novelists, nonfiction, journalists, etc. But no screenwriters, they have their own forum.
My favorite authors include:
Stephen King Because he's cool. His books, most of the time, are entertaining yet also well written and often humorous. My favorite: Carrie
Fran Lebowtiz God, this woman is hilarious. And she needs to get going and write some more damn books! Regardless, Metropolitan Life is a classic, one I've read many times. Such an exquisite wordsmith.
Salinger No explanation required.
And now: it's your turn.
Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway is something else.
Cormac McCarthy: The Crossing is the one novel I'm dead set on making into a film, and Blood Meridian is a masterpiece of American fiction that on par with the best work by Faulkner.
Graham Greene: If you're ever feeling downtrodden, try reading The End Of The Affair.
Salinger comes next. I haven't read all of Toni Morrison's work, but those that I have (Beloved, Jazz and Sula) I love.
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath, man, The Grapes of Wrath.
Robert Coover: Pricksongs and Descants is just the craziest, most beautiful collection of stuff ever. When I first read this (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2004/6/3coover.html/) little story, my chest swelled up with awe.
Dave Eggers: I have an unhealthy obession with McSweeney's, so I obviously am in love with Dave.
Tom Robbins: Read Even Cowgirls Get The Blues and you will get high off his prose, literally.
T.C. Boyle: I have this 700 page collection of his short stories, divided into three sections: Love, Death, And Everything In Between. Yes.
Saul Bellow: I've only read Seize The Day, but it was a really great Salinger-esque romp, and I hear that Augie March is one of the best books ever.
Chris Ware: Okay, more of a comic artist, but Jimmy Corrigan was the first comic I read that made me believe in comics as a true art form. That book could not have worked as well any other way than how it was presented. A true artist. And a design freak.
Margaret Lawrence: A brilliant Canadian writer.
Ernest Hemmingway: His minimalism is stunning.
Quote from: GhostboyI haven't read all of Toni Morrison's work, but those that I have (Beloved, Jazz and Sula) I love.
How is
Jazz? I'm not going to buy it yet -- I have more unread books than I have ones that I've read. Is this sad?
Knut Hamsun, John Fante, Albert Camus, Henry Miller, Bukowksi, Doestoevsky, Celine, Kafka, Kesey, Orwell.
my choices are all boring, i know, but these are the only authors that seem to excite me lately.
Quote from: classical gasKnut Hamsun, John Fante, Albert Camus, Henry Miller, Bukowksi, Doestoevsky, Celine, Kafka, Kesey, Orwell.
my choices are all boring
They are? :?
well, not to me
Quote from: HedwigHow is Jazz? I'm not going to buy it yet -- I have more unread books than I have ones that I've read. Is this sad?
Not sad at all -- I've only recently come out on top of the books I own, and when it comes to the list of stuff I WANT to read...well, that's just sorta frightening.
Anyway,
Jazz is great...like
Beloved, but even more experimental in its style. In most respects, it's my favorite of her work, although it ultimately isn't as powerful as
Beloved.Quote from: classical gasKnut Hamsun, John Fante, Albert Camus, Henry Miller, Bukowksi, Doestoevsky, Celine, Kafka, Kesey, Orwell.
Those are awesome (although I don't know Hamsun, Fante, or Celine) picks.
ageyev, apollinaire, aragon, arsan, artaud, azuela, ballard, barthes, bataille, baudelaire, beaulu, beauvoir, bertrand, borges, buida, calvino, celine, char, cocteau, colonna, cortazar, de chirico, de nerval, de sade, dostoevsky, eluard, fuentes, genet, gide, giono, hesse, houllebecq, hrabal, kafka, kis, lautreamont, mahdi, miller, mirbeau, muller, murakami, nin, pavic, paz, quiroga, rabelais, reage, rilke, rimbaud, rousseau, roussel, rulfo, sa-carneiro, sacher-masoch, sartre, schulz, ugresic, walser
you lost me at ageyev.
Quote from: GhostboyQuote from: classical gasKnut Hamsun, John Fante, Albert Camus, Henry Miller, Bukowksi, Doestoevsky, Celine, Kafka, Kesey, Orwell.
Those are awesome (although I don't know Hamsun, Fante, or Celine) picks.
well, you may not like these, but i suggest for fante, 'ask the dust'; for hamsun, 'hunger'; and for celine, 'journey to the end of the night'. the celine novel i can see as being boring to some, maybe; but i think what he wrote about was the problems of simply existing and living and so on, hence the lack of plot. he wrote some beautiful passages though that still stick with me. and fante, well, he was just an emotional guy who wrote more beautifully than almost anyone. you can go to amazon.com and read like the first five pages or so of each. tell me what you think if you can actually get a hold of these...
I can borrow Ask The Dust from a friend. I've actually read Bukowski's introduction to it.
playing it safe...
nabokov, gk chesteron, garcia marquez, and hu shih.
modern people--
dave roderick, taiyo matsumoto (he does french/ japanese mangas).
Steinbeck because East of Eden is the great american masterpiece we all search for
bukowski, kerouac, ginsberg fill my beat needs
Quote from: classical gasKnut Hamsun, John Fante, Albert Camus, Henry Miller, Bukowksi, Doestoevsky, Celine, Kafka, Kesey, Orwell.
my choices are all boring, i know, but these are the only authors that seem to excite me lately.
Why do you call your choice boring ? You like them just because they sound good or you think we're all a bunch of retards ?
When I find an author I like, I tend to get everything they've ever written and go through it all. So I'm not really speaking from a point of view of wide comparison but when I read someone I like, I just know straight away that I dig their style.
Michael Chabon: I've got to be honest it was the movie of Wonder Boys that introduced me to him, so I looked up the book. Then, I think it was Ghostboy who said how great Kavalier and Klay was and from then on I just found everything of his and read it.
Hunter Thompson: ...okay so there's a pattern emerging here. Yes I saw the movie of Fear and Loathing first but have gone on to read The Rum Diary, Hell's Angels etc. Still working through volumes of letter and articles.
Salinger: Well. Yes. His collection of short stories will, every now and then pop into my mind, but just fragments so I cant figure where they came from....and then I'll remember. I like that.
Stephen King: First novels I ever started reading were by him. Abundant in charity shops and car boot sales so I could get them very cheap with pocket money. The Tommy-Knockers being my favourite.
Quote from: GhostboyI can borrow Ask The Dust from a friend. I've actually read Bukowski's introduction to it.
Yes, Buk was a huge fan of Fante and said he related to his writing more than any other writer. In fact, on the disc HOSTAGE, Bukowski -- out of nowhere, but then again, he was an out of nowhere kind of guy -- goes into this big thing about how much he loves John Fante. He starts listing off the names of his books. "Ask the dust..." etc. It's almost moving.
And by the way, HOSTAGE is a great, great disc for any Bukowski reader.
Fante's son Dan writes, too, I believe.
I'm surprised I havent' seen Palahniuk up here yet.
Oh, he's one of my favorites by the way.
I also really enjoy Anthony Burgess (Clockwork Orange was good, but Wanting Seed was also really good)
"new" writers
Lydia Davis
Dan Chaon
"old" writers
Truman Capote
J.D. Salinger
Quote from: Pas RapportQuote from: classical gasKnut Hamsun, John Fante, Albert Camus, Henry Miller, Bukowksi, Doestoevsky, Celine, Kafka, Kesey, Orwell.
my choices are all boring, i know, but these are the only authors that seem to excite me lately.
Why do you call your choice boring ? You like them just because they sound good or you think we're all a bunch of retards ?
they just didn't seem that diverse; they are all descendants of dostoevsky, sort of. and i had no new writers.
Charles Bukowski and John Fante, Julio Cortazar, Georges Perec, Douglas Adams, Franz Kafka, Irvine Welsh, Godard as a writer, Andy Warhol as a writer and let's leave it at that, because i suck at reading.
For the record, I hate people that have read more than I have, like 03.
James Ellroy, Augusten Burroughs, William Burroughs, Stephen King, and Johnathon Lethem.
Quote from: 03fuentes
i may be going to a conference he will be giving this month.
who here has met published writers?
chuck palahniuk, nick hornby, irvine welsh, michael moore, al franken, harper lee, and cbrad
,,
:( yesterday i forgot that the conference with Fuentes was yesterday,
and i just got a chance to see him walk around my school.
on the second pic my friend's asking him for his signature
(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ccm.itesm.mx%2Fnoticias%2Fjaque0%2Farchivos%2F102604e.jpg&hash=17b84311eb97607528ddd5621a503e5dd157f5ab)
(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ccm.itesm.mx%2Fnoticias%2Fjaque0%2Farchivos%2F102604d.jpg&hash=aa47f1b79ec026790e824ca47e8b4aa6605ae0b0)