Who's your favorite author?

[SuspectCorner]

Lately I've been getting a big kick out of Christopher Moore. Pretty inventive and funny stuff.

 

[SuspectCorner]

Dean Koontz

I thought "Odd Thomas" was pretty cool. Now I see it's a trilogy - I definitely want to pick up Odd's story with the second book. I read "The Husband" about a month ago. Koontz is "pageturner" royalty.

 

[Yeagermeister]

L. Ron Hubbard

 

[Boom]

I thought "Odd Thomas" was pretty cool. Now I see it's a trilogy - I definitely want to pick up Odd's story with the second book. I read "The Husband" about a month ago. Koontz is "pageturner" royalty.

Actually "Odd Hours" is out (the 4th Odd book).

 

[SuspectCorner]

Actually "Odd Hours" is out (the 4th Odd book).

Thanks for the heads up. I better pick up the pace. Jeez life just flies by nowadays. :geezer:

 

[TwoCentPlain]

Victor Hugo.

 

[Danny White]

I was an English Lit major in college, so my tastes run a little more classical... although I do enjoy modern fiction as well. I've just started reading some Cormac McCarthy and really enjoy it.

By far, my favorite author is Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Brothers Karamazov is an absolute masterpiece from which you could keep getting something new and special even if you read it a hundred times. I try to read it once a year and have done so for about the past 10 years. It's just an amazing work, and if you've never read it, I encourage you to do so.

I concentrated on Medieval and Renaissance literature in college and thus really enjoy Chaucer and Shakespeare.

American authors I enjoy include Hemingway (For Whom the Bell Tolls is fantastic), Faulkner, and Steinbeck.

 

[Hostile]

I was an English Lit major in college, so my tastes run a little more classical... although I do enjoy modern fiction as well. I've just started reading some Cormac McCarthy and really enjoy it.

By far, my favorite author is Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Brothers Karamazov is an absolute masterpiece from which you could keep getting something new and special even if you read it a hundred times. I try to read it once a year and have done so for about the past 10 years. It's just an amazing work, and if you've never read it, I encourage you to do so.

I concentrated on Medieval and Renaissance literature in college and thus really enjoy Chaucer and Shakespeare.

American authors I enjoy include Hemingway (For Whom the Bell Tolls is fantastic), Faulkner, and Steinbeck.

I went to the bookstore last night and was looking for "No Country for Old Men" and "Blood Meridian." They were out of both. I've read "Blood Meridian," but not "No Country." Very intense writer.

 

[Ben_n_austin]

Too many to list or name. I can thank my English professor, Jerome Bump, for making me read a little bit of EVERYTHING !

Charles Darwin, Harriet Ritvo, Rudyard Kipling, Anna Sewell, Lewis Caroll, Ernest Hemingway, John Stuart Mill, J. Frank Dobie, Sidney Mintz, Karl Marx, Gandhi, Gerard Manly Hopkins, Tennyson, Don Graham

 

[Ben_n_austin]

L. Ron Hubbard

I caste you to scientology hell!!!!

 

[Khartun]

Easily Tolkien

also, Brian Lumley, Barbara Hambly, Jordan, King, Koontz

 

[Hostile]

Too many to list or name. I can thank my English professor, Jerome Bump, for making me read a little bit of EVERYTHING !

Charles Darwin, Harriet Ritvo, Rudyard Kipling, Anna Sewell, Lewis Caroll, Ernest Hemingway, John Stuart Mill, J. Frank Dobie, Sidney Mintz, Karl Marx, Gandhi, Gerard Manly Hopkins, Tennyson, Don Graham

No freaking way. I read that as a teen and no one I have ever talked to has heard of it.

 

[Yeagermeister]

I caste you to scientology hell!!!!

Meet you there

 

[ScipioCowboy]

No freaking way. I read that as a teen and no one I have ever talked to has heard of it.

Which J. Frank Dobie work did you read, Hostile? The Ben Lilly Legend?

 

[ScipioCowboy]

I was an English Lit major in college, so my tastes run a little more classical... although I do enjoy modern fiction as well. I've just started reading some Cormac McCarthy and really enjoy it.

By far, my favorite author is Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Brothers Karamazov is an absolute masterpiece from which you could keep getting something new and special even if you read it a hundred times. I try to read it once a year and have done so for about the past 10 years. It's just an amazing work, and if you've never read it, I encourage you to do so.

I concentrated on Medieval and Renaissance literature in college and thus really enjoy Chaucer and Shakespeare.

American authors I enjoy include Hemingway (For Whom the Bell Tolls is fantastic), Faulkner, and Steinbeck.

Legendary authors, no question. However, of all the Modernist writers, my favorite is John Dos Passos. I loved Manhattan Transfer, which is probably my favorite non-Nabokovian work of fiction.

From the Renaissance eras, I was really engaged by Jon Donne and Richard Lovelace.

 

[Danny White]

Legendary authors, no question. However, of all the Modernist writers, my favorite is John Dos Passos. I loved Manhattan Transfer, which is probably my favorite non-Nabokovian work of fiction.

From the Renaissance eras, I was really engaged by Jon Donne and Richard Lovelace.

Donne deserves credit for writing the horniest poem ever that involves an insect:

Mark but this flea, and mark in this,
How little that which thou deniest me is ;
It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee,
And in this flea our two bloods mingled be.
Thou know'st that this cannot be said
A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead ;
Yet this enjoys before it woo,
And pamper'd swells with one blood made of two ;
And this, alas ! is more than we would do.

O stay, three lives in one flea spare,
Where we almost, yea, more than married are.
This flea is you and I, and this
Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is.
Though parents grudge, and you, we're met,
And cloister'd in these living walls of jet.
Though use make you apt to kill me,
Let not to that self-murder added be,
And sacrilege, three sins in killing three.

Cruel and sudden, hast thou since
Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence?
Wherein could this flea guilty be,
Except in that drop which it suck'd from thee?
Yet thou triumph'st, and say'st that thou
Find'st not thyself nor me the weaker now.
'Tis true ; then learn how false fears be ;
Just so much honour, when thou yield'st to me,
Will waste, as this flea's death took life from thee.

 

[ScipioCowboy]

Donne deserves credit for writing the horniest poem ever that involves an insect:

Mark but this flea, and mark in this,
How little that which thou deniest me is ;
It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee,
And in this flea our two bloods mingled be.
Thou know'st that this cannot be said
A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead ;
Yet this enjoys before it woo,
And pamper'd swells with one blood made of two ;
And this, alas ! is more than we would do.

O stay, three lives in one flea spare,
Where we almost, yea, more than married are.
This flea is you and I, and this
Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is.
Though parents grudge, and you, we're met,
And cloister'd in these living walls of jet.
Though use make you apt to kill me,
Let not to that self-murder added be,
And sacrilege, three sins in killing three.

Cruel and sudden, hast thou since
Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence?
Wherein could this flea guilty be,
Except in that drop which it suck'd from thee?
Yet thou triumph'st, and say'st that thou
Find'st not thyself nor me the weaker now.
'Tis true ; then learn how false fears be ;
Just so much honour, when thou yield'st to me,
Will waste, as this flea's death took life from thee.

The great irony of Donne is that many of his poems were simultaneously sexual and religious, such as Pound My Heart, Oh Three Person God. Donne's poems can often make a person cringe.

 

[Hostile]

Which J. Frank Dobie work did you read, Hostile? The Ben Lilly Legend?

Actually that is one of his that I have not read. I am trying to think of the name. Something about Open Range and Up the Trail From Texas were two that I liked. The Mustangs was my favorite though. I read 2 or 3 more, but don't remember them. I always wanted to go back and read all of his.

I even had a book called "Hoping You're the Same, J. Frank Dobie." It was kind of a tribute to him. I can't remember who wrote that.

 

[Ben_n_austin]

No freaking way. I read that as a teen and no one I have ever talked to has heard of it.

J. Frank Dobie is an author--one of the tremendous trio from UT. He wrote A LOT of Cowboy stories... The movie theatre at UT is named after him, there are statues of him everywhere. He was a literary God amongst the old school Cowboys of the hyper-masculine breed. He wrote a lot of western stories, including a pretty terrible piece called The Mustangs. I critiqued him pretty hard, because he was sort of an advocate for being, well, honest in your writing. He thought it was OK to talk about racist things, etc.. He called it writing about "lost minds" and "buried treasures".

But separate the racist crap, and he was pretty good... like Malcom X's speeches when you take out the so-called violent threats.

If you haven't read him, you should--being that you like Westerns. He's a classic Western author for sure.

 

[Ben_n_austin]

Donne deserves credit for writing the horniest poem ever that involves an insect:

Mark but this flea, and mark in this,
How little that which thou deniest me is ;
It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee,
And in this flea our two bloods mingled be.
Thou know'st that this cannot be said
A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead ;
Yet this enjoys before it woo,
And pamper'd swells with one blood made of two ;
And this, alas ! is more than we would do.

O stay, three lives in one flea spare,
Where we almost, yea, more than married are.
This flea is you and I, and this
Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is.
Though parents grudge, and you, we're met,
And cloister'd in these living walls of jet.
Though use make you apt to kill me,
Let not to that self-murder added be,
And sacrilege, three sins in killing three.

Cruel and sudden, hast thou since
Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence?
Wherein could this flea guilty be,
Except in that drop which it suck'd from thee?
Yet thou triumph'st, and say'st that thou
Find'st not thyself nor me the weaker now.
'Tis true ; then learn how false fears be ;
Just so much honour, when thou yield'st to me,
Will waste, as this flea's death took life from thee.

Oh, dude, you guys are making me think we should have a creative writing, book, literary section on the zone.

"Horny" as it may be, that is an awesome poem!