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Who are your favorite writers?

Started by WPG, Aug 5, 2016, in Life Add to Reading List

  1. KnobodyKnows
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    KnobodyKnows

    Aug 6, 2016
    Orwell: 1984 and Animal Farm of course. Both near perfect novels (with 1984 being slightly more perfect).
    Arthur Miller: Though he's a playwright, he is one of the greatest writers ever. The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, and All My Sons are all brilliant.
    Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead and Anthem both changed my life upon reading them and The Fountainhead is probably my favorite book ever (maybe 1984 or Gatsby, but probably The Fountainhead). Atlas Shrugged is nice too.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald: Gatsby was one of the books that got me into writing and was huge inspiration for me when I wrote my book.
    Shakespeare: As a theatre major, it's impossible to not recognize and appreciate the absolute brilliance of Shakespeare. Hamlet, Macbeth, and Othello are probably his finest works (and some of the finest pieces of writing ever), but 12th Night and Midsummer are probably my favorites of his.
     
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  2. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    Aug 6, 2016
    People make fun of the cult around HST but he was really one of those generationally-talented writers. I'm actually reading Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail right now.
    9/26
     
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  3. an0nymous
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    Gabriel Garcia Marquez without a doubt.

    The way he perfectly captures the atmosphere of the environments in his books is absolutely astonishing. One Hundred Years of Solitude and Chronicles of a Death Foretold are must reads.
     
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  4. Juney Dark
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    Juney Dark Illness of Lost Opportunities

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    Hemingway
    Fitzgerald
    Jane Bowles
    Raymond Chandler
     
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  5. lil uzi vert stan
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    lil uzi vert stan

    Aug 6, 2016
    Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Traii is exceptional. id say it should be your blueprint but its influence is already everywhere

    Lol intuitive guys

    @Translucent salinger was another favorite in hs. Reading "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters" after seeing Royal Tenenbaums was incredible. Somewhere Online there's a bootleg video of my friends and I shooting a play of
    "Just Before the War with the Eskimos"
     
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  6. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

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    You should read the book he wrote on the h---'s Angels, I read it last summer and it's fascinating.

    I honestly don't follow specific authors as much as I should cuz I just kinda read whatever, but I'm a big fan of Cormac McCarthy. The Road and No Country For Old Men are amazing obviously. Blood Meridian is a masterpiece.
     
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  7. Translucent
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    Translucent I just slapped Dre

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    I can still read Catcher In The Rye cover to cover and still enjoy it as much as I did in hs.

    Oh I forgot to mention 1984
     
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    Thanks, my dad actually reccomended that to me saying its one of the best booke he ever read, will def check it out next time i feel like reading again
     
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  9. M Solo
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    M Solo Fresh Outta London

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    Robert Greene.
     
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    Alchemist34 DO MY HEAD

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    Paul Thompson
     
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  11. blair
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    blair

    Aug 7, 2016
    Heard he has a new book coming out soon, you should check it out
     
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  12. Jay Zeus
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    Jay Zeus I am the god-favored weed strain

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    Ernest Hemingway is a'ight.
     
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  13. Lamont
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    Lamont

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    Been reading a lot of Dean Koontz, Stephen King, and Ray Bradbury lately. Good stuff.
     
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    Came to post this. IT is one of the most fascinating novels that I have read in years
     
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    Kafka
     
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    Stephen King - Under the Dome, Misery, IT
    Patrick Rothfuss - name of the wind
    GRRM - a game of thrones, a storm of swords
    Robert Greene - 48 laws of power, art of seduction
    Tom Clancy - hunt for red October
    Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
     
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    King of Kings Who Dey

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    Marshall Mathers
     
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  18. M Solo
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    M Solo Fresh Outta London

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    It's about The Blueprint? Serious question... I haven't been paying much attention to the forum.
     
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  19. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    Aug 12, 2016
    Oh you didn't miss anything on that front--haven't announced anything on here. Book that comes out 9/26 is not the BP one, just a collection.
     
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  20. M Solo
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    M Solo Fresh Outta London

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    A book about BP from you needs to happen bro. Either way make a thread when the book is released to remind us. I'll be picking it up for sure.
     
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