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Anonymous Sun Jun 26 22:32:12 2011 No.1880901 [Reply] [Original]

Are there any authors whose complete published works are all worth reading? Not necessarily someone who struck gold every time they put pen to paper, but who never had a lackluster work, even when compared to themselves?

>>	Stradlater !!iwUBihX3yR3 Sun Jun 26 22:34:12 2011 No.1880905 Somerset Maugham Actually nobody is perfect

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 26 22:35:12 2011 No.1880907 Joyce. Although I didn't finish Finnegan's Wake, from what I read I think it's worth reading.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 26 22:36:12 2011 No.1880911 Tao Lin

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 26 22:45:12 2011 No.1880924 >who never had a lackluster work, even when compared to themselves? No. I really doubt there is an author out there with a long career that hasn't improved tremendously from novel to novel.

>>	Okay,IIsNowGargamel Sun Jun 26 22:45:12 2011 No.1880927 Hemingway and Maugham

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>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 00:25:12 2011 No.1881226 J. K. Rowling.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 00:31:12 2011 No.1881250 PHILIP K DICK

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 00:33:12 2011 No.1881258 >>1881250 I concur wholeheartedly

Anonymous Mon Jun 27 00:36:12 2011 No.1881279

>>1880907
I'm on the same boat as this guy.

Also:
Shakespeare
Sophocles
Aeschylus
Christopher Moore (if you share his sense of humor)
George Eliot
Oscar Wilde
Franz Kafka
Saki
J. D. Salinger [I don't want to quarrel with anyone. I don't love him, but I think his four books are worth going through.]
David Foster Wallace
Christopher Marlowe

I got The Complete Isaac Babel recently, but I haven't read through it yet.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 00:38:12 2011 No.1881288 Lu Xun Yasunari Kawabata

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 01:04:12 2011 No.1881361 Oscar Wilde

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 01:05:12 2011 No.1881364 Sylvia Plath trollface.jpg

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 01:13:12 2011 No.1881381 >>1881364 Fuck your trollface. Shit's true.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 01:14:12 2011 No.1881384 >>1881381 I know it's true, however, I included the trollface as she only wrote one novel.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 01:18:12 2011 No.1881392 >>1881384 She did write poetry you know...

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 01:20:12 2011 No.1881398 Montaigne

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 01:26:12 2011 No.1881404 >>1881392 No shit stranger!

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 01:28:12 2011 No.1881410 File: 114 KB, 360x447, KV.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Even his essays.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 01:28:12 2011 No.1881413 >>1880929 And people say Joyce is confusing. Fuck this guy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 02:44:12 2011 No.1881569 >>1881410 I second this motion

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 02:48:12 2011 No.1881579 >>1881410 I've read Slaughter House and Rosewater. Breakfast of Champions has Kilgore Trout and Eliot Rosewater in it. Are characters from other books in Breakfast? Which books should I read before Breakfast. Sorry for (sort of) off topic.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 09:57:12 2011 No.1882068 Bumping to get a different timezone's opinion.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 10:29:12 2011 No.1882102 kurt vonnegut

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 10:39:12 2011 No.1882125 terry pratchett

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 27 11:01:12 2011 No.1882150 Joseph Conrad

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