ceepee Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 Timothy Leary....Tom Wolfe...Hunter S Thompson....William S Burroughs...Ken Kessey....Jack Keourac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faith11878 Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 Steven King Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tottallyoff Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 Originally posted by mist shit, wish I still had the motivation to read dostoyevsky in the original. But I'ma lazy shit, so now I'm down to a spead of 1 russian page/5-7 minutes. pathetic. Yeah, even for a naitive speaker, Dostoyevski or Tolstoi are really slow moving and heavy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tribal Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 dumas has got to be my fav, Les Miz is the best book ive ever read. also JJ Rousseau, not really a writer but talented anyway. Steinbeck is up there as well. for that action reading, Crighton is pretty good. Sphere, JPark, Nova Strain, good books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sprincess218 Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 :book: Patricia Cornwell :book: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 Phillip K. DickIrvine WelshJames Ellroy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chula22 Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 During my lat eteenage years i think i read every V.C. Andrews book around.Now my favorite author is DEAN KOONTZ. But JAMES PATTERSON and SYDNEY SHELDON are also good.The only stephen king book i was actually able to read and get through was desperation(WHAT A GOOD BOOK!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexandra Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 My favorite is F. Scott Fitzgerald... "The Great Gatsby" is my bible! Its even more relevant today then when he originally wrote it...Read it again, and if you've never read it, treat yourself!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mysterynyc Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 HemingwayGrishamClancyMiller Fitzgerald Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassa Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 I read lots of history, political, and economical books; Richard Bach, Kahlil Gibran, Gustavo Sainz, Anne Rice, I used to love Stephen King, I think the Talisman is one of his best books...Dostoyesvsky of course...Crime and Punishment was a good book...Pushkin's poems...Lermontov...Tolstoy...medieval Japanese literature...Arabic love poetry...to Ancient Chinese history...plus of course...Shakespeare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orchid21 Posted February 16 Report Share Posted February 16 Originally posted by marcid21 Dean Koontz & Anne Rice. ExuperyCoelhoRemarqueHemingwayKunderaHuxleyCamusK. Gibran and on and on and on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neptune1 Posted February 16 Report Share Posted February 16 Hemmingway is one of my favorites. His economical use of words is amazing... "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is a great read.Kafka used to be my favorite, but reading his works makes YOU experience the torture that his characters undergo in the course of the work (intentionally on his part, I feel)... To me, Camus drives the point home in a much more pleasant manner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudeboyyouth Posted February 16 Report Share Posted February 16 My favorite is Edmund Spenser. The Faerie Queen is the greatest book I've ever read. Others would have to be:Aphra BehnSir Thomas MoreChristopher MarloweWilliam BaldwinThomas MiddletonWilliam RowleyJohn MiltonJohn FordBen JohnsonThomas DekkerJames JoyceAlgernon Charles Swinburne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehacker Posted February 16 Report Share Posted February 16 Originally posted by lavendermenace nice. whats your favorite? I've only read neuromancer and burning chrome. ditto here. prefer burning chrome.but it boggles the mind how many themes/ideas surrounding cyber technology have been ripped right off of neuromancer.started 'snow crash' by neal stephenson.should pick it back up sometime...have meant to read kafka's 'the trial'(based on my love of metamorphosis)which ironically arrived on my doorstep the dayi was fired from my last job (in november '00).of course, hitchhiker's guide."now there's a guy who really knows where his towel is!"douglas adams, may you forever rest in peace... thanks for all the fish.the great gatsby. i sometimes feel that i am nick, the ever-observant, but thoroughly uninvolved. (not all the time; there are times i feel all powerful. muhahahah!)matt groening's the huge book of hell.such art. such familiarity with human nature,expressed... through a bunny??vonnegut.player piano, and sirens of titan.demian by herman hesse.crichton's jurrassic park.no, NOT spielberg's jurrassic park.CRICHTON's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReginaP Posted February 16 Report Share Posted February 16 Trevor Williams, Jhumpa Lahiri, Shakespeare, Thorton Wilder, Steinbeck, Bronte, Jane Austen....the list goes on and on, I was an English major Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehacker Posted February 16 Report Share Posted February 16 <-- graduated two electives short of an english minor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gothzane Posted February 16 Report Share Posted February 16 Frank and Brian Herbert for their works with Dune.Kevin j. Anderson...for his supprt with the prequels.A science fiction epic of such splendor....that it makes star wars look like the teletubbies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liteflyr Posted February 16 Report Share Posted February 16 hmm i don't think i'm that well read, but some authors i enjoy:zora neale hurston (their eyes were watching god)dostoevsky (surprisingly loved crime and punishment)c.s. lewis (all those chronicles of narnia books and screwtape letters)camus (l'estranger)frank peretti (this present darkness, piercing the darkness)and that guy who wrote song of solomonauthors i do NOT enjoy:bronteausteni'm sorry but i so did not enjoy reading pride and prejudice, sense and sensibility, jane eyre, blehphilosophers (do you call em authors?) i enjoy:plato and socrates aristotlenietzchemacchiavelli st. augustineaureliushm and that's all i can recall right now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tastyt Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 Originally posted by liteflyr and that guy who wrote song of solomonThat would be Toni Morrison- and she's a woman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghhhhhost Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 ive gotta say Dumas is my favorite author..i read Count of Monte Cristo like 50 times and this movie that they just put out is ballz..straight garbage. A close second has got to be Mellville...Moby Dick i couldn't put down ..Recently I've been reading Dostoevsky and Mann..two bugged out authors with even more bugged out characters..but nevertheless entertaining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghhhhhost Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 Liteflyr u enjoyed Plato?? sorry to disagree but the Republic , as highly praised as it is , was one of the most tedious books i read in my life...it seemed to me that Plato built this republic in order to show how his Philosopher-KIngs must rule..to me it seemed selfish and pointless.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sneakerpimp Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 As of right now: Arthur Miller - A View from the Bridge - Death of a SalesmanOthers: Fitzgerald Capote Hemmingway (gotta love those classic American writers) Old Stephen KingAnthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mssabina Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 vladamir nabokov writes with amazing style and prose, i love how his words just flow and how he manages never to miss the slightest detail. i got an annotated copy of Lolita that explains all the allusions and metaphors but i haven't had a chance to read it yet... i like j.d. salinger because he's a little off color. also, capote, shakespeare, wilde and a bunch of contemporary authors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glowgrlnyc Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 Aldous HuxleyShakespeare Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liteflyr Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 Originally posted by ghhhhhost Liteflyr u enjoyed Plato?? sorry to disagree but the Republic , as highly praised as it is , was one of the most tedious books i read in my life...it seemed to me that Plato built this republic in order to show how his Philosopher-KIngs must rule..to me it seemed selfish and pointless.. hm well i never said i liked the republic specifically, but since you brought it up:you make a good point and i thought it was tedious reading it too the first time but that's only because i had to read it for school. but now that i read it again it's actually quite interesting. and the philosopher king was only a small section of the entire republic. i liked the parts on allegory of the cave and virtues of the individual. but i liked reading euthyphro, crito and the apology more than the apology anyway.and tastyt - yep thanks! and sorry didn't mean to imply she was a man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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