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Malkmus · 10-18-2004, 11:11 PM

So let's see if there are some book lovers round here!
Who are your favorite writers ?
( No Hugh Heffner's not a writer)

I'll start with a short list of american & european writers, i may add some later.

American writers:

Charles Bukowski
William Burroughs
John Irving
Philip Roth
Henry Miller
Kerouac
Philip K. Dick

European Writers:

Kafka
Camus
Dostoievski
Celine
MC Liam Wilson
Andric

CybermedAndy · 10-18-2004, 11:12 PM

Bret Easton Ellis

Lifer · 10-18-2004, 11:25 PM

Robert Ludlum
Robert Tanenbaum
Stuart Woods
Nelson Deville
Michael Crichton
David Baldacci
John Grisham
Michael Connelly

Toonlogos · 10-18-2004, 11:34 PM

Terry Pratchett
Tom Holt
Anthony Piers

Tom Sharpe
Carl Hiaasen
John Grisham

Isaac Asimov
Tolkien
Enid Blyton

Agatha Christie
Erle Stanley Gardener
P G Wodehouse

steve90 · 10-18-2004, 11:41 PM

niall mansfield hands down the best

naughty_weena · 10-18-2004, 11:46 PM

Anne Rice
John Grisham

Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte

sicktwistedmedia · 10-18-2004, 11:50 PM

Chuck Palahniuk

ShellyCrash · 10-18-2004, 11:59 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by sicktwistedmedia
Chuck Palahniuk

I dig his stuff.. I also like

John Steinbeck
Fyodor Dostoievski
Arthur Rimbaud
the entertwining books of Kerouak, Burroughs, the beats
Jim goad
Leornard Cohen
etc..

fudpuck · 10-19-2004, 12:05 AM

Hunter S Thompson...

lloyd · 10-19-2004, 12:18 AM

larry flynt?

AlienQ - BANNED FOR LIFE · 10-19-2004, 12:25 AM

HP Lovecraft

stereolab · 10-19-2004, 12:29 AM

raymond carver
dostoevsky
samuel beckett
kafka
sartre

JasonB · 10-19-2004, 01:06 AM

Kerouac
Bukowski

nofx · 10-19-2004, 01:07 AM

poe
thoreau
emerson

Malkmus · 10-19-2004, 07:58 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by ShellyCrash
I dig his stuff.. I also like

John Steinbeck
Fyodor Dostoievski
Arthur Rimbaud
the entertwining books of Kerouak, Burroughs, the beats
Jim goad
Leornard Cohen
etc..

Cohen's Beautiful Losers is a very nice read

quincy · 10-19-2004, 08:10 AM

J.R.R. Tolkien
Dan Brown
Sydney Sheldon
John Grisham
Umberto Eco
James Patterson
Tom Clancy

Goatse · 10-19-2004, 01:41 PM

Robert Greene, Robert Cialdini, Dale Carnegie.

reynold · 10-20-2004, 01:43 AM

dickens
poe
austen
dostoyevsky

camus
beckett

grisham
turow
dan brown
stephen king

smack · 10-20-2004, 01:48 AM

Hunter S. Thompson
Daniel Pinchebeck
Leo Tolstoy

SpikeHeel · 10-20-2004, 01:52 AM

how about some sidney sheldon or john grisham.

smack · 10-20-2004, 02:00 AM

JRR Tolkien
William Shakespeare
isaac asimov

bringer · 10-20-2004, 02:01 AM

Michael Crichton

Theo · 10-20-2004, 02:05 AM

martha stewart

Sid70 · 10-20-2004, 02:10 AM

Carlos Castaneda

liquidmoe · 10-20-2004, 03:12 AM

William Gibson
James Frey
Chuck Palahniuk
J.G. Ballard

quincy · 10-20-2004, 03:50 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by SpikeHeel
how about some sidney sheldon or john grisham.

i love the plot twist on most of sheldon's books, esp in Windmills of the Gods

DeadFidel · 01-27-2006, 09:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by liquidmoe

William Gibson
James Frey
Chuck Palahniuk
J.G. Ballard

WOW you got fucked 2 years ago?

Raven · 01-27-2006, 10:04 AM

Great listings.

I'll add:

WEB Griffin

mortenb · 01-27-2006, 10:13 AM

William Gibson and Terry Pratchett

Gnat69 · 01-27-2006, 10:15 AM

Patricia Cornwell
Authur C. Clark
Miguel Ruiz
Dean Koontz
Isaac Asimov
Kurt Vonnegut
Angus Oblong

jawanda · 01-27-2006, 10:17 AM

Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Robbins are top of my list lately.

-P

Raven · 01-27-2006, 10:18 AM

Nikos Kazantzakis - The Last Temptation of Christ. Don't see the movie. Read the book.

Jennyfer · 01-27-2006, 03:58 PM

I love the brazilian writer, Paulo Coelho

D · 01-27-2006, 05:19 PM

Dan Brown (liked 'Angels and Demons' even more than 'The Da Vinci Code')
Isaac Asimov (Foundation = best Sci-Fi Set ever)
Tom Clancy (anything he didnt collaborate on)
Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse 5 is still stuck in my head 15 years later)
Robert Heinland ('Stranger in a Strange Land' my fave book of all time)
Hunter S. Thompson
Jack Kerouac

...gotta read "Last Temptation of Christ"... thanks for the recommendation.

Manga1 · 01-27-2006, 05:35 PM

D.H. Lawrence
T.S. Eliot
V.S. Naipaul
James Joyce
Joseph Conrad
Saul Bellow

Mr. Mojo Risin · 01-27-2006, 05:44 PM

Charles Dickens - favorite
Kurt Vonnegut
Alexandre Dumas - second favorite
Tolkien
Jack Kerouac
JD Salinger
Jonathan Swift

Azlord · 01-27-2006, 05:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JasonB

Kerouac
Bukowski

Like you can even read!

Mr. Mojo Risin · 01-27-2006, 05:48 PM

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