What author's work do you most admire? - Page 2

EVOLghost · 12.21.2009, 11:52 PM

R L Stein. Who can write that many stupid books....seriously.

automatic bzooty · 12.23.2009, 11:11 PM

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R L Stein. Who can write that many stupid books....seriously.

whoever wrote the babysitters club. she can write that many stupid, stupid books. i bet she made megabucks on that shit though.

aw yeah, chronicling the banalities of being 13 and the ups and downs of babysitting for sub-sub-minumum wage. tales from the mean streets of suburban connecticut. over 10000000 96 page volumes. positively riveting.

Dr. Eugene Felikson · 12.24.2009, 11:22 AM

Goosebumps, and Fear Street novels were like razor-blade filled candy for my brain as a youngin'.

This thread makes me realize just how seldom I've been reading lately.

*sigh*

loubarret · 12.24.2009, 11:56 AM

Well the stand beat poet (influnced things) and Oscar Wilde but that's more plays

Keeping It Simple · 12.24.2009, 06:36 PM

American authors I most admire:

Stephen Donaldson
Gene Wolfe
John Scalzi
Joe Haldeman
H.P. Lovecraft
Robert E. Howard

Torn Curtain · 12.26.2009, 04:22 PM

Camus, Beckett, Blake, Ginsberg, TS Eliot

I sure forget other ones.

chicka · 12.26.2009, 06:52 PM

Dickens, Hemmingway, Puzo

jon boy · 12.26.2009, 07:06 PM

i like brett easton-ellis quite a lot too. he is always very descriptive and has quite a lot of satire in his writing.

ilduclo · 12.26.2009, 08:29 PM

Michael Brodsky, Cormac McCarthy

automatic bzooty · 12.26.2009, 09:40 PM

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i like brett easton-ellis quite a lot too. he is always very descriptive and has quite a lot of satire in his writing.

[pussy alert!] american psycho is the only book that has ever made me feel, like, physically sick.

i'd consider that a good thing, though. somewhat negative reaction >>>>> no reaction

jon boy · 12.27.2009, 11:38 AM

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[pussy alert!] american psycho is the only book that has ever made me feel, like, physically sick.

i'd consider that a good thing, though. somewhat negative reaction >>>>> no reaction

yes i did feel pretty uneasy after reading some of that book. my wife is reading it right now and keeps squirming everytime a nasty bit happens. the film was atrocious.

chairman of the bored · 12.27.2009, 01:20 PM

While he's not my favorite writer, I truly do admire Burroughs. It seems like he was writing in order to survive his problems. Writing his way out of the shit of the world. The best of his work is some of the most brutal and desparate stuff I've read, more so than anyone else coming to mind right now.

I also admire writers who can put extremely complex theories and ideas into understandable language.

And I fucking love Walt Whitman.

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loubarret expwy. to yr skull Join Date: May 2009 Location: The Dutch suburbs Posts: 1,573	Well the stand beat poet (influnced things) and Oscar Wilde but that's more plays
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Keeping It Simple invito al cielo Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 3,721	American authors I most admire: Stephen Donaldson Gene Wolfe John Scalzi Joe Haldeman H.P. Lovecraft Robert E. Howard
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Torn Curtain invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: France Posts: 7,997	Camus, Beckett, Blake, Ginsberg, TS Eliot I sure forget other ones. __________________ "Si seulement nous avions le courage des oiseaux qui chantent dans le vent glacé"
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chicka expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: wormtown MA Posts: 1,549	Dickens, Hemmingway, Puzo __________________ some men just want to watch the world burn
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ilduclo invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3,305	Michael Brodsky, Cormac McCarthy
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chairman of the bored the destroyed room Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 569	While he's not my favorite writer, I truly do admire Burroughs. It seems like he was writing in order to survive his problems. Writing his way out of the shit of the world. The best of his work is some of the most brutal and desparate stuff I've read, more so than anyone else coming to mind right now. I also admire writers who can put extremely complex theories and ideas into understandable language. And I fucking love Walt Whitman. __________________ stay awake to the ways of the world
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