>top 5 authors >age >other anons r8

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>me
>68
>fuck u

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>Dostoevsky
>Melville
>Homer
>Bulgakov
>Kafka

>21

>>9744863
alright. I wonder how long you'll have Dosto and Kafka

>Plato
>Shakespeare
>Joyce
>Tolstoy
>Montaigne

>>9744881
Why would you say that?

Most read authors on Goodreads

>PKD
>Borges
>Faulkner
>Gibson
>Pynchon

28

> Dostoyevsky
> Dickens
> Nabokov
> Mann
> Waugh


Probably gonna get slammed for Dickens, I don't care. Come at me.

> 21

>ballard
>kafka
>burroughs
>lovecraft
>moore

24

>>9744918
i bet we'd get along

>>9744922
only read a christmas carol but it was a moving story and convinced me to check out more dickens.

>>9744881
What's wrong with Dost and Kafka?

>>9744930
Favourite Ballard and Burroughs books? Only read Empire of the Sun and the Wild Boys respectively. I'd consider EotS in my top 20 overall books quite probably.

>>9744937
funnily enough i've read neither of those two, but i would consider atrocity exhibition and the ticket that exploded my favorites from ballard and burroughs respectively.

>>9744902
>>9744933
nothing is wrong with them bros--i'm just wondering if you'll eventually have another as your favorite. I used to have Dosto as one of mine.

>>9744959
Do they wear off... eventually lose their magic?

>>9744971
oh, definitely not. Well, not yet, anyway. I'm only 22. Read them forever man! That's what I'll be doing. It's just hard to imagine that if you keep reading the greats, or the goods, that one of those new ones won't come to be a replacing favorite. I don't want to get into objectivity or anything because I don't know nearly enough, but that's what I think.

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I'm 24.
The only fiction writings, prose even, that really gets my rocks of is Joyce, Gaddis, and Melville. I used to love anything by Pynchon but something inside of me died

>>9744990
Thanks for the insight man. Best luck in the future.

>>9744834
delillo
pynchon
salinger
the other two are hard to pick

26

>>9745005
Horrible

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>>9744834
(top 5 favorite NOT top 5 most notable)

Joyce
Steinbeck
Hesse
Dosto
Faulkner

21

Faulkner
Melville
McCarthy
Hemingway
Steinbeck

Céline, Joyce, Camus, Woolf, Tolstoy

>>9745005
>Salinger past the age of 22
just joshin' ya

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>>9745027

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>>9745027

>>9745043
haha nice beat me to it

>Joyce
>Nabakov
>Salinger
>Bolano
>Cervantes

>A day over 25

>this thread again

/lit/ sure does love attention

>>9744834
Haruki Murakami
Chuck Pahlaniuk
Bret Easton Ellis
Franz Kafka
Albert Camus

20

> Calvino
> DFW
> Nabokov (try reading something other than Lolita you fucking plebs)
> Marquez
> Shakespeare

> 21

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>>9745277

>>9745277
Absolute fucking pleb. Once you read a bit more literature you'll realise how trite Murakami really is. Kafka is the only decent author on that list.
Camus is a very evocative writer but his philosophical texts are much better than his actual literature

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in no order:
>Conrad
>Faulkner
>Pynchon
>Dumas
>Eliot

19

>>9744834
>26
>Woolf
>Faulkner
>Baldwin
>Gass
>Turgenev

>>9745279
>the most famous contemporary italian author of all time
>the most famous american author from the last 30 years
>the most famous contemporary russian author
>the most famous south american author, on oprah's book list
>the most famous writer of all time
who's the pleb again

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>>9745060
Happy b-day, anon!

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Hans Fallada
Richard Yates
David Foster Wallace
Marquez
Houellebecq

21

>>9745518
>22
>Don Delillo
>Don Delillo
>Don Delillo
>Don Delillo
>Don Delillo

Tolstoy
Dostoevsky
Solzhenitsyn
Chekhov
Turgenev

Pynchon
Plath
Joyce
Dostoevsky
Mishima

>20

>>9745060
Nice. It's good to see someone who enjoys Salinger. Was it Catcher that started it, or what?

>24

>Stephen King
>Joseph Conrad
>Charles Bukowski
>Samuel Beckett
>Moliére

>>9744863
>Bulgakov
I read The Master and Margarita when I was 17 and I was so lost. Maybe I'll give it another go this summer.

>>9745005
I had to read The Names for a class and it really bothered me. Felt like an indie movie.

>>9745836
Not that guy, but really? I just recently read it and while I enjoyed it greatly, it seemed very modern/fantastic, like outside of the weird ass Russian naming conventions I felt it was almost a high school novel.

Note I'm not trying to disparage it or you, just I'm fresh off it. I would recommend a second attempt.

>21

>Kierkegaard
>Gaddis
>Joyce
>John Williams
>Spinoza

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>Wolfe
>Borges
>Dostoyevsky
>PKD
>Tolkien

(Fiction only)

>>9745994
Forgot

>29

>>9745283
Your post is embarrassing desu.

Mishima Yukio
Friedrich Nietzsche
Franz Kafka
Fyodor Dostoyevski
Thomas Mann

23

Nabokov
Pynchon
Mishima
Bely
Dostoevsky

20

>>9744834
HP Lovecraft
Thomas Ligotti
Junji Ito
Ryu Murakami
Tom Clancy

29

>>9744881
If we have to do these taste threads then in the future can we at least blacklist all five of the options this guy chose? It's such a waste of time, it's as generic as saying you'd invite Jesus, Buddha, and Hitler to your ideal dinner party.

>>9746130
Many authors named are just as "bland". Stop trying so hard.

>>9746133
It's the combination of them, though. An interesting grouping of very different writers would be worth seeing, but throwing the five big ""canon"" geniuses out is worthless.

>>9746151
They are not the five big canon geniuses. If your education extended past 4chan, you'd know that Joyce is seen much more critically. Montaigne could be replaced with Pascal, Plato with Aristotle, Tolstoi with Dostoyevski and you could still argue the same thing. Would Homer, Dante, Goethe, Proust not be equally "bland"?

>>9746157
I really appreciate you taking time out of your professorial schedule to school me, but you should try a bit harder to understand the reply I made to you. The combination of Homer, Dante, Goethe, Proust is dull and pointless, but to intersperse them with lesser-known or more personalised choices would make it a list worth reading. Shakespeare, as a choice, is fine but to group him with Plato or Tolstoy is not worth mentioning, everyone has seen those names juxtaposed with one another before and so we gain nothing.

>>9746177
Glad you are eager to learn, you seem to have moved beyond your point that it's dull because the named writers were THE five big canon geniuses.

Let me school you a little bit more: This thread has asked people to post their top 5 authors. I think such a choice is per se personalised, so a more personalised choice is a bit silly no? Also you apparently didn't understand what top 5 authors means, and assumed, wrongly, that this was a recommendation thread for lesser-known authors. It's not.

Glad i could clear that up for you.

> Raymond Carver
> Franz Kafka
> Vladimir Nabokov
> John Williams
> Steven Millhauser

24

>>9746190
In my original post I said the five "options", not names so I haven't changed my position. Its the option to bring those five together, not the names themselves.

>didn't understand what top 5 authors means, and assumed, wrongly, that this was a recommendation thread

You do realise that 4chan is anonymous? I don't really care who any of these people's favourite writers are, I am, like most probably, looking to see interesting names being brought together, not just names that are mentioned constantly in the same breath as one another. That's what these threads are really about, aside from the silly taste tournament aspect.

>such a choice is per se personalised, so a more personalised choice is a bit silly

Not really, as giving such a combination suggests you haven't read past the big names. Its not a combination that's really personal to anyone, and so is just not really worth sharing in a thread.

>Glad i could clear that up for you

I know you're feeling a bit insecure about your own "Bloom-approved" taste, but using too much sarcasm makes you look too immature to be the professor I know you truly are.

>Nabokov
>Camus
>Lermontov
>Pushkin
>Aristophanes
19

>>9744834
Céline
Dostoevsky
Rimbaud
Baudrillard
Baudelaire

>>9744863
Pretty good

>>9746208
>aside from the silly taste tournament aspect.
in which you participate
>Not really, as giving such a combination suggests you haven't read past the big names.
See?

It's a silly suggestion, just in line with your generally silly generalizations. All of the writers i have written in my own list are very well known, yet i can say with assurance that i have ventured far beyond the big names that are generally discussed on /lit/. It's an old argument, but the big names are big names for a reason. It's unlikely you will find a philosopher with both the explosive power and lyrical quality of Nietzsche's writing and so on.

>I know you're feeling a bit insecure about your own "Bloom-approved" taste

I'm not american, i don't care or really know about Bloom. Your instinctual assumption of there being insecurity on my side, when you are relatively on edge for people not naming enough obscure authors, is a bit telling, i think.

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>>9746204
>Carver, Kafka, Nabokov

Nice. These 3 were very close to making it onto my own list >>9745994

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Nietzsche
Baudelaire
Goethe
Merimée
Sterne

>Vonnegut
>Poe
>Camus
>Faulkner
>Lovecraft

23

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After 60 posts, I will make the tentative observation that /lit/ is collectively quite fond of Dostoyevsky and Kafka.

This does somewhat make sense, this being 4chan

>>9746243

Yeah, Notes from the Underground is practically the 4channer's autobiography.

>>9746228
>in which you participate

I have absolutely no qualms about what literature people enjoy or engage with, but to share them is another thing. What is the point of offering up such a well-known list of names on a public thread? Keep it to yourself.

>the big names are big names for a reason

I enjoyed singing along with the words in this point you made, as I knew it so well. Again, enjoy whatever works you want but why share that list? We all know Plato and Shakespeare are worthwhile.

>you are relatively on edge for people not naming enough obscure authors

How am I on edge? I'm tired of seeing pointlessly familiar lists and combinations on these threads, as I'm sure a fair few other people are. Your final point can summed up as "I know you are but what am I", so I'm struggling see why you'd find it so "telling."

>>9746240

One of the few patricians ITT

>Kawabata
>Camus
>Hemingway
>Kafka
>Tolstoy

20

>>9746252
Exactly. I felt a strong connection to that when I read it, my first taste of "classic" Russian lit, when I was a teenager

>>9745574
Thanks
>>9745795
Yeah I read it when I was 17, which I assume is the best and worst time to read it, and loved it. Then I read the rest of his oeuvre a few years later and it blew me away. I just wish there was more published, because I don't plan on living to 2080 or whenever the rest of his work will be released.

>>9746253
>What is the point of offering up such a well-known list of names on a public thread? Keep it to yourself.
I have failed as a teacher....

Nothing to be gained in this. We simply differ in what we perceive to be the purpose of this thread and what our intentions are. You are looking for new authors, or atleast unique combinations. I'm interested to see what the people on /lit/ like and maybe even try to figure out what kind of person they are. I can do that with The Top Five Geniuses of the World, as well as with people who read Tolkien or Steinbeck. If you wish to avoid pointlessly familiar lists, then try to avoid these threads. There are many better ways to stumble upon interesting new authors, though for people who have ventured beyond the canon it shouldn't be an issue to seek new authors.

>>9746279
I'd be interested to see what you can gauge about a person who chooses The Top Five Geniuses, but let's just agree to disagree. Have a nice day.

>>9744834
>joyce
>dante
>melville
>homer
>machado de assis

21
Dosto
Beckett
Pynchon
Kafka
Lovecraft
21

Will probably get shit for that list.

19
Bruno Schulz
Dosto
Kafka
McCarthy
Knausgard

Marx
Engels
Lenin
Stalin
Mao

>>9746770
oh and im 19 btw hehe

Baudelaire
Beckett
Deleuze
Marx
Goethe

23

>>9744881
>>9745005
>>9745017
>>9745277
>>9745279
>>9745994
>>9746030
>>9746031
>>9746204
>>9746365
>>9746753
Bland/garbage
>>9746105
Clancy? What the fuck is wrong with you?
>>9745867
>>9746218
>>9746240
Nice
>>9746770
Bait but out of those only Stalin was a bad writer/thinker desu

>>9744834
Kafka
Hesse
Mann
Kleist
Dostoevsky

22

>Wallace
>Barth
>Faulkner
>Gaddis
>Pynchon
I realize I'm about to get bullied, but I'm not interested in knocking down a favorite to put someone I like less in there, just to impress you fags

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>>9744918
I'd drink all night with you
26
>Bolaño
>PKD
>Nabokov
>O'Brien
>Crane

>James Patterson
>E.L. James
>Stephanie Meyers
>Dan Brown
>Danielle Steele

29

>>9744922
Good list. Dickens is one of the greatest of novelists - why would you get hate for including him?

In no order
>Faulkner
>Fitzgerald
>Pushkin
>Pynchon
>Updike

21

>Borges
>Dostoevsky
>Joyce
>Cortázar
>Bukowski
25

In no particular order:

>McCarthy
>Steinbeck
>Boyle
>Hemingway
>King

26

>>9747344
We'd get along.

>Nabokov
>Pushkin
>Pynchon
>Poe
>Fitzgerald

>>9747410
зa дopoвьe тoвapищ

In no particular order...

>Crichton
>King
>Lovecraft
>Howard
>Tie - Doyle or Chandler

>31

You guys probably think I'm uncultured, but oh well. Doesn't hurt my feelings any.

>>9745649
>i
>suck
>fat
>fucking
>cock

>Joyce
>Melville
>Faulkner
>McCarthy
>Toss up between Dostoevsky and Nabokov

>22

In no particular order:

>Solzhenitsyn
>Iain Banks
>Steinbeck
>Richard Adams
>Tolkien

>26

>Joyce
>Pinecone
>Tolkien
>Lovecraft
>Orwell
19

>McCarthy
>Calvino
>Joyce
>Steinbeck
>Borges

24

>Borges
>Bolaño
>César Vallejo
>Kafka
>Dostoievsky
19

>>9746898

Look at you there now; sitting there. Ya big eejit

Hesse
Calvino
Burgess
Welsh
Huxley
>>9747804
hiya countryman

>Joyce
>Rushdie
>Nietzsche
>Melville (purely for Moby-Dick)
>Lydia Davis

>>9747802
why havent you read cesar aira or juan jose saer, you little bitch?

>>9747891
Geez man, i haven't got the time. There's many other author that i'd like to read and haven't.
Why should i read them? I heard Saer is great, but about Air, i don't know much

>>9747845
>Melville (purely for Moby-Dick)

read his short stories

Kazatzakis
Huxley
Kapusczinski
London
Vern

28

1. Homer
2. Philip Larkin
3. Vladimir Nabokov
4. T. S. Eliot
5. Ezra Pound

23.

>Kropotkin
Stirner
Bookchin
Marx
Engels

>18

>>9747994
Prince Kropotkin, pleb...

>>9746240
Damn. I forgot Baudelaire for some reason.

I feel like a lot of people here are pretending to have read Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Lovecraft and Joyce. No way I had read much this stuff when I was "19".

No order. Just writers I've been reading a lot of in the last couple of years;

1. Kenzaburo Oe
2. Aundrey Kurkov
3. Umberto Eco
4. Raymond Carver
5. Milan Kundera

I am 26.

>>9747344
I read "The Centaur" by Updike a few years ago but failed to really appreciate it. Care to recommend something else more accessible?

>>9748142
It is possible, but we are on 4chan.
Neverheless, I had read most of Dostoyewski till 24, Pushkin in 26?
Mountains of madness in 22? Dubliners at 22.
Its 4chan though. Newfags run on boring algorithms.

>>9748142
How much did you read when you were 19? I read 43 books from start to finish (not counting short stories and poems from big collections) last year and i've read around 50 since the start of this year. I'm 19, i don't play videogames or watch TV, and my colege degree isn't very demanding in time or effort. It's not very hard to read that many books, including the majority of Dostoievsky's ouvre, if you have free time and use it to read. It also helps to have an e-reader to get books for free.

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>>9746770
>Stalin
>Mao

>>9746777
Nice

>>9747994
>Bookchin
What should I read after TNR?

>>9748190
I generally read a book or two a week. Since I was 15ish. It really depends on the book though. War and Peace took a good 2 months to finish.

In no order whatsoever

Camus
Tillich
Homer
Kafka
Borges

how many fucking commies are there in this thread?? jesus

>>9746862
Fuck, I'm 25 by the way

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>>9745836
>Stephen King

>>9744834

> Dostoevsky
> McCarthy
> Eco
> Camus
> Orwell

23

22
Cormac McCarthy
John Dos Passos
Laurence Sterne
Rainer Maria Rilke
Fernando Pessoa

(5 isn't enough)
Melville
Thomas Browne
etc

>>9748142
not everyone is as ignorant as you are m8

for myself I had read enough of Dostoevsky when I was 18 for him to be my favorite (The Idiot, The Brothers Karamzov, Notes from Underground)

Lovecraft is a not difficult at all so I have no idea why you included him

Joyce does outreach 19 year olds but who knows

>>9747845
that opinion of melville is very silly and you should fix it as soon as possible

18

Wallace
Gaddis
Hesse
McCarthy
Pynchon

bullying is justified but worry not for I am ascending

Darger
Proust
Baum
Sebald
McElroy
Age: twenty-two

>>9744834
22

>Hesse
>Dostoevsky
>Kafka
>Mann
>Houellebecq

>Orwell
>Saint Exupery
>Pynchon
>Grant Morrison
>Chesterton
28

>>9744918
This guy fucks.

>>9749506
>darger
i don't believe you. darger the war of the little girls darger?

>>9749537
Darger the war of the little girls Darger.
Obviously I haven't read the manuscripts, but then, nobody has (except maybe Bonesteel, by this point), and I have read everything that's been written on or about him. I guess it's debatable if I can really call him my favorite, having never read the source texts unadulterated, but whatever; these are all subjective lists anyway.

>>9749564
i watched his docu, kind of happy he didn't get to adopt a child, to be honest. no one knows what would have happened. a strange man, to be sure.

>>9744834
28

Salinger
Tan
Dostoevsky
Wallace
Murakami

>>9749580
Can't say I'm a huge fan of the documentary, but it was definitely nice to see some of his collage-drawings brought to life. It's all to easy to portray Darger as a mentally retarded pedophile, and a real effort has to be made to fight first impressions (which Yu doesn't do quite well enough, unfortunately). Jim Elledge's book does this the best, in my opinion, but it can be overly sentimental at times.
Heretic though I may be to say this, I think it's for the best too that he never was able to adopt. I think he would've been happier had he been able, but I think he would've smothered it with all the love that was in him - naive and unsexual, but ignorant and unhealthy.

>Douliezk
>McCarthy
>Ramblesnort
>Beletebuble
>Faulkner

>22

24

>Steinbeck
>Hemingway
>Danielewski
>Tolstoy
>Patrick Rothfuss

25

>Pynchon
>Rimbaud
>Scubedoobe
>Snifflemunch
>Houellebecq

>>9749676
I've never heard of Houllebecq what did they write

>>9749679
gravity's jest

I'll list modern 20th century authors, otherwise a top 5 becomes impossible:

1. Thomas Mann
2. Siegfried Lenz
3. Heinrich Boell
4. Friedruch Torberg
5. Hermann Hesse

>31

>>9749699
since you know mann...
must I read death in venice before magic mountain? please advise

>>9749679
Whatever, Atomized, the Map and the Territory, Submission...
He's a pretty bitey French guy. Not the most poetic of writers, but he really doesn't give a fuck, and that transparent attitude is kind of refreshing.

>>9744834
why was the simpsons so fucking weird? haha we all know a kid like ralph :) ...

>>9744834

>Dostoyevsky
>Joyce
>Homer
>Tolstoy
>Shakespeare

>18

>21

>julius evola

>>9749533
>saint exupery

Flight over Aran is amazing!

>>9750074
Got memed/ten, sorry kid

>when you grow up and begin to develop actual knowledge and stop pretending to understand joyce & dosto at 18 and just post your actual favourites instead

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>20

>Conrad
>Hardy
>Wilde
>Zola
>Woolf

>>9749694
lol

>Melville, Conrad, Lovecraft, Cormac McCarthy and Gene Wolfe
>18

>22
Hans Herman Hoppe
Friedrich Hayek
Thomans Sowell
Murray Rothbart
Ayn Rand

Thomas Mann
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Émile Zola
Charles Dickens
21

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> Aldous Huxley
> George Orwell
> Fyodor Dostoevsky
> Mark Twain
> Homer
> 25

>>9748171
Rabbit, Run is all that I have read of him but it was enough to get me hooked on his style. I still think about it to this day.

>Implying I read books
>20

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>Joseph McElroy
>Gass
>Rilke
>Gombrowicz
> Proust

>18

ayn rand
camu
pynchon
joyce
Nelson mandelas autobiography

30

David duke
Nietzsche
Gerog Orwell
Love craft
You know who :=D

20

>>9744834
Novelists?

Tolstoy
Joyce
Kafka
Dosto
Zola

21

>>9753113
what a fucking random combination. including the age

Hafiz
Homer
John Donne
Borges
Wu Cheng'eng.

Veintiséis años

I post the following just to get your creative juices flowing and also because so many of /lit/izens' fine choices seem repetitive:


?
Bolaño
Calasso
Morrison
Foster Wallace
García Marquez
Pasternak
Rulfo
Celan
Sartre
Neruda
Mishima
Orwell
Borges
Hemingway
Lorca
Pessoa
Joyce
Carpentier
Kafka
Freud
Tagore
Yeats
Ibsen
Proust
Conrad
Baudelaire
Nietzsche
Hugo
Verne
Dostoyevsky
Martí
Dickinson
Tolstoy
Whitman
Pushkin
Melville
Goethe
Shelley
1001 Arabi
Xueqin
Swift
Sor Juana
Voltaire
Quevedo
Donne
Basho
Cervantes
Shakespeare
Popol Vuh
Camõens
Wu Cheng'eng
Fuzuli
San Juan de la Cruz
Chaucer
Hafiz
Bocacio
Petrarca
Dante
Rumi
Khayyam

>>9753419
That's a big list

>>9746261
>Kawabata
>Camus
>Hemingway
fucking terrible

>>9744851
Lol what the hell?

>>9751484
Read the rest of the Rabbit books asap. They only get better, imo

>>9749533
>>Grant Morrison
>>Chesterton

This is the most bizarre combo, though one I can somewhat understand.

Are there any non-"Supergods" books by Morrison you would recommend?

>>9744851
>that image
either agents are getting back to 1980 levels of creative, or there really is something in the water.

>>9744851
>"white pride" but married to some asian broad

you can tell he's beta from all the bodybuilding faggotry, but the asian wife just removes any doubt

>Kafka
>Dostojewski
>Dick

>22