Literature Thread in vein of Music Thread

[Adios]

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.

[Jasper]

Odd though, I thought everyone here was tired of RAW.  Net, what's your favorite book of his?

[Apikoros II]

I gotta tell you, I am still a big fan of RAW, I don't think I could ever grow tired of him!

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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.

[Kai]

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.

[eighteen buddha strike]

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
       

[Iason Ouabache]

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.