Favorite Authors

[EWolfe]

Books = nest

[G-spotter]

Gene Wolfe

RA Lafferty

John Steinbeck

Robert Anton Wilson

Charles Dickens

Tove Jansson

Charles Bukowski

A. and B. Strugatskii

Ursula leGuin

JL Borges

Haruki Murakami

Wu Ming/Luther Blissett

Raymond Chandler

Bruce Sterling

Heraclitus

Ed McBain

Roger Zelazny

 

no particular order should be implied in the list above.

[klar404]

Richard Brautigan Revenge of the Lawn

Italio Calvino Cosmicomics

Louis-Ferdinand Céline Journey to the end of the Night

Bruce Chatwin Patagonia

Knut Hamsun Hunger

Par Lagerkvist Barabbas

George Orwell Down and out in Paris and London

John Steinbeck East of Eden

 

special note goes out to the best of craigslist....

Edited May 22, 2006 by klar404

[billcoe]

If I don't say something soon all my favorite authors will already be noted.

[AlpineK]

I'm not good at lists but here's a couple nobody's brought up.

 

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

VS Naipaul

[billcoe]

I'm not good at lists but here's a couple nobody's brought up.

 

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

VS Naipaul

 

Zimzam has Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[tread_tramp]

Ed Abbbey

C S Lewis

J R R Tolkein

Gary Snyder

Annie Dillard

Graham Greene

Shunryu Suzuki

Joseph Conrad

Thomas Merton

Jack Kerouc

Martin Heidegger

Shusaku Endo

Kenneth Rexroth

[TREETOAD]

Patrick O'brien is a master and a commander

[EWolfe]

If I don't say something soon all my favorite authors will already be noted.

 

So..........

 

I'm not good at lists but here's a couple nobody's brought up.

 

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

VS Naipaul

 

 

Zimzam has Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 

 

The more mentions the better, actually..

[Off_White]

Here's a couple more, file them under "new american fabulists"

 

Tim Powers - Declare

James Blaylock - The Last Coin

Connie Willis - Lincoln's Dreams

 

And, to mention a token canadian, I have a weakness for Douglas Coupland.

[catbirdseat]

Gene Wolfe

RA Lafferty

John Steinbeck

Robert Anton Wilson

Charles Dickens

Tove Jansson

Charles Bukowski

A. and B. Strugatskii

Ursula leGuin

JL Borges

Haruki Murakami

Wu Ming/Luther Blissett

Raymond Chandler

Bruce Sterling

Heraclitus

Ed McBain

Roger Zelazny

 

no particular order should be implied in the list above.

Cool, you're into Science Fiction in a big way.

[dan_forester]

Henry Fielding

Raymond Chandler

and of course Jorge Luis Borges

[KaskadskyjKozak]

Dostoyevski

Melville

O. Henry

Hemingway

Conrad

[kix]

I used to read all that good literary stuff, especially the top notch stuff like Cnnrad, Melville, Mann, etc.. but my internet induced A.D.D. has gotten so bad I can barely finish a sentence anym

[RuMR]

Dostoyevski

Melville

O. Henry

Hemingway

Conrad

Mountainqueer Handbook

[KaskadskyjKozak]

Dostoyevski

Melville

O. Henry

Hemingway

Conrad

Mountainqueer Handbook

 

you're obsessed with homosexuality... that speaks volumes, Rudy. pun intended.

[DirtyHarry]

you're obsessed with homosexuality...

 

I am too. Hot lesbians are cool.

[RuMR]

[dan_forester]

I used to read all that good literary stuff, especially the top notch stuff like Cnnrad, Melville, Mann, etc.. but my internet induced A.D.D. has gotten so bad I can barely finish a sentence anym

 

I konw what you mea

 

LET'S RIDE BIKES!!!!

[Off_White]

I think I can explain it in one word KK: wrestler

[archenemy]

My favorite authors are your avatars--at least, I read this board enough to think this may be possible

[olyclimber]

I don't know how to read, only how to write.

[archenemy]

That makes you Mr. Write.

[RuMR]

I think I can explain it in one word KK: wrestler

don't make me dump you on yer head...

[cj001f]

Peter Beard

Isak Dinesen

Jaroslav Hasek

James Hilton (only Lost Horizon)

Mikhail Bulgakov