Favourite Authors

My favorites would be: Peter Hamilton, Frank/Brian Herbert, Ian Irvine, Tim Severin, Dan Simmons, Alfred Bester and Philip K Dick.

Isac Asimov, Richard Matheson, Gene Wolfe, Kim Robinson and Joe Haldeman are all great too.
 
Jean-Pierre said:
Fuck Ayn Rand. And fuck JK Rowling, since I saw her listed back in 1. Grown adults in costumes obsessing over children's books? Fuck me.
Click to expand...


The majority of people end up just reading books that are popular, if they enjoy that and don't mind missing out on far better works then fuck it.
 
tagradh said:
My favorites would be: Peter Hamilton, Frank/Brian Herbert, Ian Irvine, Tim Severin, Dan Simmons, Alfred Bester and Philip K Dick.

Isac Asimov, Richard Matheson, Gene Wolfe, Kim Robinson and Joe Haldeman are all great too.
Click to expand...

What have you read by Gene Wolfe? I've been trying to read Shadow and Claw for a month now and I just can't do it lol...A book about an apprentice torturer with a photographic memory should interest me more but so many pages were devoted to him walking through various gardens and then he was performing in plays with that doctor and the giant...I'm having a really hard time with that book but I've got to finish it..
 
Sigmund Freud
Carl Gustav Jung
Edgar Allan Poe
Jeffery Deaver

...And a friend of mine. His short stories are real MASTERPIECES, I'm not joking.
 
DigToChina said:
What have you read by Gene Wolfe? I've been trying to read Shadow and Claw for a month now and I just can't do it lol...A book about an apprentice torturer with a photographic memory should interest me more but so many pages were devoted to him walking through various gardens and then he was performing in plays with that doctor and the giant...I'm having a really hard time with that book but I've got to finish it..
Click to expand...

I read the Long Sun/Short Sun/New Sun books when I was younger and more recently I have read 'The Knight' and 'The Wizard'.
 
Jean-Pierre said:
Fuck Ayn Rand. And fuck JK Rowling, since I saw her listed back in 1. Grown adults in costumes obsessing over children's books? Fuck me.

William S. Burroughs
Kurt Vonnegut
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Franz Kafka
Albert Camus
Jean Paul Satre
Leo Tolstoy
Sam Delany
George Orwell
BF Skinner
James Joyce
Philip K. Dick
William Faulkner
Salman Rushdie
Click to expand...

:kickass: Great list, except I've never heard of Skinner or Delany, never read Joyce and find Rushdie to be horribly pretentious.

I'll add Orson Scott Card, Isaac Asimov and EA Poe, and consider it done. :)
 
DigToChina said:
What have you read by Gene Wolfe? I've been trying to read Shadow and Claw for a month now and I just can't do it lol...A book about an apprentice torturer with a photographic memory should interest me more but so many pages were devoted to him walking through various gardens and then he was performing in plays with that doctor and the giant...I'm having a really hard time with that book but I've got to finish it..
Click to expand...

Yeah I couldn't stomach that book. What was it trying to do? It was like Wolfe was tripping while writing it and kept going off on massive tangents
 
So I've been wanting to get back into reading for a while now, and HP Lovecraft in particular has caught my eye (it's that new Cthulhu game that piked my interest initially... scary fish people =0). I'm looking for something terrifying and disturbing. Where do I start?
 
Tolkien will always be first, since he started me off on this whole "book learnin'" thing. Aside from him:

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anton Chekhov
William Shakespeare
Miguel de Cervantes
Franz Kafka
Albert Camus
Charles Dickens
Thomas Hardy
Charlotte Bronte
Leo Tolstoy
William Faulkner
HP Lovecraft
Robert E Howard
Edgar Allen Poe

I hope there's nobody major I'm forgetting...
 
Crapples said:
So I've been wanting to get back into reading for a while now, and HP Lovecraft in particular has caught my eye (it's that new Cthulhu game that piked my interest initially... scary fish people =0). I'm looking for something terrifying and disturbing. Where do I start?
Click to expand...

anywhere really. Find a book with the most tales of his.
 
Oh yeah, I kind of forgot about the classics, Dante, Homer, etc. I actually really enjoy Plato's dialogues and the way that they are composed.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
Back