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OfflineDosile Kouki
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Re: Who is your favorite writer? [Re: pouihi]
    #14423899 - 05/09/11 10:26 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

dostoyevski (sp?) is great ! Crime and punishment was one of my favourites.


I'd say my favourite is Victor Hugo - the guy who wrote Les Miserables.


Although i don't have a great ammount of reading experience, Les Miserables was just an amazing story. I'd never read anything like it. I can see why it's renowned as a classic, because modern day writers really do not write with the quality or depth that some of the greats do. Just try reading Les Miserables and you will see what i mean. The level of description and character developement is astounding.


Modern books are all about situations and to a lesser degree the characters. 'bob walked in the store and said something' Where as Victor Hugo's writing is all about the characters and to a lesser degree the situation. Victor will tell you the internal struggles of the character of the decisions leading up to, during, after and the consequences and how they effect the character. The developement of the characters is really un-parralleled (sp??) in my experience.


I highly recomend Les Miserables!!


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Re: Who is your favorite writer? [Re: Dosile Kouki]
    #14424582 - 05/09/11 01:10 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

hunter s. thompson
robert anton wilson
dan simmons
bulgakov
lovecraft


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Re: Who is your favorite writer? [Re: Dosile Kouki]
    #14424634 - 05/09/11 01:22 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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DosileFlynn said:
I'd say my favourite is Victor Hugo - the guy who wrote Les Miserables.


Although i don't have a great ammount of reading experience, Les Miserables was just an amazing story. I'd never read anything like it. I can see why it's renowned as a classic, because modern day writers really do not write with the quality or depth that some of the greats do. Just try reading Les Miserables and you will see what i mean. The level of description and character developement is astounding.


Modern books are all about situations and to a lesser degree the characters. 'bob walked in the store and said something' Where as Victor Hugo's writing is all about the characters and to a lesser degree the situation. Victor will tell you the internal struggles of the character of the decisions leading up to, during, after and the consequences and how they effect the character. The developement of the characters is really un-parralleled (sp??) in my experience.


I highly recomend Les Miserables!!



Les Miserables is probably my fav book of all time. I don't think I can call Victor Hugo my favorite writer based on this one book but nevertheless, it is simply fantastic.

The unabridged version often takes very long deviations from the story to really build on an element of the story. There is one specific section on the Parisian sewer system that goes on for a bout 150 pages with no mention of the story's characters at all. Its necessary to the story to a point but it can definitely drag if you aren't ready for it.



Other than Les Miserables, I am a huge fan of Watership Down by Richard Adams (as is evident by my username and avatar). I cannot think of a single person who wouldn't like that book. Its so universal.

And pretty much anything by Arthur C Clarke.


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Re: Who is your favorite writer? [Re: frith]
    #14424700 - 05/09/11 01:36 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Definitely J.R.R Tolkien, not necessarily LOTR but all of his books, amazing.
Sean Williams, try the books of the cataclysm, VERY unique!
Clive Barker, he is awesome, especially if you're not looking to increase your vocabulary.
I liked the Abarat series that he refuses to finish... I've been waiting 5 years.
Try Patrick Rothfuss, the name of the wind.
The second one just came out! :smile:


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Re: Who is your favorite writer? [Re: Jiji]
    #14424814 - 05/09/11 02:00 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Neil Gaiman

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Re: Who is your favorite writer? [Re: druqs]
    #14424837 - 05/09/11 02:08 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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druqs said:
Neil Gaiman




Yes! Big love to your taste in books.


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Re: Who is your favorite writer? [Re: druqs]
    #14424843 - 05/09/11 02:08 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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druqs said:
Neil Gaiman




I was just going to say that, and there it is the last post.

American Gods
The novel is a blend of Americana, fantasy, and various strands of ancient and modern mythology, all centring on a  mysterious and taciturn protagonist, Shadow.

Anansi Boys
is a novel by Neil Gaiman, a spin-off of Gaiman's earlier novel American Gods.

Good Omens w/ Terry Pratchett
The book is a comedy and a quasi-parody of the 1976 film The Omen (as well as other books and films of the genre), concerning the birth of the son of Satan, the coming of the End Times and the attempts of the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley to avert them, having become accustomed to their comfortable situations in the human world.


Speaking of Terry Pratchett the Disk world Series is a fun read. I like the books that revolve around Rincewind. You don't really have to read them in any order.
Small Gods
is the thirteenth of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, published in 1992. It tells the origin of the god Om, and his relations with his prophet, the reformer Brutha. In the process, it satirises religious institutions, people, and practices, and the role of religion in political life.


My wife really likes Raymond E Feist. But his series is about 30 books or so.

Oh and of course Douglas Adams I don't recall seeing his name in the previous posts.



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Re: Who is your favorite writer? [Re: druqs]
    #14424880 - 05/09/11 02:20 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Some good answers in here.

I would have to say a tie between

HP Lovecraft




and Kurt Vonnegut



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Re: Who is your favorite writer? [Re: NetDiver]
    #14424894 - 05/09/11 02:23 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)



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Re: Who is your favorite writer? [Re: NetDiver]
    #14424934 - 05/09/11 02:31 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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Samurai Drifter said:
Some good answers in here.

I would have to say a tie between

HP Lovecraft









can't believe i forgot Lovecraft!

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Re: Who is your favorite writer? [Re: ssblind]
    #14424936 - 05/09/11 02:31 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Gregory David Roberts he wrote Shantaram awesome book :laugh:

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Re: Who is your favorite writer? [Re: 4runner]
    #14424947 - 05/09/11 02:33 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

William Gibson's definitely up there. Hermann Hesse is also one of my favorites. And Douglas Adams, hitchhikers guide to the galaxy is amazing.
Someone mentioned Christopher Moore on the first page, this is my favorite book by him:
It's about Jesus, and fucking hilarious, while still being a bit more philosophical than his other books.

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Re: Who is your favorite writer? [Re: orangeyouglad]
    #14424988 - 05/09/11 02:44 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Alice B. Tolstoy

David Foster Carlos Williams

James Joyce Carol Oates

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OfflineVsnares.Zappa
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Re: Who is your favorite writer? [Re: Me_Roy]
    #14425035 - 05/09/11 02:55 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

CHOMSKY
HOWARD ZINN
BUKOWSKI
SARTRE
ALBERT CAMUS

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Re: Who is your favorite writer? [Re: Vsnares.Zappa]
    #14425355 - 05/09/11 04:10 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

This thread inspired me to head out to my local Borders that is closing down and see what they had left.  Picked up Huxley's Ape and Essence for 4 bucks, not bad.

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Re: Who is your favorite writer? [Re: Vsnares.Zappa]
    #14425740 - 05/09/11 05:22 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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Vsnares.Zappa said:
BUKOWSKI
SARTRE
ALBERT CAMUS



:thumbup::thumbup:


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Re: Who is your favorite writer? [Re: stranger_danger]
    #14425799 - 05/09/11 05:34 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

A lot of writers, but they are like apples and oranges (and cherries and bananas, etc)

SO...
Philip K. Dick
Theodore Sturgeon (Short stories)
Gene Wolf
Arthur C. Clarke


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Re: Who is your favorite writer? [Re: starfire_xes]
    #14425872 - 05/09/11 05:45 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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starfire_xes said:
A lot of writers, but they are like apples and oranges (and cherries and bananas, etc)

SO...
Philip K. Dick
Theodore Sturgeon (Short stories)
Gene Wolf
Arthur C. Clarke






you should check out Alfred Bester if you like Sci-fi.

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Re: Who is your favorite writer? [Re: druqs]
    #14425882 - 05/09/11 05:47 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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druqs said:



you should check out Alfred Bester if you like Sci-fi.




I love Alfred Bester, especially 'The Stars My Destination'  he wrote that, and one or two other novels and a few short stories.  I have it all in my collection.


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Re: Who is your favorite writer? [Re: starfire_xes]
    #14425938 - 05/09/11 05:54 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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starfire_xes said:
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druqs said:



you should check out Alfred Bester if you like Sci-fi.




I love Alfred Bester, especially 'The Stars My Destination'  he wrote that, and one or two other novels and a few short stories.  I have it all in my collection.




thought you might :thumbup: The Stars My Destination is too epicly awesome,

had me sweating all the way through and where he is trppin the fuck out at the end.. :awegroove:  :yuno: 
  :wtfsonic: !!

Cordwainer Smith is good shit too.

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