• ✍️ WORDS ✍️

    Welcome Guest!

  • Words Moderators: Shambles

Favorite Author?

Erica Jong is breaking even with Virginia Woolf. both these ladies also appreciate black and white photos.

erica-jong.jpg


Untitled-12.jpg


if we ever got to Fahrenheit 451 status, I would be "Fear of Flying" walking along the traintracks.

for all you Bukowski lovers - do you like John Fante?
 
MyDoorsAreOpen said:
I've never gotten the appeal of all those rough-cut, shaggy bearded, grumpy, alcoholic macho loners, who write in raw shocking prose that smacks of unquenchable frustration.
Click to expand...

You could have just said, "I don't like Bukowski." ;)
 
wouldn't wanna go off topic. i'm sure there is a favorite book thread on bluelight. we'll meet there, someday.
 
I can take larger doses of Bukowski than most if only because drinking & gambling is up my alley (albeit not to degree he was). Even then the subject matter does get somewhat stale eventually.

Anyway, Kafka needs more love in this thread as does Dostoyevsky. Really anything existentialist. Also, shout out to Knut Hamsun!
 
Kurt Vonnegut is the man!

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'" - Kurt
 
Oof, favorite is hard to say. I'll give two for very different reasons:

Kurt Vonnegut for his incredible imagination and storytelling - the writing itself sometimes leaves something to be desired, but he was filled to bursting with creativity, and I admire him for that.
Fyodor Dostoevsky for being able to write so goddamn beautifully. His sentences are works of fucking art. I wish i could crawl into his head for just a second!
 
Wow, have I been out of this forum so long that I didn't post in this thread?
To name just one, gotta go with Heinlein.
 
Probably Dostoyevsky. Nothing has blown my mind like The Brother's Karamazov. One you get through the tedious 500-600 page back story, the last 400 pages are mindblowing in a way I haven't experienced before or since. Crime and Punishment and Notes from the Underground are insanely awesome as well.
 
ah, Dostoyevsky. Good stuff....gooood stu- You aren't getting the 26 dollars and you're despicable for trying
 
^ Ray Bradbury is one of my all time favorites. He perfected what I'd say is a lost art today: writing stories that are creepy but never vile.

If Edward Hopper wrote stories instead of painting paintings, he'd be Ray Bradbury. Those two guys capture the same wistful, dreamy, nostalgic, but at the same time unsettlingly quiet sort of feeling.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top