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09-06-2005, 03:20 PM
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Favorite Writers
I'm interested in seeing who your favorite authors, poets, etc. are...
Lately I've really had this thing for T.S. Elliot, some of his works really inspire me. I have many different favorite authors, mostly all of the classics (need I list them?), but I still enjoy the fun books. Dean Koontz has some great books out there, and I just got finished reading Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse. If you haven't read it, I HIGHLY recommend it.
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09-06-2005, 03:24 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (just sarted reading The Devils), The Marquis De Sade, H.P. Lovecraft, Aleister Crowley...
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09-06-2005, 05:02 PM
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Aleister Crowley is great...have you read anything by Israel Regardie or any other members of the GD?
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09-06-2005, 06:38 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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Favourite writers
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Originally Posted by Metatron
Aleister Crowley is great...have you read anything by Israel Regardie or any other members of the GD?
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Thomas Mann
Heinrich von Kleist
Marquis de Sade
Harold Pinter
Edward Albee
ETA Hoffmann
James Joyce
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe
Last edited by Faustus; 09-06-2005 at 06:39 PM.
Reason: Spelling mistake
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09-06-2005, 06:55 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
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I like H. P. Lovecraft, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, and umm...I can't seem to think of anymore. Perhaps J. R. R. Tolkien too.
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09-06-2005, 06:56 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
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Oh yeah. George Orwell!
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09-06-2005, 07:47 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: 42.5
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Jack London, Lewis Carroll, Ray Bradbury (though, From The Dust Returned really sucked), Shakespeare, and ah... that's about all I can think of right now.
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09-06-2005, 08:26 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: In the books I read.
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Stephen King.
As for poets it would have to be Edgar Allan Poe.
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09-06-2005, 08:44 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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Err.. damnit. I forgot A Bostonian. I can't quite beleive it.
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09-06-2005, 11:33 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Nor Cal
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Ernest Hemmingway sucks. He sucks big giant sweaty hairy cheesy salty balls. He sucks so much balls that if they had a ball sucking contest they would declare him the winner without even watching the other contestants. He writes worse than Flirting With Suicide. It's a fucking pathetic joke that english teachers hold him up as a great writer. He's just an over rated piece of shit that shouldn't even have his name remembered.
Oh right, favorite. That's my least favorite.
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09-07-2005, 03:03 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Austria
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Dostoevski, poe, kafka, leonidov(does anyone know this author?), calvino, marquez, the brothers strugatskie(are there any english traslations, does anyone know?), ... and alot of others that I can't recall.
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09-07-2005, 12:55 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
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Ivan Leonidov, the architect?
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09-08-2005, 03:38 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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Myself........as a writer.
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09-09-2005, 03:33 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Austria
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Metatron
Ivan Leonidov, the architect?
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uhhhhh...no. Unless that guy was an architect as well as an author...which I doubt he was. The Leonidov I was talking about is a Russian author who wrote several things that are kind of in Kafka's style. They are really good, but I don't know if any have been translated into other languages.
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09-09-2005, 11:16 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Metatron
Aleister Crowley is great...have you read anything by Israel Regardie or any other members of the GD?
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Can't say that I have ... I probably will sooner or later though.
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09-09-2005, 12:47 PM
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Which books of his have you read?
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09-09-2005, 01:56 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Metatron
Which books of his have you read?
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The Confessions of Aleister Crowley
The Book of The Law
The Book of Lies
Moonchild
Diary of a Drug Fiend
Magick
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09-09-2005, 01:57 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
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The brothers Grimm, anyone?
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09-09-2005, 07:56 PM
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You read all of 'Magick'? Like pounded through all 900 pages of it...?
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09-10-2005, 08:06 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Metatron
You read all of 'Magick'? Like pounded through all 900 pages of it...?
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Yes. And 'Confessions', that's a good 900 pages too. They left my head spinning though.
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09-10-2005, 08:26 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Spazik
Ernest Hemmingway sucks. He sucks big giant sweaty hairy cheesy salty balls. He sucks so much balls that if they had a ball sucking contest they would declare him the winner without even watching the other contestants.
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hahahahahahahahahaha.....
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09-10-2005, 11:10 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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Mervyn Peake; Poppy Brite; Kurt Vonnegut; Philip Pullman
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09-11-2005, 12:17 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: California
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Yeats, Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Lovecraft, Asimov..god so many. Favorite poet is Barbauld though.
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09-12-2005, 01:52 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
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I suspect this makes me a loser but I almost always enjoy a good Stephen King book. I started reading him in the fourth grade and have off and on ever since. The last book he worked on that I read was The Talisman, a collaboration with Peter Straub. I like Straub too, read The Throat.
Kurt Vonnegut just fucking owns every other author who ever lived.
I also like Poe, especially his satire and other writing that isn't as well known because it isn't horror.
And Chuck Palahniuk.
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09-13-2005, 03:31 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
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Quote:
Originally Posted by soggypicklemuncher
I suspect this makes me a loser but I almost always enjoy a good Stephen King book.
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I know a lot of people who enjoy King. I never really got that into his books, personally, but they make great films.
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