Favorite Writers
 

I'm interested in seeing who your favorite authors, poets, etc. are...

Lately I've really had this thing for T.S. Elliot, some of his works really inspire me. I have many different favorite authors, mostly all of the classics (need I list them?), but I still enjoy the fun books. Dean Koontz has some great books out there, and I just got finished reading Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse. If you haven't read it, I HIGHLY recommend it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky (just sarted reading The Devils), The Marquis De Sade, H.P. Lovecraft, Aleister Crowley...

Aleister Crowley is great...have you read anything by Israel Regardie or any other members of the GD?

Favourite writers
 

Thomas Mann
Heinrich von Kleist
Marquis de Sade
Harold Pinter
Edward Albee
ETA Hoffmann
James Joyce
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe

I like H. P. Lovecraft, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, and umm...I can't seem to think of anymore. Perhaps J. R. R. Tolkien too.

Oh yeah. George Orwell!

Jack London, Lewis Carroll, Ray Bradbury (though, From The Dust Returned really sucked), Shakespeare, and ah... that's about all I can think of right now.

Stephen King.

As for poets it would have to be Edgar Allan Poe.

Err.. damnit. I forgot A Bostonian. I can't quite beleive it.

Ernest Hemmingway sucks. He sucks big giant sweaty hairy cheesy salty balls. He sucks so much balls that if they had a ball sucking contest they would declare him the winner without even watching the other contestants. He writes worse than Flirting With Suicide. It's a fucking pathetic joke that english teachers hold him up as a great writer. He's just an over rated piece of shit that shouldn't even have his name remembered.

Oh right, favorite. That's my least favorite.

Dostoevski, poe, kafka, leonidov(does anyone know this author?), calvino, marquez, the brothers strugatskie(are there any english traslations, does anyone know?), ... and alot of others that I can't recall.

Ivan Leonidov, the architect?

Myself........as a writer.

uhhhhh...no. Unless that guy was an architect as well as an author...which I doubt he was. The Leonidov I was talking about is a Russian author who wrote several things that are kind of in Kafka's style. They are really good, but I don't know if any have been translated into other languages.

Can't say that I have ... I probably will sooner or later though.

Which books of his have you read?

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley
The Book of The Law
The Book of Lies
Moonchild
Diary of a Drug Fiend
Magick

The brothers Grimm, anyone?

You read all of 'Magick'? Like pounded through all 900 pages of it...?

Yes. And 'Confessions', that's a good 900 pages too. They left my head spinning though.

hahahahahahahahahaha.....

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Mervyn Peake; Poppy Brite; Kurt Vonnegut; Philip Pullman

Yeats, Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Lovecraft, Asimov..god so many. Favorite poet is Barbauld though.

I suspect this makes me a loser but I almost always enjoy a good Stephen King book. I started reading him in the fourth grade and have off and on ever since. The last book he worked on that I read was The Talisman, a collaboration with Peter Straub. I like Straub too, read The Throat.

Kurt Vonnegut just fucking owns every other author who ever lived.

I also like Poe, especially his satire and other writing that isn't as well known because it isn't horror.

And Chuck Palahniuk.

I know a lot of people who enjoy King. I never really got that into his books, personally, but they make great films.

I dont have to waste much time suspecting..

I know imma loser..But I am the Loser who got to meet Mr Creepy AND Hairy, Stephen King, and get all of my hardcovers signed by him..

:D

I havent been into him for years and years, except for one recent book;

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But it was cool to meet him..

Creepy, hairy and he sweats alot..

Oh yeah..

that book /\ kicked all kinds of ass. i just re-read it.

Charlotte Bronte
Ayn Rand
Jacqueline Carey
Laurell K. Hamilton
and of course...
Poe
Ann Rice

Not to offend anyone (like when have I ever cared about that, ha!) but am I the only motherfucker here who thinks King, Rice and Poe are to good literature as fat people are to spandex?

My favorite writer is definitely Erich Maria Remarque.

I just love those depressing war time novels. And I never get bored.

I read Bag of Bones several years ago, possibly in junior high. I liked it...and I learned that you can seriously fuck shit up with lye ; D

Like I mentioned, it's terribly cliche to be Goth and read Poe/Rice...spooky kid almost...and of course we all know Poe is morbidly wonderful...I think Rice's writing is very descriptive and sensual. One thing, though, I'd like to see a little bit more hetero-sensual scenes, though I have no gay objections...

I don't really like Anne Rice. It just gets old and it's a bit cheesy for my taste. I did read The Tale of the Body Thief a month or two ago for kicks but I didn't think it was great literature or anything. The only other Rice book I've read is Lasher, which I read and wrote a report on in seventh grade. That was a hoot. A reincarnated supernatural being committing incest with its mother, woo hoo!

On work by Poe that doesn't fit the spooky kid/goth stereotype: "How to Write a Blackwood Article" and "A Blackwood Article" satirize the sensationalist writing of the time. A woman gives an account of being beheaded by the hands of a clock tower. If you find one I reccomend picking up a cheap complete works of Poe. I got one for under ten dollars on clearance at Borders.

Oh yeah, "Never Bet the Devil Your Head" was a story I also particularly liked. You could probably find a lot of Poe at the Project Gutenberg site, since it's no longer copyrighted.

I'm a bit shocked really that Neil Gaiman, Dave Duncan, Terry Pratchett, William Gibson, and... oh! There's so many... great fantasy or cyberpunk authors who haven't yet been mentioned. Or maybe they were, before the site went down, in which case I'm sorry for being a prat.

But they're great favourites of mine, along with Dickens, Douglas Adams, and a plethora more...

I like the word plethora. I use a plethora of plethoras.

But if anyone here has never encountered Neil Gaiman, I think you'd really enjoy Coraline or Neverwhere or American Gods. And William Gibson? His early stuff is a bit hard to get through at first, but Pattern Recognition blew me away. Great stuff.

Here's 10.

Kurt Vonnegut
Jens Bjørneboe
Haruki Murakami
William Gibson
Bret Easton Ellis
Neil Gaiman
Edgar Allan Poe
George R. R. Martin (Song of Ice and Fire - best fantasy series ever)
Virginia Woolf
J. K. Rowling (yeah, so I'm a H. P. fan...)

Well I do like Gibson don't get me wrong, he's just not one of my favorites.

Well, I didn't mean to imply that nobody liked any of them, but merely that of all the subcultures likely to house people who would cite such authors as their favourites, it was a bit odd that nobody had as of yet. On a random note, what's your favourite Gibson?

I think mine is Count Zero. Pattern Recognition was also very enjoyable.

I do like Pratchett's books, but I just don't define him as my favorite writer.

Why does the name Haruki Murakami seem so familiar? I don't think I've actually read anything by that author but I'm 97% sure I've heard the name before.

Holy crap, I just noticed that...you like reading her or you actually like what she has to say? Personally I hope that if there is a hell, she's stewing in shit there for all eternity.

POETS: EDGAR ALLAN POE.. no doubt. N EMILY DICKINSON IS OK.

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But if anyone here has never encountered Neil Gaiman, I think you'd really enjoy Coraline or Neverwhere or American Gods.

Once I'd got through the first 50 pages or so of American Gods, which was, to me, irritatingly american-aeroplane-book style, I really enjoyed it. Whether he got more into the flow or I did I'm not sure. I love Neil Gaiman for writing Good Omens with TP and for doing Sandman, which I adore with all my heart... so was disappointed with Coraline. For all its good reviews, I really didn't rate it. I know it's meant for children but still, I thought it lacked soul, or punch maybe.

OOh, incidentally, just to add if anyone is interested and hadn't heard, Neil Gaiman's doing a talk thing about his new book etc on 8 November in London. So excited :)

favorite writers
 

If I am reading horror, then my favorite writers are Algernon Blackwood (not too many people know this great writer), H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Poe....
The classics!

Outside of horror...George Orwell...Animal Farm, 1984...

Philosophy? ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER! He wrote the greatest book ever written by man: THE WORLD AS WILL AN IDEA.

Edgar Allen Poe

Bronte sisters, Jane Austin, Shakespeare.

Stephen King, Douglas Niles, Richard A. Knaak, Solinquair, Peter Straub....

By the way, Empty Purple Stars, what year did yu meet Stephen King?

Dante Alighieri, author of The Inferno
Poe (of course)
Raven (check out Ravensrants.com)
The Brothers Grimm