1. Fave Novelist
2. Fave Poet
3. Fave Non-Fiction Author
4. Fave author who ain't some nancy boy esoteric impress the english teacher mo-fo
For me:
1. Cormac McCarthy
2. TS Elliot
3. Harold Zinn or Chomsky
4. Stephen King
1. Stephenie Meyer.
2. Stephenie Meyer.
3. Stephenie Meyer.
4. Charlene Harris.
1. Fave Novelist
2. Fave Poet
3. Fave Non-Fiction Author
4. Fave author who ain't some nancy boy esoteric impress the english teacher mo-fo
1. Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman
2. Rumi
3. Matt Goodman atm
4. Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman (I have entire shelves devoted to their books)
William Burroughs
Shel Silverstein
Gary Gygax
Charles De Lint
Neal Stephenson
n/a
Dr. V.S. Ramachandran OR Doug Hofstadter ETA: OR Daniel Dennett
Charles Stross
Douglas Adams
e.e.cummings
Daniel Dennett
wut?
1. This is tough, because a couple of my favourite books, are the author's only work (Harper Lee and Steven Hall). But for authors who wrote more than one novel, either Gaiman or Palahniuk.
2. Probably Coleridge, I don't read enough poetry.
3. I don't usually read non-fiction based on authors I just find recommendations and topics that I like. But if I had to pick; Karl Kruszelnicki.
4. Guilty pleasure reading? Matthew Reilly, that man knows how to write an action scene.
1. As far as having really enjoyed more than one book, Chuck Pahlanuik.
2. Poe, or Ogden Nash.
3. John Pilger.
4. Had trouble, but then Rumckle reminded me of Riley. I ended up being the only person in a literature class willing to defend the work. ('There's no character development!' 'Well, no, but... explosions!')
Quote from: Placid Dingo on July 31, 2010, 03:28:39 AM
4. Had trouble, but then Rumckle reminded me of Riley. I ended up being the only person in a literature class willing to defend the work. ('There's no character development!' 'Well, no, but... explosions!')
But there is character development, people go from being alive to being dead.
Or alive to dead to hey wait no I wasn't really dead lol
I hate list threads but I'll contribute my not very exciting list:
1) Vladimir Nabokov
2) T. S Eliot
3) Stephen Hawking
4) Isabel Allende
Kaptain Kangaroo
Bob Newhart
Sam Kinison
Yogi Berra
What was this list again?
Quote from: Doktor Alphapance on July 30, 2010, 07:00:55 PM
1. Stephenie Meyer.
2. Stephenie Meyer.
3. Stephenie Meyer.
4. Charlene Harris.
:spittake:
1. Fave Novelist
2. Fave Poet
3. Fave Non-Fiction Author
4. Fave author who ain't some nancy boy esoteric impress the english teacher mo-fo
1) Mark Twain
2) Edgar Allen Poe
3) Me :lol:
4) Jack London
1. Fave Novelist
2. Fave Poet
3. Fave Non-Fiction Author
4. Fave author who ain't some nancy boy esoteric impress the english teacher mo-fo
1. Tom Robbins
2. Sepia
3. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
4. Robert Anton Wilson
Quote from: Ne+@uNGr0+ on August 02, 2010, 03:56:04 AM
1. Fave Novelist
2. Fave Poet
3. Fave Non-Fiction Author
4. Fave author who ain't some nancy boy esoteric impress the english teacher mo-fo
1. Tom Robbins
2. Sepia
3. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
4. Robert Anton Wilson
Sepia is very good. I usually have to read her stuff 3 or 4 times to get it all.
Odd though, I thought everyone here was tired of RAW. Net, what's your favorite book of his?
I gotta tell you, I am still a big fan of RAW, I don't think I could ever grow tired of him!
Quote from: Sigmatic on August 03, 2010, 07:08:05 AM
Odd though, I thought everyone here was tired of RAW. Net, what's your favorite book of his?
Probably Prometheus Rising. That said, I do like to kill my idols, so take that with a grain of salt.
1. Fave Novelist
2. Fave Poet
3. Fave Non-Fiction Author
4. Fave author who ain't some nancy boy esoteric impress the english teacher mo-fo
1. No way I can choose.
2. Tom Montag. End statement.
3. EO Wilson, or Aldo Leopold, or Edward Abbey. Pick one.
4. See #1.
Its really hard to pick just one, but here goes
1. Henry Miller or Hemingway or Steinbeck or Fitzgerald or Pynchon
2. William Blake or Poe or Ogden Nash or Samuel Coleridge or Shelley
3. Oliver Sachs or Locke or Voltaire or Aasimov or Zinn
4. Robert E. Howard or P.K. Dick or H.P. Lovecraft or Vonnegut or Tolkein
Honorable Mentions:
Hunter S. Thompson
Richard Farina
Frank Herbert
Damn. I forgot about Asimov as a non-fiction writer. His "Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology" was one of the most influential books I've read. And yes, I read the entire thing cover to cover. I was such a nerd.