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Who is your favorite author, and why?
Mine is George Orwell. His realism and social criticism is interesting and ironically hilarious.
Second is Jonathan Safran Foer, the most devastatingly funny writer on the planet. One could just read the first page of Everything is Illuminated, and he'll be in stitches.
Mine is George Orwell. His realism and social criticism is interesting and ironically hilarious.
Second is Jonathan Safran Foer, the most devastatingly funny writer on the planet. One could just read the first page of Everything is Illuminated, and he'll be in stitches.
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love them all for their dark wit and creativity... just very real... something poetic in that
anyone know of any more obscure writers with a similar style? looking for something new to read
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Why? lol... it should be self explanatory by the end of chapter 1 of this ice and fire series. but
all characters are colored in grey, including villians. Everyone is a human being. there is no such thing as a bad guy who you can't understand. some you even end up liking though they are terrible people. they might become your favorite characters, that's how good a writer he is
best battle scenes i have ever read anywhere
he doesn't make common errors of fantasy writers such as naming conventions. his names are realistic both people and place names are linguistically credible
he writes with a true middle ages ethos meaning, life is cheap among the powerful, but not among the weak
his characters react to the plot in realistic ways.
he does this and it's still very much a fantasy story
he writes WOMEN well. can you imagine?
Warning, this is not for the weak of heart. He has no problem with sex, gore and shockingly killing off important characters you grow to love. he will make you shake
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Tell them.
Now I'm an arsehole musician: Shakespeare.
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt, for his humour, his sarcasm and for the way he describes how people deal with the worst possible incident (The Visit, The Pledge).
My favourite book (dune, the whole series indeed) is by Frank Herbert, so I should put him on my list.
Philip K dick had amazing ideas and a great imagination, but unfortunately he was an awful writer.
Bill bryson is hilarious.
there are more, but they're the first to come to mind.
I also like Shakepeare, Ian McEwan, Mark Haddon and Simon Clarke.
I've always been a fan of British writers.
... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
Palahniuk is one of my favorite writers right now as well. If you ever get a chance to go see him when he does readings on his book tours, you have to go. They are a lot of fun.
Always makes me laugh out loud.
is that exactly what I thought I read."
As for me i really have not read much in the past 10 years insn't that sad?
I always liked Kurt Vonnegut and Ernest Hemingway when i was reading in school
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Also, Carl Hiaasen.
Start with Game Of Thrones. This is a brilliant book. He makes make most people writing in the genre look like crap... He's not a Tolkien rip off. Not by a long shot.
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Aless
Tell them you love them. Never let the mundane, the unimportant, or worse, the misunderstood, be the final words of parting.
Tell them.
One thing about Rice is that you could take huge sections out of her later books and not miss them at all. I hate it when characters talk in circles.
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Aless
Tell them you love them. Never let the mundane, the unimportant, or worse, the misunderstood, be the final words of parting.
Tell them.
Recently I have been reading books by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River) and Howard Zinn. Very brilliant authors.
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I also enjoy Ken Kesey (read Demon Box, a collection of essays), Nick Hornby, and a recent favorite is Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude). I also like Sarah Vowell (from Wait Wait Don't Tell Me) and my guilty pleasure is Ian Fleming's James Bond novels.
Never have enough time to read all I want to...
Storm of Swords rivals Catch-22 for the my fav novel ever... stunning book. I'm holding of on book 4 until the new one's out though! I never found his violence overwhelming, but maybe I've been desensitized. I've found a lot of fantasy readers are surprisingly prudish.
The only Palahniuk book I ever read was Choke, and I thought it sucked terribly. As lame and poser-hip/trendy as could be.
I like Vonnegut, but find that his books aren't particularly memorable. The plots all kind of blur together and you end up just reading the same old philosophy. I agree with it, and they're always light, entertaining reads, but I always feel a bit underwhelmed after a Vonnegut novel. Anyway, I didn't post this to rip on your favs (well, I do like ripping on Palahniuk), but because an author you may like is Tom Robbins. He's similar to Vonnegut in style.
Lehane is awesome. I am a huge hard-boiled detective novel fan, so I love his Gennaro/Kenzie series.
My favs:
Literary: Hemingway, Dostoevsky, Graham Greene
Fantasy: George RR Martin, JRR Tolkien (actually did my undergrad thesis on the Silmarillion)
Mystery: Dennis Lehane, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Ken Bruen
i would recommend you give chuck another shot... but if you dont like one thing of his than he probably just isnt for you... theyre all pretty similar... from what ive read about him biographically though i cant really pick up on any insincerity (or "poser"ness) in his work... kindof like vonnegut, his protagonists (if you can call them that) are usually just thinly veiled self-portraits
the main thing i love about palahniuk and vonnegut are their utter disregard for how a book should be formatted... i know theres plenty of contemporary writers doing that these days but theyre the first i came across and it was very refreshing
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I'm curious if EV read Hard-Boiled. One of the themes of the books was a person's shadow being their soul and how it follows you everywhere (I can't really explain it well w/o giving away any of the plot). I kept thinking of this when I hear Far Behind b/c the imagery was very similar to me.
Give him a chance - its very surreal storytelling.
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My favourite at the moment are: Fernando Pessoa, F. M. Dostojevski, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Kurt Vonnegut.
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I also love Shakespeare (Hamlet being my favourite play) but I should brush up on his works. It's been a while since I've read that stuff.
There are tons of other writers whose books I love but I think that's my top three right there.
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