/ circle jerk with some of those less jerked and circled
>less jerked
>mishima
newfag, you're fucking retarded.

1. Nabokov
2. Dostoyevsky
3. Baldwin
4. Hemingway
5. Dickens

Hunter S. Thomson
Tao Lin
Ray Bradbury
Dean Koontz
Terry Pratchet


Bit of a mix I know

>>5491615
m'lady

Joyce
Kafka
Dostoyevsky
Keats
Whitman

Special mention for Knut Hamsun and Virginia Woolf.

>>5492819
>Special mention for Knut Hamsun and Virginia Woolf.
No one gives a shit, faggot.

Reading is for faggots lol

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>>5492484
>No Joyce

/lit is shithole infested with philosophical faggots

The fat lady who wrote that book about vampires starring Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise

The other fat lady who wrote that other book about vampires

The English lady who wrote that book about gay wizards

The rich lady who wrote that book about God and food and cheating on her husband

That (presumably) fat lady who writes my favorite Naruto erotic fanfic

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>>5492940
8/10

In no particular order

>James Joyce
>WB Yeats
>Thomas Pynchon
>Vladimir Nabokov
>e.e cummings

>>5492819
3/4
+Joyce Kafka Dostoy
-Whitman

Bonus points for Knut Hamsun

Samuel Beckett
Dostoyevski
Faulkner

haven't read much of others (Joyce, Flaubert, Mann, Camus 1 novel each, and looking forward to more)

what would you recommend?

* Dostoievski

* Milan Kundera

* JL Borges

* Camus (inb4 nice meme bro)

* Jean Anouilh