blackzombie: Who Is Your Favourite Author?

blackzombie 07.30.12	i hope ya'll niggas know how 2 reed
Trebor. 07.30.12	kung pao duh
Calc 07.30.12	terry pratchett
Calc 07.30.12	and kung pao was pretty popular a lot of people will know that quote lol
Trebor. 07.30.12	I haven't read a novel since I graduated high school honestly
deepintheorchard 07.30.12	J.K. Rollings author of the Hogwarts series of books that I can read in chapters or page by page depending on the particular different moods I might be in on a particular day
eternium 07.30.12	Orwell is neato.
blackzombie 07.30.12	well fuck me, maybe if you guys didn't tell everyone that is where the quote was from then i won't have to endure their shitty recs.
Trebor. 07.30.12	You aren't worthy of my recs anyway
blackzombie 07.30.12	yeah i kinda saw that coming trebor. you can't even spell "recommend" properly, you have to make it a short form
Trebor. 07.30.12	You called it recs at the top, your argument is invalid
deepintheorchard 07.30.12	Read a novel trebor. Sometimes they are pretty good.
blackzombie 07.30.12	i agree with deepintheorchard. if i were you i'd start with The Cat In The Hat, it's got such a thrilling story line that might even rival the works of Shakespeare
combustion07 07.30.12	Chuck Palahniuk
SeaAnemone 07.30.12	oh man Michael Crichton was my favorite in high school good choice
Trebor. 07.30.12	Bro I've read the complete works of Shakespeare, don't get all condescending with me
deepintheorchard 07.30.12	Then you can move on to chapter books like Captain Underpants and The Grapes of Wrath.
mindleviticus 07.30.12	Stephen King [2]
ShadowRemains 07.30.12	lovecraft, tolkien
blackzombie 07.30.12	bro i can bench 180lbs you wanna go? and deepintheorchard i actually found Captain Underpants to be a difficult read, it has too many sub-plots and twists for my simple mind.
ShadowRemains 07.30.12	TRA-LA-LA-LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa
Maniac! 07.30.12	Bertrand Russell
Apollo 07.30.12	Either Terry Goodkind or David Eddings
wabbit 07.30.12	hemingway. well I guess Tolkien but he is actually a shit writer. Modern stuff would probably be Richard Morgan. He writes dark fantasy/ sci-fi but I really like his writing style and his plots. His main character is always the same but it's a good main character.
Relinquished 07.30.12	ralph waldo emerson and jack london
blackzombie 07.30.12	bro i lift midgets on my shoulders who are also lifting 180lbs, that's like 2000 lbs or something. how can you even doubt that i lift?
Calc 07.30.12	whoo!!! someone said jack london!!
BradMan 07.30.12	Hemmingway and Goethe.
blastOFFitsPARTYtime 07.30.12	Can't choose a fave between Orwell, Frank McCourt and Graham Greene.
blackzombie 07.30.12	also, what are your favourite genres? i love me a good thriller especially when they involve the subject of genetics or sci-fi themes
ShadowRemains 07.30.12	"well I guess Tolkien but he is actually a shit writer." from the storytelling perspective, he's great also emerson
SgtPepper 07.30.12	Aldous Huxley, William S. Burroughs, Tom Wolfe, Ken Kesey, Kurt Vonnegut, R.L. Stine (Childhood favourite).
Apollo 07.30.12	Fantasy all the way. Robert Jordan, Goodkind, R.A Salvatore etc
deepintheorchard 07.30.12	Look how intelligent sputnik is. Beautiful.
wabbit 07.30.12	have you heard the lord of the rings or the hobbit. He, almost always, opens the chapter with a description of what will happen during the chapter. And the books are just divided "sam & frodo part" "aragorn & gimili & legodumb part" with no flipping back and forth to build tension. He's an awful storyteller he just happened to write the best story ever so it doesn't matter how you tell it.
paxman 07.30.12	Easy. Nabokov. By a mile.
Calc 07.30.12	there's one person you people aren't mentioning and its weird
blackzombie 07.30.12	i agree with Calc, why is no one talking about Robert Munch?
DrMaximus 07.30.12	gotta go with Stephen King
omnipanzer 07.30.12	Based on sheer volume of books I've read it's a toss up between Piers Anthony and Stephen King.
oWhoadYo 07.30.12	H.P Lovecraft. Without a doubt.
ohfoxxxycole 07.30.12	i like bukowski i can relate to a lot of what he has to say and hes funny and isaac brock likes him
Weesnaw 07.30.12	Either Ralph Ellison or Alexandre Dumas, but i don't read as much as i should
Spare 07.30.12	david foster wallace
SeaAnemone 07.30.12	favorites: Leo Tolstoy Herman Melville Michael Crichton George Orwell (I go back and forth on this guy) Kurt Vonnegut Franz Kafka Albert Camus Mark Danielewski (though I haven't read much of his) Cormac McCarthy (though I haven't read much of his) David Foster Wallace (though I haven't read much of his)
EyesWideShut 07.30.12	Bukowski.. hes the type of sleaze i wouldnt mind chillin with.
patroneyes 07.30.12	dostoevsky that nigga
RooseveltsGhost 07.30.12	my nigga dostoevsky
deepintheorchard 07.30.12	My mom got me into Dostoevsky.
combustion07 07.30.12	Chuck Palahniuk
insomniac15 07.30.12	Clive Barker
808muzik 07.30.12	Chuck Palahniuk
Acrosstheshield13 07.30.12	Richard Matheson is my number one. followed closely by alot..
YankeeDudel 07.30.12	I dont read. I just watch Youtube videos for my knowledge and enlightenment. Get with the times and shit.
Piglet 07.30.12	Hunter S. Thompson, Douglas Adams or Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rowan5215 07.30.12	Douglas Adams, fuck yeah. Also Darren Shan, Neil Gaiman, John Marsden and Arthur Conan Doyle.
BlueW 07.30.12	douglas adams 3rd Haruki murakami Wally lamb I dunno
auberginedreams 07.30.12	chuck palahniuk.
bach 07.30.12	J. R. R. Tolkien is my absolute favorite.
Butkuiss 07.30.12	Margaret Atwood. Also, Camus can do, but Sartre is smartre.
deathofasalesman 07.30.12	Vonnegut Kafka Thompson
TheFonz123 07.30.12	truman capote maryline robinson shakespeare
ApplicationToHeaven 07.30.12	zola
baldymort 07.30.12	If you dig Michael Chricton you should check out Matthew Reilly, in particular the Scarecrow series.
Rikardur 07.30.12	Lovecraft.
Maniac! 07.30.12	Dostoevsky
Emyay 07.30.12	read anything you can get your hands on from David Foster Wallace. start with Infinite Jest
babyhitch 07.30.12	how the fuck is everybody saying they love science fiction and no one's favorite author is philip k dick? i love science fiction, horror, and fantasy. stephen king used to be my favorite. now it's philip k dick. read ubik and the man in the high castle. also total recall, blade runner, minority report, and a scanner darkly are movies based on his books so if you like those movies look up the book they're based on
paxman 07.30.12	(A hearty "fuck you" to anyone who lists Chuck Palahniuk, David Foster Wallace, and/or Hunter S. Thompson.)
illmitch 07.30.12	my favorite author is mynameischan
Voivod 07.30.12	Dennis Johnson. That "Tree Of Smoke" book was absolutely awesome.
paxman 07.30.12	My favorite modern writers would have to be Neal Stephenson and Dan Simmons. Both are extremely talented and prolific.
jrm96 07.30.12	stephen king writes the best horror and thriller novels
DocSportello 07.30.12	David Foster Wallace and Vladdy Nabokov take my cake
Maniac! 07.30.12	Sonic, don't pretend you know how to read.
MisterSteel 07.30.12	If I had to pick only one, I'd probably go with Robert Heinlein.
ReturnOfTheDnor 07.30.12	George Orwell George R. R. Martin Dean Koontz Stephen King Kurt Vonnegut Orson Wells Thomas Harris Ray Bradbury
ReturnOfTheDnor 07.30.12	JRR Tolkien too
Calc 07.30.12	i feel special im the only one with my favorite, im so much more elite then all yous guysis
ReturnOfTheDnor 07.30.12	I forgot Peter Benchley
Maniac! 07.30.12	"maniac your dumb spic ass googled "smart athers" and fyodor was the first dude who came up, go chop more wood pussy" Hey, you missed where I said Bertrand Russell, first. By the way, have you even read anything by Dostoevsky? Have you even heard of Bertrand Russell?
omnipanzer 07.30.12	"maniac your dumb spic ass googled..." ?why is he Hispanic again?
omnipanzer 07.30.12	I'm just confused and curious. Nothing more.
Maniac! 07.30.12	"I'm just confused and curious. Nothing more." Bi-curious? "and yes i have heard of bertrand russell but i'm too busy reading good shit instead of googling authors to impress sputnikers" Oh, my apologies. What are your thoughts on Russell's work on the History of Western Philosophy?
Rail 07.30.12	Either J.M. Coetzee or David Mitchell, probably.
omnipanzer 07.30.12	Kimmfused and Bi-curious
Maniac! 07.30.12	"Kimmfused and Bi-curious" If only Kimm was both
omnipanzer 07.30.12	.... [comment removed]
qwe3 07.30.12	next was so bad uh i think my fav is probably... fuck thats a hard one. i really like fitzgerald and wilde atm but idk bout favourites
ZedO 07.30.12	Leo Tolstoy John Steinbeck Pramoedya Ananta Toer ... and many others!
babyhitch 07.30.12	"i feel special im the only one with my favorite, im so much more elite then all yous guysis" wrong. sea anemone said michael crichton too. fool
qwe3 07.30.12	oh and vonnegut man love me some vonnegut
TheFonz123 07.30.12	fitzgerald is amazing, I love how lyrical his writing is. no one agrees with me on this , but my favorite book by him was "tender is the night", not "the great gatsby"
TheFonz123 07.30.12	I can't believe I'm the only one who said truman capote.
qwe3 07.30.12	"(A hearty "fuck you" to anyone who lists Chuck Palahniuk, David Foster Wallace, and/or Hunter S. Thompson.)" dont taint wallaces good name by grouping him with a hack like palahniuk plz
qwe3 07.30.12	"never read dostcunt but i own crime and punishment, and yes i have heard of bertrand russell but i'm too busy reading good shit instead of googling authors to impress sputnikers...if learning judo didnt impress us why would a mexican reading a book?" lmfao sonic i love you
drewcordova 07.30.12	James Joyce - Best english language writer ever.
ApplicationToHeaven 07.30.12	you all need more zola in your life
qwe3 07.30.12	jk rowling shits on james joyce
drewcordova 07.30.12	hahaha
TheFonz123 07.30.12	have any of you guys read "gilead" by maryline Robinson? It's absolutely gorgeous. Reading that book made me have more respect for religion and appreciate the beauties that it can cause. It really did change my view of faith, i think EVERYONE should read it religious or not
Rail 07.30.12	I love Marilynne Robinson. Home is really good too. It has a more conventional narrative than Gilead, but is still written in that earthy tone. It explores the difficulties of shame in a religious household.
scissorlocked 07.30.12	virginia woolf, faulkner, stendhal,
Atari 07.30.12	James Patterson is pretty good. @Qwe3, what's wrong with Chuck Palahniuk?
TheFonz123 07.30.12	I love both of her books but I prefer Gilead becuase that has a less cynical approach to reality and people which I think she nails and executes better. Then again, she's such an amazing writer that if she wrote a 300 page book about heating up a hot pocket in the microwave it would still be amazing becuase she makes everything seem beautiful and interesting, I could read her forever also virginia woolf fuck yeah
JackSparrow 07.30.12	Lot of good on here, lot yet to be listed. I cant believe F. Scott Fitzgerald hasnt been mentioned more, Tender is the Night is genius. Henry James needs a mention with Wings of the Dove. Hunter S. Thompson is the man so go fuck yourself. Jack Kerouac is one of my favorites, On the Road and Desolation Angels. And Poe is a master
scissorlocked 07.30.12	"What are your thoughts on Russell's work on the History of Western Philosophy?" it's by far the most enjoyable history of western philosophy still, Russel coudn't get most of the metaphysical stuff but It's fun to read his attacks on many great philosophers
TheFonz123 07.30.12	I think that "housekeeping" has a much darker atmosphere and she's better at writing about faith and peacefullness. "gilead" is one fo my favorite books
TheFonz123 07.30.12	I can't believe I was the only one to mention shakespeare, capote, and dickens wtf
scissorlocked 07.30.12	i'll be digging shakespeare during the following year but if the dramatists come in then I'll choose Aeschylus and Sophocles
Calc 07.30.12	Dr. Suess and Richard Scary and Maurice Sendak
Maniac! 07.30.12	"it's by far the most enjoyable history of western philosophy still, Russel coudn't get most of the metaphysical stuff but It's fun to read his attacks on many great philosophers " Can we be friends?
scissorlocked 07.30.12	your thoughts too huh? ok bud, we're friends by now!
Maniac! 07.30.12	I don't really know too much about his writings on metaphysics, to be honest, but I agree with your other two statements.
HypedMerchant 07.30.12	Brandon Sanderson and Jonathan Stroud
KeithStone582 07.30.12	J.D. Salinger Victor Hugo Nancy Farmer Kurt Vonnegut
klap 07.30.12	stephen king, hunter thompson, tom wilde
Turtlestlker 07.30.12	Stephen King Tolkien Philip Pullman Lovecraft
Gyromania 07.30.12	Chuck Palahniuk Tolkien Comte de Lautréamont Honestly... too many to list
Gyromania 07.30.12	Susan Kay as well
Tyrael 07.30.12	Harry Mulish suck it hipsters
BerrySnaps 07.30.12	Robert Heinlein[2] Ursula K. Le Guin Sam Delany Octavia Butler
TheFonz123 07.30.12	"It's fun to read his attacks on many great philosophers" YES, I love that. Have you read "the abolition of man" by C.s. Lewis? he does that a lot in that essay
WeepingBanana 07.30.12	Vonnegut without a doubt
scissorlocked 07.30.12	wow, Gyro's reading Lautreamont? Maldoror is the most metal writing ever!
macman76 07.30.12	DFW, Vonnegut, Alan Moore (does that count?), Stephenson
VisionsFromTheDarkSide 07.30.12	Reading a crime series by Hakan Nesser. Very good stuff.
alexp9000 07.31.12	Paulo Coelho
ShadowRemains 07.31.12	it is fucking annoying to read james joyce's material also sonic dropping bombs in this thread haha
Foaming 07.31.12	William Burroughs
HighandDriving 08.02.12	BEE
Satellite 08.02.12	chuck klosterman jack kerouac john steinbeck tucker max charles bukowski bill bryson
North0House2 08.02.12	Good ol' Fyodor Dostoevsky. He's not necessarily an author of any novels, but Charles Bukowski is amazing.
Satellite 08.02.12	ham on rye is a novel dude. he had a few others as well.
Trebor. 08.02.12	That's my favorite lunch
WeepingBanana 08.02.12	i gotta read me some Bukowski. Factotum has been on my list for years now
WeepingBanana 08.02.12	although Bukowski was a major dick
HighandDriving 08.02.12	Read BEE instead.
HighandDriving 08.02.12	Just BEE tweets You?
HighandDriving 08.02.12	IDK BRO IDK He seem to have come full circle with LTZ and IB That film he wrote is being directed as we speak. Hopefully it's dec.
ChuckyTruant 08.06.12	hahahha sweet dude, my favorite author is Michael Crichton as well. m/m/m/m/
hydora1171 08.12.12	when intellectual pretensions meet guilt/the difficulties of growing up/ more guilt or empire-bashing - books by E M Forster (Y)