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Who's your favorite author and what is your favorite book by them?
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I AM WARHOL
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Orson Card isnt my favorite author but Enders game is easily my favorite book.
I honestly don't think I have a favorite author, but the two books I've easily read the most in my life:
Crime & Punishment by Dostoevsky
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Guess I'm morbid as fukk but the atmosphere of isolation and paranoia in both just gets to me
Crime & Punishment by Dostoevsky
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Guess I'm morbid as fukk but the atmosphere of isolation and paranoia in both just gets to me
this poster tried reading that book, the poster gave up halfway trough and put the book gently back on the shelf The poster realised that the book is boring and overrated.
Grand Conde
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Tolkien if I'm being honest. 'Catch 22' is my favourite book however. I need to read more honestly.
Dukeof_StL
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Walter Mosley and Dean Koontz. Currently reading Mosley's Easy Rawlins series in the order written.
NobodyReally
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It's beginning to finally get cold on the east coast, which is when I stay inside and get a ton of reading done in my free time. Some great time can be spent on cold days chillen with a good book, some coffee and some herbals
We need some more literature discussions in here and I think this is a good topic to get out into the ether.
I've been a die hard Kurt Vonnegut fan since I discovered his stuff about 6 years ago. Own and have read just about everything he's ever written but am holding off on reading Sirens of Titan and Hocus Pocus until next Summer.
As far as my favorite, I'm torn between Cat's Cradle and Bluebeard
Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s Cradle is one of the twentieth century’s most important works—and Vonnegut at his very best.
Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story—and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man’s careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves
I could list at least 5 others to argue as his best or my favorite, but that's not what this is for.
Who do you guys need to read obsessively and what are their pinnacle pieces of writing? I'm looking to expand my literature horizons and find another author as great as Vonnegut. Share your thoughts brehs/brehettes
I only dapped you because I really love the thread, but I cannot stand Vonnegut. Maybe I started off wrong by reading Slaughterhouse Five, but I did not like that book at all so it's hard for me to think about reading anything else by him. Maybe I'll reconsider and try one of the recs you posted and give him one more shot. People seem to love him.
I think when we start talking about favorite books and authors, there's a level of self-consciousness that creeps in - people start naming all of the literary greats with critical acclaim, and I get a little suspicious and wonder if that's really what people like or if it's just what they like among the classics because they're expected to like them. But that's probably just my own shyt and I'm projecting. That being said, I tend to divide my favorites into two categories - the so-called classics and the mainstream stuff for the masses.
The Classics
1. My favorite author and book by far is F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby". The book just really fukked with my head. The themes it addresses are timeless - class, obsession, ambition, power, frontin' like you're a G and got it all together, when really you're life is shyt just like everyone else's. And it's written so beautifully.
2. Second runner-up is a tie between Richard Wright's 'Black Boy' and Toni Morrison's "Bluest Eye". Both books really stuck with me for months afterwards and I keep returning to them over the years. I think they capture so much of the black experience and struggle even though they were written before I was born.
Popular Fiction
In terms of popular fiction not necessarily considered classic, I love Stephen King. I know he gets a lot of shyt because people say he's long winded, has problems with editing, and recycles certain themes and devices, but he's still the best at what he does. He knows how to tell a damn good story, and make you care about the characters. Some of his books are much better than others, but even a bad Stephen King book is pretty entertaining. My favorite from him will always be 'The Stand', followed closely by "Different Seasons'.
Thanks for bringing that up breh. I started just like everyone else for the most part reading Slaughterhouse Five first because, well, that's what everyone says you should do.
It's by far my least favorite. Kurt can be a bit of a downer but holy shyt this book is dark. What I took away from it though and what made him feel like a kindred spirit was his prose and completely fukking strange ideas.
I'll even put Slapstick, Player Piano and Galapagos above Slaughterhouse but I'll always appreciate it for immediately inserting the reader into his amazing universe with Kilgore Trout, the Tralfamadorians, etc.
You should give him another chance with Cats Cradle or even Mother Night and see if he can't redeem himself with you.
KevCo
Bond's gun spoke once....
Chuck Planuik is my favorite author...i still gotta read one or two more of his books along with Fight Club 2....
I love reading but i always forget to...ill read a book straight through then get caught up in life and not read for another 6 months
I love reading but i always forget to...ill read a book straight through then get caught up in life and not read for another 6 months
I love Fight Club. I just finished Invisible Monsters Remix
I also loved Haunted when I read it way back when. The short stories ranged everywhere from
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I have Diary sitting on my shelf that I stole from my brother in law. It's supposed to be one of his best so I need to get around to it sometime soon
KevCo
Bond's gun spoke once....
Read survivor? Thats my favorite from himI love Fight Club. I just finished Invisible Monsters Remix
I also loved Haunted when I read it way back when. The short stories ranged everywhere from
I have Diary sitting on my shelf that I stole from my brother in law. It's supposed to be one of his best so I need to get around to it sometime soon
Which of these novels would make a good movie adaptation? Would King Suckerman?
I think The Big Blowdown would make the best movie adaptation or of these, but honestly I think most of his novels would translate well but of how great he is at writing dialogue.
I know a movie adaptation for his novel Shoedog had been in the works for years.