soupBDC Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 What author's got a style that keeps you in check and makes you go "could I be an author? fuck nope!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Mamerro Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 MATTHEW REILLY Seriously, I don't know why anybody even bothers to write after this came out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Module X Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 ^foreal? Dostoyevsky. You could have a PhD in psychology and still understand less about the mind than him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blamo123 Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Hunter S. Thompson, Bukowski, Jack Kerouac -who im reading these days they just inspire me in general... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
correct Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 kurt vonnegut, but i think its because im not as crazy as him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeweyVonGumpsteinAndTheWiz Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Module X Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 On that tip Homer is pretty dope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Haha super nintendo chalmers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecarwreck Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Proust Eliot Joyce Derrida Whitman Baudelaire Benjamin Delillo Bellow there's a ton... Not so much "I could never do that" intimidation as "holy fuck" awe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Mamerro Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 None of the above authors has ever written a car chase where the dude being followed blows up an aircraft carrier during said chase. Hacks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecarwreck Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Joyce did: "....and what run the over of yellow and snotgreen sea where Steven Hero landed. 'The keys' he says into long and long the sea, 'The keys left with all the insides and now the insides are left without.' Here the poor dogsbody lay, beneath the leftover tangle of steelrust and fire, over to the sea Steven Hero watched and watching saw the salt and holy shine of splitting metal...." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Mamerro Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Hmm. I guess that could be interpreted as such. How bout this, none of these authors have had the story's protagonist hijack a space shuttle in orbit, land it, then within the hour, get into a fist fight with a homicidal maniac and toss him into a pool of vicious Komodo dragons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecarwreck Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Well damn. We have a winner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VAJ Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 I'm a big fan of Dan Brown. He's my most recent obsession. Soon you will be reading my novels though. Just wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest R@ndomH3ro Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 I'm a big fan of Dan Brown. He's my most recent obsession. Soon you will be reading my novels though. Just wait. Are they about bad ass war heros deep in the shit! Named Sneak! If not then I dont want do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VAJ Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 I don't want do either Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOU Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Hesse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defibrillator Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 yeah agree with the peoples who said fyodor dostoevsky and kurt vonnegut and add franz kafka and j.d. salinger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VAJ Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 JD Salinger? Duh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PERMAFRIED_ Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 bret easton ellis is one of my favorite authors, but his style definitely does not make me think, "could i be an author? fuck no!" quite the opposite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PERMAFRIED_ Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 just don't read lunar park. way boring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defibrillator Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 JD Salinger? Duh. ??? also chuck in jean paul sartre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairy McGay Gay Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 as far as beat shit goes Kerouac is overrated in my opinion bukowski has a insane way of describing things and is real refreshing burroughs is pretty good, "junky" is a good read, "naked lunch" is "cut up style" so its kinda hard to make a story outta it, i found "queer" kinda boring.... oh yeah not beat but hunter thompson, is good, read "rum diaries" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PERMAFRIED_ Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 naked lunch was shit. i mean it was mildly interesting at first, but i have no desire to read someone's detailed and fragmented account of drug psychosis and entering an alternate reality. i can come up with that crap on my own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairy McGay Gay Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 i semi-agree, have you ever read anything else by him? if so that might change your view on the book, or not... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isum Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 I like Vonnegut a lot. Tom Wolfe is always a good read. Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test being my favorites. I've just cracked my first Kerouac novel and I'm not sure how I feel about it. For some more traditional fiction W.O. Mitchell and Jonathan Coe know whats up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PERMAFRIED_ Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 i semi-agree, have you ever read anything else by him? if so that might change your view on the book, or not... nope, i was kinda turned off after naked lunch. perhaps i'll give him a second try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairy McGay Gay Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 yeah, read junky, its a very coherent story line, i think you will be pleased Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEANCONNERY Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 Socrates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VAJ Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 I picked up the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe last night in hardback for $12. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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