Great Writers

Naan_Bread · Post by **Naan_Bread** » Sun Jan 08, 2012 9:37 pm

Can't wait for someone to mention Ayn Rand and get flamed.

bright maroon · Post by **bright maroon** » Sun Jan 08, 2012 10:00 pm

J.G. Ballard is truly fantastic...I'm almost through his complete short stories...

Love Haruki Murakami - especially his later work
The Wind Up Bird Chronicles
Kafka on The Shore

although his weird shit is interesting as well - the short stories
The Elephant Vanishes

and his cyber punk stuff - about kappas and mind programming...err what's the title
Sheep Chase - A Wild Sheep Chase....I'll google it - It is - A Wild Sheep Chase
and A Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Tony Takitani made for a beautiful film...dark though - and abstract
..mostly about loss and personal dysjunction

his website is really nice...with the music and the chimes and the cats

http://www.randomhouse.com/features/mur ... te.php?id=

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JBoy · Post by **JBoy** » Sun Jan 08, 2012 10:11 pm

bright maroon wrote:J.G. Ballard is truelly fantastic...I'm almost through his complete short stories...

Love Haruki Murakami - especially his later work
The Wind up Bird Chronicles
Kafka on The Shore

although his weird shit is interesting as well - the short stories
The Elephant Vanishes

and his cyber punk stuff - about kappas and mind programming...err what's the title
Sheep Chase - A Wild Sheep Chase....I'll google it - It is - A Wild Sheep Chase
and Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Tony Takitani made for a beautiful film...

Got some ancient paperback penguin short stories wriiten by ballad, drowned world is still one of my favourites though.

fractal · Post by **fractal** » Sun Jan 08, 2012 10:15 pm

frank herbert is my man

also have always loved rushkoff

bright maroon · Post by **bright maroon** » Sun Jan 08, 2012 10:39 pm

Ballards concepts are so epic and core to science fiction..
that I can't believe I had never heard of him...

I kinda want to read Vermillion Sands as the complete novel now...

I've heard Drowned World called out a few times as well...

I can't even begin to pick a favorite by him..he did everything so well...

All the abandoned cities - He has found two dozen ways to abandon a city..
All the hated Divas with snow white/sleeping beauty issues...
..with over-protective jewelled insects...flying manta rays...
Surviving in severely hostile enviromental outposts at the edge of future civilizations...
Sentient buildings and sculpture and plants and musical instruments...

HamCrescendo · Post by **HamCrescendo** » Sun Jan 08, 2012 10:43 pm

Motorway to Roswell wrote:I started On The Road and got fed up with it about halfway through. I think its importance outweighs its quality. I will give it another go at some point though. I'm not going dismiss it that quickly.

Capote's remark about Kerouac made me chuckle.

"That's not writing, it's typing"

its one of those books that I've never given up reading, but really doesnt inspire me to read anymore. I'm kinda hoping the incoming movie makes me finish it but was pretty disappointed with it. it really is just a journey, and i suppose half of the journey is waiting to get to somewhere decent (eg old bull in new orleans).

cheers for the reccomendation btw will give it a look

and naan, yeah its really touched a nerve with me, and fiction hasnt done that to me since i was a kid. Plus camus does seem like a fucking don, any intellectual that preferred football to theatre is all right by me.

ballard is brilliant, think crash is actually one of his weakest though (along with empire of the sun which i couldnt get into at all), but the sheer pornography of it managed to get me into naked lunch which ill always be thankful for though

( btw does anyone end up thinking about literature more when theyre in absolutely no state to read it ie now drunken)

bright maroon · Post by **bright maroon** » Sun Jan 08, 2012 11:08 pm

..Naked Lunch was Burroughs
...but Cronenberg messed with both Burroughs and Ballard..

James Kofi · Post by **James Kofi** » Sun Jan 08, 2012 11:16 pm

Naan Bread wrote:Can't wait for someone to mention Ayn Rand and get flamed.

you must lead an inescapably exciting life.

knotoo · Post by **knotoo** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 2:32 am

naguib mahfouz

incnic · Post by **incnic** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 2:42 am

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ehbes · Post by **ehbes** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 4:44 am

John Le Carre
-The tailor of panama
-the soy who came in from the cold
-tinker tailor soldier spy
Jack London
-the call of the wild
Herman Wouk
-the caine Mutiny
James Grady
-six days of the Condor
Donald Hamilton
-Death of a Citizen
Ian Flemming
-Everything
Agatha Christie
-Hercule Poirot
-Miss Marple
AE Poe
- Cask of amontillado
-the Fall of the House of Usher

Those would have to be my top right now

um4mi · Post by **um4mi** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 7:55 am

lol gtfo ppl saying dostoyevsky and shit like that... soooo impressed

leyenda · Post by **leyenda** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 8:07 am

um4mi wrote:lol gtfo ppl saying dostoyevsky and shit like that... soooo impressed

Never read him myself but what's wrong with liking Dostoyevsky?

the_disconekt · Post by **the_disconekt** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 8:15 am

Bob Dylan.

Allen Ginsberg.

Roger Waters.

esfandyar · Post by **esfandyar** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 8:25 am

ray bradbury
peter leinbaugh
e.f. schumacher
oliver sacks
bell hooks
iceberg slim
margaret atwood
octavia butler
sherwood anderson
mark twain (one of the greatest existentialists ever)
jared diamond
cormac mccarthy (the blood meridian trilogy)
david graeber
alexandro jodorosky
peter gelderloos
grant morrison (supergods)

muggle · Post by **muggle** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 10:39 am

Devry[Kaneda] wrote:

First delillo book I've read. Definitely not the last. Plenty of good criticism on consumer/suburban/intellectual-isms.

The protagonist is a professor of Hitler studies in middle America who is on his third wife. All you need to know.

a million times this, it's a fantastic read, one of the books i would recommend to fans of almost any genre. in a way it's a shame it's the first DDL book i read, because i haven't enjoyed any of the others anywhere near as much. people who have suggested 1984 should definitely read it - it's orwellian to a tee, dry humour and really incisive social commentary.

Naan Bread wrote:Can't wait for someone to mention Ayn Rand and get flamed.

i finished atlas shrugged a week before christmas... after having read the fountainhead!

James Kofi · Post by **James Kofi** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 11:35 am

leyenda303 wrote:
um4mi wrote:lol gtfo ppl saying dostoyevsky and shit like that... soooo impressed
Never read him myself but what's wrong with liking Dostoyevsky?

he liked having sex with children and it's the implicit subject of all his books.

Motorway to Roswell · Post by **Motorway to Roswell** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 2:25 pm

leyenda303 wrote:
um4mi wrote:lol gtfo ppl saying dostoyevsky and shit like that... soooo impressed
Never read him myself but what's wrong with liking Dostoyevsky?

I think what they're saying is that people are trying to appear well read / intelligent by suggesting writers like Dostoyevsky.

I dunno, maybe we should all just suggest really poor writers to pander to this person and to avoid being called 'pretentious' or whatever other adjective they see fit.

Should probably just list Dan Brown books from now on.

wub · Post by **wub** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 2:35 pm

Motorway to Roswell wrote:Should probably just list Dan Brown books from now on.

Deception Point and Digital Fortress aren't that bad

Motorway to Roswell · Post by **Motorway to Roswell** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 2:50 pm

wub wrote:
Motorway to Roswell wrote:Should probably just list Dan Brown books from now on.

Deception Point and Digital Fortress aren't that bad

If you like them, fair enough. He's just an easy target.

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