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Who's your favourite writer?

  • 25-04-2014 08:48PM
    #1
    Vito Corleone
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    I've always been a big fan of Charles Bukowski, he's somewhat of an idol of mine. I actually wanted the username Henry Chinaski but it was taken. :o I'm also a big fan of Orwell, Nietzsche and the lesser none Harmony Korine.

    Who's your favourite writer?


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  • #2
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Right she said and she never wrote, but when she wrote she wrote pages.

    Quote by some one, memory gone blank.


  • #3
    KingOfFairview
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,388 ✭✭✭KingOfFairview


    Makes me sound like a low-brow ****pig, but Stephen King by a mile.


  • #4
    R P McMurphy
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    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    Right she said and she never wrote, but when she wrote she wrote pages.

    Quote by some one, memory gone blank.

    Jessica Fletcher


  • #5
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    John Grisham


  • #6
    KeithM89
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    padraiggg.


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  • #7
    syklops
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    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    Right she said and she never wrote, but when she wrote she wrote pages.

    Quote by some one, memory gone blank.

    Jessica Fletcher?


  • #8
    pablomakaveli
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    Has to be George RR Martin for me. Never been hooked into a series of book like i was with the Song of Ice and Fire series. He's created an amazing rich amazing world inhabited by great complex characters. Only bad thing about him is he takes his bloody time with writing them.:p


  • #9
    robertxxx
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    W.B. yeats


  • #10
    Lisbeth Salander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40 ✭Lisbeth Salander


    Karin Slaughter, favourite book from her has to be Genesis.


  • #11
    sadie06
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    Went through a massive Margaret Atwood phase, followed by a John Irving phase. They are the two authors I can say I have read most often, but I think James Joyce is word for word my favourite writer.


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  • #12
    Legs.Eleven
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    I really like Colm Tóibín.


  • #13
    Artful_Badger
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    I think they all have lovely bottoms.

    Dont really have a favourite writer or book tbh.


  • #14
    LizzieJones
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    Jane Austen. There is no one else. :)


  • #15
    Dirty Dingus McGee
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    Raymond Chandler.There are so many writers I love but his writing is incredible in particular his dialogue.


  • #16
    The One Doctor
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    There's no one favorite, they all have their moments. George Orwell, Ernest K Gann, Sue Townsend, Jasper Fforde, Peter Biddlecombe, Harry Harrison, Robert Rankin, Terry Pratchett, Tom Holt... the list goes on and on and they're all my favorite.


  • #17
    dark crystal
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    John Steinbeck.


  • #18
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Richard Brautigan.

    Just at the moment, it being all delicate Springtime, mind. Sometimes I prefer Italo Calvino, or Ismail Kadare, and one time I woke up all sore with Tolstoy in my bed. I'm no good at favourites.


  • #19
    orchidsrpretty
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    I have quite a few writers that I follow, John Irvine, Stephen king, Neil Gaiman, Niall Ferguson to name a few. I'd say Irvine Welsh is probably my favourite as I love reading books in a excellent Glaswegian accent, which all of his book have a tendency to make you do. I'm usually ****e at accents so this is particularly appealing to me. Oh and the stories are good too.


  • #20
    Right Turn Clyde
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    Dostoevsky is untouchable. I re-read The Brothers Karamazov recently and it's just a monumental achievement. I'ver never experienced anything else like it.

    I also love most of Charles Bukowski's stuff. He has that 'everyman' quality. I can almost imagine being able to write like that, or at least knowing someone that could write like that. It feels like it's within touching distance. It's possible.

    But Dostoevsky is a different story. It doesn't seem possible. I can no more imagine myself writing The Brothers Karamazov than I can imagine myself painting The Massacre of the Innnocents.


  • #21
    Ted_YNWA
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    Lisbeth Salander wrote: »
    Karin Slaughter, favourite book from her has to be Genesis.

    Would have thought it would have been Stieg Larrson going by your name.


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  • #22
    pampootie
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    I love Donna Tartt. And Roald Dahl


  • #23
    Vito Corleone
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    Right Turn Clyde wrote: »
    Dostoevsky is untouchable. I re-read The Brothers Karamazov recently and it's just a monumental achievement. I'ver never experienced anything else like it.

    I also love most of Charles Bukowski's stuff. He has that 'everyman' quality. I can almost imagine being able to write like that, or at least knowing someone that could write like that. It feels like it's within touching distance. It's possible.

    But Dostoevsky is a different story. It doesn't seem possible. I can no more imagine myself writing The Brothers Karamazov than I can imagine myself painting The Massacre of the Innnocents.

    I like Dostoevsky as well but need to find more time to read his work.


  • #24
    crockholm
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    P.J. O'Rourke, even though he's gone off the boil a bit lately. Bill Bryson for something to read on hols.


  • #25
    Hotale.com
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    pablomakaveli wrote: »
    Has to be George RR Martin for me. Never been hooked into a series of book like i was with the Song of Ice and Fire series. He's created an amazing rich amazing world inhabited by great complex characters. Only bad thing about him is he takes his bloody time with writing them.:p

    First 4 were so good, ADWD was brutal imo (besides Bran); might be better on a reread though.


  • #26
    Stavros Murphy
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    William Faulkner. It took me a while to appreciate that, but I got there eventually. Grisham for when I just want a story, well told.


  • #27
    GalwayGuy2
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    Has to be George RR Martin for me. Never been hooked into a series of book like i was with the Song of Ice and Fire series. He's created an amazing rich amazing world inhabited by great complex characters. Only bad thing about him is he takes his bloody time with writing them.

    I wonder will he be thought in future university courses?

    There is a snobbiness towards fantasy, but he has hit on some weird social phase that the west is going through.

    EDIT:

    You know, I've only seen his anime, but Gen Urobuchi is truly an incredibly writer.


  • #28
    Paco Rodriguez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 698 ✭✭✭Paco Rodriguez


    Sweden. Especially John Ajvide Lindqvist.

    Let The Right One In
    Harbour
    Little Star
    Handling The Undead


  • #29
    131spanner
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    Peig Sayers. Inspiring...


  • #30
    homemadecider
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    Paul Theroux, father of documentary-maker Louis Theroux. Love love love his writing.


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  • #31
    connected1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 127 ✭✭connected1


    Tolstoy. His insight into the human condition is profound and so deceptively simple. But I only read War and Peace after I got a Kindle. The book weighs a ton!


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