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Your three favorite authors:
>Vonnegut
>Camus
>Steinbeck

>> No.4096658

>Kerouac
>Hemingway
>Bukowski

>> No.4096663

>>4096651
>Milton
>Shakespeare
>T S Eliot

>> No.4096671

>Faulkner
>Nabokov
>Dostoyevsky

>> No.4096700

>>4096651
>Ende
>Moers
>Preussler

>> No.4096706

>>4096671
>Dostoyevsky

He asked who your favorite author was, not your favorite translator.

>> No.4096713

Nikolai Gogol
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Ray Bradbury

>> No.4096718

>Homer
>Proust
>Goethe

>> No.4096728

>>4096663
why eliot?

>> No.4096731

>>4096706
who is he translating?

>> No.4096732

>tolstoj
>hugo
>milton or dumas father

>> No.4096734

>>4096731
Unless you're reading him in Russian, you are reading the work of a translator. And there are tons of different translators for the Russian classics.

>> No.4096743

Sam Beckett
John Williams
Wallace Stevens

>> No.4096750

>>4096734
the translator is the person who translates the work: e.g pervear. not dostoevsky
if you're going to be an autist about this, do it right kid

>> No.4096768

>Dostoevsky
>Tolstoy
>Woolf

>> No.4096790

>Joyce
>Pynchon
>Rilke

>> No.4096802

>Lord Byron
>Richard Yates
>Shakespeare

>> No.4096804

>Kerouac
>Bukowski
>Shakespeare

>> No.4096806

>>4096658
>>4096658
fuck somebody already stole my joke. I guess that's that.

>> No.4096829

Is it weird that every time I see the name Bukowski, I just want to say Bukakke instead?

>> No.4096895

>DFW
>Kafka
>Wilde

>> No.4096941

>Dostoevsky
>Shakespeare
>McCarthy

>> No.4096969

>Céline
>Céline
>Céline

>> No.4096973

f. scott fitzgerald
evelyn waugh
d.h. lawrence

>> No.4096997

>>4096651
>>4096658
>>4096700
>>4096895
>>4096969
>>4096973
Please leave

>> No.4097029

Phillip K Dick
Vladimir Nabokov
????

>> No.4097033

>>4096997
No, you can't make me maman

>> No.4097035

Ballard
Faulkner
Rulfo

>> No.4097165

right now probably
>Robertson Davies
>Saul Bellow (although lately been dissapointed with the last couple I read)
>John Steinbeck

I would also mention Kosinski simply for The Painted Bird but I don't particularly care for the other work of his that I've read.

also shout out to Stanislaw Lem and Dorothy Allison despite only having read one book by each.

>> No.4097170

>>4096806
what's the joke

>> No.4097176

>Schulz
>Kleist
>Novalis

>> No.4097195
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4097195

Sasha Grey
Sasha Grey
Sasha Grey

>> No.4097242

Twain
Melville
Clarke

>> No.4097246

>>4097195
gotta admit she's a pretty cool girl.

>> No.4097350

Writer to impress /lit/
Writer to impress /lit/
Writer to impress /lit/

>> No.4097358

>>4097350
projection
insecurity
mad

>> No.4097363

>>4096651

>Hemingway
>Salinger
>Melville

>> No.4097381

>Tolkien
>McCarthy
>Faulkner

>> No.4097432

>>4096651
I'll give you five
Dylon
Dylon
Dylon
Dylon
Dylon

>> No.4097457

>>4097432
bob dylon?

>> No.4097466

>Virginia Woolf
>W.G Sebald
>Samuel Beckett

>> No.4097472

>>4096651

>Huxley
>Vonnegut
>P.K. Dick

>> No.4097507
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4097507

Dostoyevsky
Tolkien
Shakespeare

>> No.4097595

>>4097432
Because he writes hot fire.

>> No.4097601

Daumal
Shestov
Pushkin

>> No.4097617

> Magnus Mills
> Timothy Findley
> EM Forster

>> No.4097624

Too much Dostoevsky, not enough Turgenev.

>> No.4097649

mccarthy
ondaatje
pynchon

>> No.4097657

Dostoevsky
Kafka
Camus

>> No.4097660

>>4097657
L O L

>> No.4097664

>Vonnegut
>Bukowski
>Hemmingway

>> No.4097670

>>4097664
MONSTER L O L

>> No.4097673

>>4097660
>>4097670
so who are your favorites

>> No.4097680

>>4097670
Please elaborate: what exactly is wrong with my personal preference? You pretentious, judgmental cretin?

>> No.4097682

>>4097680
I think you have good taste, anon

>> No.4097686

>>4097673
Nabokov
Dostoyevsky
Tolstoy

>>4097680
>what exactly is wrong with my personal preference?
It's embarrassing

>> No.4097685

>>4097664
>>4096658
>>4097657
I remember when I was a sophomore in high school

>> No.4097683

>>4097673
>>4097680

Don't bother guys, he's just being a dick.

>> No.4097696

>>4096651
Lichtenberg
Grass
Kafka

>> No.4097710

>>4097696
Love The Tin Drum, good pick

>> No.4097717

>>4097686
>Reading translated authors
>Insulting others taste
Top Fucking Lel

>> No.4097727

>>4097717
как не вы знаете, я русский

>> No.4097767

>>4096651
pincher's burrows dicks

>> No.4097789

>>4097727
#krtew
#shots fired
#hoooooleeeeeeshiiiiiiiiit

>> No.4097830

>>4097686
What's embarrassing is that you feel intellectually superior simply because of which authors you prefer. I also enjoy the authors you posted, but I don't feel that it somehow makes me a better/more intelligent individual because I happen to prefer Lolita over Ham on Rye, or vice versa. Stop judging people on what differences you might have with them, rather you should maybe find some common ground? We both clearly enjoy literature so why not make some polite recommendations instead of trumpeting some inane view of superiority from your cold, lonely mountain.

>> No.4097839

>>4097830
lmao

>> No.4097845

>Lovecraft
>Poe
>Hodgson

>> No.4097850

Vonnegut
Murakami
Asimov

>> No.4097883

>>4097830
why even regard subjectivity on 4chan youre always going to be wrong

>> No.4097891

Homer
Marlowe
Conrad

>> No.4097896

>Murakami
>Grossman
>Mitchell

>> No.4097899

George R.R. Martin
Orson Scott Card
Edgar Rice Burroughs

>> No.4097925

dfw
kundera
henry miller

>> No.4098034

>>4096728
I like his sensibilities

>> No.4098039

>>4097896
>Grossman
Vasily or David? (please don't say Lev)

>> No.4098078

>Cormac McCarthy
>George R.R. Martin
>Khalled Hossini

>> No.4098083

such boring choices in this thread I hope you're all trolling by picking them

>> No.4098154

Borges
Calvino
VS Naipaul

>> No.4098177

>>4098083
And what are you three choices, faggot?

>> No.4098203
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4098203

>J.M. Coetzee
>Ismail Kadare
>Michael Ondaatje

honorable mentions to Hem Hem, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner

>> No.4098209

Akutagawa
Nietzsche
Dostoevsky

>> No.4098394

>>4096895
Really want to get into DFW. Starting points? I know infinite Jest is his best but I want to make sure I like him before reading a 1000 page book by him.

>> No.4098472

>>4098394
I honestly started by reading by some of his essays. Specifically, his essay on Kafka's sense of humor, the first couple in Consider the Lobster, and all of A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. The first of his fiction that I read was The Broom of the System. From there, I just went in chronological order. The only thing to note is that his first short story collection, Girl with Curious Hair, is really hit or miss. He tries a lot of things. When he's successful, it's fucking amazing. When he fumbles, it's pretty fucking boring (and his short stories tend to be longer than you might think... I hardly ever finished any in one sitting).

>> No.4098483

>Dostoevsky
>Faulkner
though honestly the only thing I've ever finished by him is S&F
>Bukowski

>> No.4098487

>>4098472

>A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

These are great. The one about cruise ships is probably my favorite.

>>4098394
Listen to the anon I quoted above: his nonfiction is gold. I honestly don't know why he's known for his novels instead of his work as an essayist.

>> No.4098636

HST
Buk
William Burroughs

>> No.4098843

Thomas Pynchon
J.D. Salinger
Hunter S. Thompson