Name the ten most influential writers concerning your very own writing style.

[Thou]

Title says it all.

Mine:


In no particular order.

1) Hunter Stockton Thompson
2) Herman Melville
3) Aldous Huxley
4) Joyce
5) William Steward Burroughs
6) Mark Twain
7) Ken Kesey
8. H.L. Mencken
9) Terrence Mckenna (I know, but sometimes you need a little wacky pseudoscience to create a universe in a novel)
10) Allan Watts

Also a bushel of current journalism and conspiracy nuts, experential real life encounters, medical science books, metaphysical books, etc.


NEXT

 

[xxxyyy]

hmmm.
in no particular order:
louis-ferdinand celine
james ellroy
william s. burroughs
samuel beckett
alasdair gray
comte de lautremont
jim thompson
j.g. ballard
antonin artaud
franz kafka

 

[chasethedrag13]

wow this is a good question really in no order at all:

1) Hunter S. Thompson
2) George Orwell
3) Edgar Allan Poe
4) H.P Lovecraft
5) Ken Kesey

i love all these writers, they are all amazing, especially Thompson and Lovecraft, both who i admire greatly.

 

[Thou]

Poe is a good one I really should have done at least top 20 but we can edit and add as we going along. There's so many to choose from they keep bubbling up like pockets in boiling oatmeal.

11) Daniel Quinn
12) Edgar Cayce
13) Alexander/Ann Shulgin
14) William Faulkner
15) KURT VONNEGUT (can't believe I neglected to add him)
16) Joseph Conrad
17) Joseph Heller (Catch-22, closing time. Perfects the funniest and most clever peice or literature I've encountered.)
18) C.G. Jung
19) Henry Miller
20) The Book of Revelations (I'm agnostic, it's just a king-hell piece, as hunter would say.)

 

[xxxyyy]

6) Mark Twain

i'm not a particular fan of twain, but his quotes on jane austen are golden:

"I haven't any right to criticise books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone."
"Jane Austen? Why I go so far as to say that any library is a good library that does not contain a volume by Jane Austen. Even if it contains no other book."

yeah, i fucking loathe jane austen

 

[Thou]

I dug his piece where he talked about what horrible beasts human beings are.

That alone landed him a spot.

AND JUMPIN' FUCKIN' JESUS I FORGOT FRANK HERBERT.

Dune imo is unquestionably the most profound series of books ever to grace the shelves of any science fiction section. The man was a god.

 

[ugly]

I love you Thou. I love you chase.

Hunter was and is my hero.

He lived like a boss. He died like a boss. (I understood. I wasn't happy, but I understood.)

 

[Thou]

Yeah he rode with the king.

I plan on writing his widow and perhaps going out to Woody Creek one of these days. I'd love a picture of me with a typewriter next to a few peacocks. I've got a few steadman tattoos already.

I love what he wrote about the back-alley scum who tried him for five felonies and he beat every one!

"We beat them like dogs."

 

[ugly]

THOU???

are you serious dude?

Can you go to woody creek?

Can I see your steadman tats?

I've been in awe of Hunter for so long.... I was very pained at his death but I understood it completely.

He did what was right for him.

 

[pk.]

1. Liam Rector
2. Wallace Stevens
3. James Tate
4. Kurt Cobain

 

[DamagedLemon]

Haruki Murakami
George Orwell
Kurt Vonnegut (even quoted him in a story I am writing)
Jack Kerouac
Allen Ginsberg
Paul Auster
F Scott Fitzgerald

 

[Thou]

THOU???

are you serious dude? I indeed am.

Can you go to woody creek? Certainly. I'm sure it would take some months of correspondance but I'm sure Anita would see me.

Can I see your steadman tats? Sure.

I've been in awe of Hunter for so long.... I was very pained at his death but I understood it completely. I took mushrooms that night. I didn't know what it meant at the time, but now I share his viewpoint. When I want out of this prison bag of skin and nerves, I'm getting the fuck out. Probably drowning with an anaesthetic ketamine dose to ease the pain.

He did what was right for him. Yes. I think so too.

Half sleeve in progress. Not the best pic but I'm heading out gotta make dinners.



There's a Woody Creek blog Anita writes from, she's very sweet lady. I've got a peacock tattoo on my forearm too PM me if you want it I'll have to dig.