Who is your favorite writer?

[Kyriakos]

Keeping it generic as a question, hopefully so that it shall negate the need to be moved to the arts forum

As for me i had like most people i imagine different favorite authors through the years. First it was Dostoevsky, then Kafka, then De Maupassant. Now i have tried to move past all influences, but i guess the one who i regard still as the most striking (although lacking in many other respects) in metaphora creations is Franz Kafka.
Besides, a book of his collected poems (the ones he wrote in the letters to Felice, Otla and Milena) is to be published next month, and it will rekindle my kafkology a bit

And you?

 

[Dachs]

I can't decide between Hew Strachan, Dennis Showalter, and Paul Schroeder.

 

[Tahuti]

Philip K. Dick, with honorouble mentions to Nietzsche, Palahniuk and Kafka.

 

[downtown]

Buy the ticket. Take the ride.

 

[caketastydelish]

Douglas adams all the way.

 

[Kyriakos]

Apart from the historians Dachs mentioned (i rarely read History i am afraid...) i have read little of the other names as well. With the notable exception of Nietzsche, on whom i wrote almost the majority of my university papers

Which story by Phillip K Dick would you suggest?

 

[SanPellegrino]

Robert Anton Wilson, great writer, great philosopher

 

[Radio Noer]

I've got to go with Joseph Heller.

 

[Takhisis]

We should narrow it down by genre, or at least by language, but Borges deserves a mention.

How can you compare things written in different places, languages and genres?

 

[Kyriakos]

Well Cavafy used to claim that the new 'sophists' (= metaphor for poets) say the same things, altered a bit, that the older poets have said. I think he has a point, in that much of what is being written has been written before, in other ways.

Borges is very good, i agree. I love his short story The house of Asterios Also the Library of Babylon, Founes, Tlon, the Mystical Wonder and my favorite these days: Man on the threshold.

 

[Skwink]

Stephen King, love his books.

 

[Takhisis]

Well Cavafy used to claim that the new 'sophists' (= metaphor for poets) say the same things, altered a bit, that the older poets have said. I think he has a point, in that much of what is being written has been written before, in other ways.

Borges is very good, i agree. I love his short story The house of Asterios Also the Library of Babylon, Founes, Tlon, the Mystical Wonder and my favorite these days: Man on the threshold.

You're forgetting The Aleph. But it's best appreciated in Spanish.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Asimov is fun.

 

[dusters]

Virginie Woolf. Her stream of consciousness is fun. Lewis Caroll. I like children tales, he writes them!

Richard Bach. Nice stories with good bottom lines. Herman Hesse - existanzialism grande.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Isaac Asimov. Back in 2007 I started reading his short-story collections, and the introductions and afterwords he often attached to them made me enamored of his personality. I liked his writing; it tended to be simple, and there was an old-fashioned, almost retro feel to the story themselves, especially the science fiction ones. Later I discovered his nonfiction work. I appreciate his work as a generalist most of all; rather than focusing on one specific area of knowledge, he wrote on the entire human experience and drew connections between fields. I wish to do the same, and we share the same general worldview -- humanistic, progressive -- so he's become my absolute favorite. I have an entire bookcase with nothing but his works in it.

 

[Save_Ferris]

Do poets count? If so, Robert Frost. If not, J. D. Salinger.

 

[Mango Elephant]

Pearl S. Buck at the moment. I've been devouring all her books, mainly because I'm going though a sino-phase.

 

[_random_]

Pearl S. Buck at the moment. I've been devouring all her books, mainly because I'm going though a sino-phase.

We had to read The Good Earth for school last year. I thought it was kind of boring.

 

[KaiserElectric]

Big fan of Harry Turtledove, Ayn Rand, and Joseph Heller.

 

[FriendlyFire]

David weber