ITT Your 5 favorite writers

>>5781813

DeLillo
O'Connor
Faulkner
Chandler
Munro

Justify me or make me feel weak everyone! I must have your attention.

Oscar Wilde
Vladimir Nabokov
J.D. Salinger
Arthur Rimbaud
Jorge Luis Borges

Prepare to hate me:

Bret Easton Ellis
Charles Bukowski
Dennis Cooper
William S Burroughs
Shirley Jackson

>>5781853
>Charles Bukowski

ugh

>>5781861
Out of that list you single out Bukowski?!

>>5781871

Not that guy but my hate for Bukowski is at least partially motivated by the fact that the only people who come into the store where I work to buy his stuff are always first-year undergrads who I hear boasting about the books they read to their embarrassed looking friends

George Orwell
Dr. Seuss

>>5781813

Thomas Pynchon
Vladimir Nabokov
Franz Kafka
Marcel Proust
Meryvyn Peak

>>5781945
/lit/ - the embodiment

Borges
Faulkner
Shakespeare

And then maybe Kafka, Hemingway or Vargas Llosa.

Hermann Hesse
Albert Camus
Simone de Beauvoir
Alejandra Pizarnik


Quite pleb, but I am currently leveling.

>>5781818
What is your age?

Non-pleb list, I guess.

>>5781820
Sincere post, I think. Good list, you must be around 20, maybe less.

>>5781853
Too much American.

>>5781965
Simple and profound. Nice. But probably you're just pretending.

>>5781813
pynchon
joyce
foster wallace
tao lin
mccarthy

>>5782004
>authority on what's good

This guy.

>>5782008
Man, I'm just giving attention to other Anon's posts. My post is >>5781998, do whatever you want. Like, what's your plan? Post things here and expect nobody to comment them?

Well, okay.

grillparzer
goethe
hoelderlin
holz
rilke

mmm

Borges
Melville
Dostoevski
Salgari
Sebald

Franz Kafka
Jorge Luis Borges
Herman Melville
Shakespeare
Laurence Sterne

>>5781813
Huysmans
Boileau
Gogol
Corneille
Horace

>>5781890
I think a vast majority of people miss what Bukoski is about. His books are essentially trials of the human spirit: shitty childhood, shitty adulthood. They're not big, they're not clever, but the common theme is there.

of course you identify with him if you share some of his experiences. Ive had bouts of bad skin and identified with the passages he wrote about the self-conscious emotions.

he's not the best and I think he's partly responsible for the tumblr-core poetry but theyre piss poor and bad imitations.

>>5781813
Dostoyevsky
Wolfe
Lewis
Dante
Dick

Pynchon
Foster-Wallace
Kafka
Melville
Sebald

Nabokov
Orwell
Shakespeare
Tolstoy
Dickens

>>5781813
Joyce
Pound
Elliot
Camus
Proust

>>5781950
lol

Borges
Beckett
Vian
Burroughs
Pynecone

>>5782294

I like you: you have a great taste. My list is almost exactly like yours:

Nabokov
Shakespeare
Tolstoy
Dickens

And for the 5th name:

Chekhov

Or Gabriel García Márquez, but I think Chekhov has a greater number of masterpieces than him.

I haven't really read enough of any author to say that I like his work as a whole. I've read many of Kafka's short stories, but neither The Castle nor The Trial (I started once, the German was too heavy). I like Strindberg's prose (swefag), but I've only ever finished Inferno.

Five authors I'd like to know better:

Strindberg
Zola
Bulgakov
Thomas Mann
Gorkij

>>5782421
You can read Thomas Mann but not Kafka? I always found his multi-clause sentences quite difficult to follow...

Dostoevsky
Kafka
Pessoa
Céline
Carlos Drummond de Andrade

>>5781813

George Orwell
George Orwell

George Orwell
George Orwell

>>5782294
>>5782547
>Orwell
*sigh*

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Pynchon
Faulkner
Melville
Joyce
McCarthy

Can't speak for non-english language writers.

Gertrude Stein x5

I'm a huge Orson Welles

Steinbeck
Vargas Llosa
Brett easton Ellis
Hemingway
Junger

Asimov
Vidal
Greene
Pynchon
Gardner

>>5782919

8/10
It's been so long

Dostoevsky
Joyce
Hemingway
Kerouac
Ellison

Nabokov
Yeats
Pynchon
Kafka
Shakespeare

R.L Stine
K.A. Applegate
Suzanne Collins
J.K. Rowling
Veronica Roth

>>5781813
J.K Rowling
Stephen King
George R.R Martin
Pynchon
John Green :33333

>>5782007
#sopomo #modernlyfe #hehe

>>5782244
Of course they're piss poor imitations. They're imitating piss. You said yourself all of his work is one theme. It was cool for a short story or two, but c'mon man write about something new after the thirty millionth time. He's a one trick pony and it gets stale. Plus he has no technical skill; I would hardly call his poems actual poetry.

>>5782312
Ur cool. Misspelled Eliot though

>>5781813
Pynchon
Denis Johnson
Philip K. Dick
Tolstoy
Gogol

>>5782960
>>5782954
>>5782945
>>5782932
>>5782906
>>5782363
>>5782294
>>5782265
>>5782164
heh, plebs

>>5782960

you sure are a /lit/erate memer

>>5782971
+2 Pynchon, Green
-1 GRR Martin

Tao Shui Lin
David Lobsters Wallace
Nabob Coffee
Juiyce

>>5781998
>Alejandra Pizarnik
any eng translations of hers available?

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GK Chesterton
Niccolo Machiavelli
David McCullough
Winston Churchill
William L Shirer

James Joyce
Edward Albee
Richard Wright
Samuel Beckett
Georg Buchner

Pleb coming through
Hunter S. Thompson
Bret Easton Ellis
Alan Moore
C.D. Payne
McCarthy

>>5783226
>Winston Churchill

Fag

>>5783141
No idea, I'm Spanish so... But it must be. I am reading now "Complete prose".

C'mon it's just in the Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandra_Pizarnik#Books

>>5781813
Pynchon
Calvino
Milton
Borges
Tolstoy

Kerouac
Ginsberg
Burroughs
Bukowski
Rimbaud

Please, rate my great taste.

>>5783238
>/notpolite/

Ken Kesey
Miguel de Cervantes
Franz Kafka
Gabriel García Márquez
Yukio Mishima

>>5783265
Where should I start with Marquez.

>>5782547
ORWELL
R
W
E
L
L

>>5783298
All of his works are accessible. Just jump right in to whatever seems interesting. I went straight to 100yrs of solitude and then went from there to Innocent Erindera

>>5783308
Thanks.

Nicanor Parra
Yukio Mishima
Fiodor Dostoievsky
Enrique Lihn
Franz Kafka

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DH Lawrence
Earnest Hemingway
Charles Dickens
Martha Gellhorn
Iain Banks

Woolf
Dostoevsky
Styron
Tolstoy
Austen

>>5781813
Pynchon
Dostoyevsky
Tolstoy
Houellebecq
Zweig

Proust
Kafka
Nabokov
Woolf
Melville

Roberto Bolaño
Cormac McCarthy
Denis Johnson
Celine
Hemingway

Bolano
Borges
Montaigne
Calvino
Tolstoy

Tolstoy
Nabokov
Faulkner
Gabo
Tolkien

>>5781818
4/10
>>5781820
8/10
>>5781853
2/10
>>5781931
4/10
>>5781945
6/10
>>5781965
5/10
>>5781998
7/10
>>5782007
6/10
>>5782022
7/10
>>5782164
4/10
>>5782218
7/10
>>5782243
6/10
>>5782245
6/10
>>5782265
7/10
>>5782294
8/10
>>5782312
7/10
>>5782363
7/10
>>5782381
7/10
>>5782421
5/10
>>5782535
6/10
>>5782547
2/10
>>5782906
6/10
>>5782932
5/10
>>5782945
4/10
>>5782954
6/10
>>5782960
7/10
>>5782965
0/10
>>5782971
2/10
>>5783020
6.5/10
>>5783226
4/10
>>5783233
6/10
>>5783246
8/10
>>5783247
5.5/10
>>5783265
6.5/10
>>5783315
4.5/10
>>5783318
6/10
>>5783319
7/10
>>5783327
6/10
>>5783333
6.5/10
>>5783344
5.5/10
>>5783371
7/10
>>5783378
4/10

Shakespeare
T.S Eliot
Borges
Kafka
Dostoevsky

>>5782535
>Pessoa
>Carlos Drummond de Andrade
10/10

>>5783440
Thank you.

>>5783440

I'm >>5781998, can you recommend me something to level up?

LOL this is pitiful

the same fucking 5 authors over and over

get some originality plebs

You all have the same taste

Kafka dosto eliot joyce nabokov

or

bukowski kerouac thompson burroughs ellis

Read more

>>5783491
Which list is yours?

>>5783494
Please post your list. It's easy to pass judgement from a distance, but you would be very courageous to inject your opinion into the discussion.

>>5781820
>>5781945
>>5782294
>>5782381
>>5782960
>>5783333
>>5783378
>Nabokov

He is such a purple prose fucking tasteless hack.


>>5782363
>Burroughs
>>>/lgbt/

>>5783542
>He is such a purple prose fucking tasteless hack.

:^)

>>5783542

muh Dostoyevsky

Kurt Vonnegut
Cormac McCarthy
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Varlam Shalamov
...not sure. George RR Martin?

>>5782245
Which Wolfe?

>>5783567
Vonnegut is fucking terrible.

>>5783567
>Vonnegut
>George RR Martin

Just.. just terrible.

>>5783440
>7/10
fuck you

>>5781813
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Franz Kafka
Vladimir Nabokov
Oscar Wilde
F. Scott Fitzgerald

>>5783440
6/10
for the impartial rigour shown in rating the Orwell post.

>>5783572
Rose :3

>>5783542
>>5783542
>He is such a purple prose fucking tasteless hack.
love this meme

>>5783633
The meme is thinking Nabokov has anything to offer other than le edgy SAT words

>>5783646
Nice meme

>>5783666
>I am personally insulted that you know a shit author is shit and I will use le maymays to defend absolutely nothing

top kek faggot
>>>/pol/

>>5783669
nice meme

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>>5783669
this memer is on a rampage!

>>5782979
There's a fine line between being a one-trick pony and having a style though, which is broadly applicable to most artistic ventures. I take him for what he is but I wouldn't call him amazing. He got me into serious reading though so I'm a little biased.

>>5783540
Sophocles
Alice Notley
Tocqueville
van den Vondel
Salih

Jorge Borges
Andrey Platonov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Yukio Mishima
Anton Chekov

Melville
Dickinson
Pynchon
DeLillo
McCarthy

Olav H. Hauge
Jacob Sande
Stephen King
Terry Pratchett
Ragnar Hovland

Rilke
Dante
Baudelaire
Sebald
Perec

Pynchon: 12
Nabokov: 13
Kafka: 15
Faulkner 4
Joyce 7
Borges 8

These are the top so far. I probably missed a couple

Shakespeare 7
Dostoevsky: 12
McCarthy 5
Dave Wallace 5
Melville 6
Tolstoy 8

All dese Kafkas. Is the Trial really that good?

>>5783440
>6/10
F-fuck you Horace

Kafka
Camus
Dostoevsky

>>5783764
The Trial and his short stories are almost universally recognized as great.

>>5783764
Yes

>>5783893
Which short stories for example?

Faulkner
Hugo
McCarthy
Camus
O'Connor/T.S. Eliot

>>5783907
A Hunger Artist.

>>5783315
>Nicanor Parra
Mah nigga. I thought he was unknown around here. Are you South American?

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China Miéville
Ernest Hemingway
Jorge Luis Borges
Vladimir Nabokov
Dylan Thomas

>>5783907
The Metamorphosis
In the Penal Colony
The Hunger Artist

George RR Martin
Joe Abercrombie
Stephen King
Andrew Ryan
Roger Zelazny

Franz Kafka
James Joyce
Albert Camus
Knut Hamsun
Ernest Hemingway