Alright guys, time to figure out the best authors of all time. You get three votes, and I'll compile all of them into a list, hopefully it doesn't end memetastic like last time, I'll start
1. Dostoevsky
2. Tolstoy
3. Kafka
1. William Gass
2.John Hawkes
3. William Gaddis
>>7895679
>hopefully it doesn't end memetastic like last time, I'll start
>1. Dostoevsky 2. Tolstoy 3. Kafka
Go away
>>7895679
You've read Dostoevsky or Tolstoy in Russian? Or Kafka in german? No? Then you are not qualified to rank them as the best authors of all time.
>>7895681
>only my obscure, hardcore abstract authors are allowed to be good!
Vote or fuck off
>>7895679
>Ian Fleming
>George Lucas
>The guy who writes I-Spy
>>7895679
Genet
Celine
B. Schultz
1. Myself (obviously)
2. Wilbert Awdry
3. William Steig
>Whitman
>Wallace
>Joyce
>>7895685
Don't reply to me
>>7895684
>implying I don't
The thing is, even if I didn't, they're still better than the English authors I've read
>>7895718
No offense, but that means you don't read very good American literature.
>>7895725
Well, I've read Joyce, Pynchon, Huxley, Orwell, Dickens
Any you recommend?
Joyce
Wallace
McCarthy
>>7895679
This list is a horrible idea, but okay.
1. Flannery O'Connor
2. Gene Wolfe
3. JRR Tolkien
And now we let democracy take its course.
1. Shakespeare
2. Dante
3. Villon
Nabokov
Yates
Hesse
Herbert
Martin
Adams
Borges
Mishima
Céline
milton
shakespeare
fitzgerald
>>7895684
mimimimi
>>7895740
Huh, well, that explains your indifference for English authors--you've hardly read any. Here's a list of some authors and poets that I, the gassposter, enjoy: Coleridge, Sterne, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Milton, Johnson, Donne, Melville, Whitman, Ford, Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Crane, Stevens, Ashbery, Beckett, O'Brian, Faulkner, Woolf, Stein, Nabokov, Lowry, Hawkes, Gaddis, Gass (my favorite), Barth, Burroughs, Barthelme, McElroy, Orlovitz, McCarthy, Pynchon, Theroux, Coover, Federman, Sorrentino, Wolfe, Dixon, Mano, DeLillo, Vollmann, Fowles, James, and Markson.
Weir
Rowling
Tolkien
Wharton
Eliot
Pynchon
1. Ernst Hemingway
2. Jonathan Franzen
3. Haruki Murakami
1. Dostoevsky
2. Cervantes
3. Homer
Hunter
Macfarlane
Dostoevsky
Virginia Woolf
Dostoyevsky
Pushkin
>>7895679
Joseph McElroy
William Gass
Julian Rios
Joyce
Schmitt
Ballard
Shakespeare
Melville
Whitman
Dante
Borges
Martin
Stachura
Hłasko
Świetlicki
>>7895679
I'll vote for authors I want to see on the list, Dostoevsky will get tons of votes as is.
Flannery O'Connor
Gene Wolfe
Hilaire Belloc
Paulo Coelho
David Foster Wallace
Stephen King
Gaddis
Martin
McCarthy
>>7895679
Fuck off
Xao Cueqin
Edmund Spencer
Alexander Solschenizyn
William Gaddis
William Gass
Thomas Pynchon
>>7895679
1]Dickens
2]Dostoevsky
3]Patrick Modiano
>wallace
>joyce
>pynchon
We already did this, how fucking new are you? It was literally a few months ago.
>>7895679
1) Flaubert
2) Proust
3) Céline
La Fontaine is pretty close
>>7895957
That list is fucking awful though
>>7895970
Your face is awful.
>having a bunch of illiterate plebs pick 3 authors each
>expects to get a good list
lol
talked about this before, but similar to best works list, it'd be far better to find like 10-20 people who've read like 1k+ books to each rank 50/100 instead of 100 plebs ranking 3 each.
G.R.R. Martin
Brandon Sanderson
Stephen King
Lev Grossman
William R. Forstchen
Gene Wolfe
Lawrence sterne
Dostoevsky
1. Melville
2. Faulkner
3. Bulgakov
>>7895994
I'd be willing to participate in something like that if you set it up.
>>7895994
I've read around 300 and would like to pick at least 10 because 3 is too restrictive.
>>7895970
You literally named 3 of the top 12 as your top 3, OP. What the fuck do you expect is going to happen this time out? It's not like you're bringing a fresh perspective to the table. What do you think others are going to do?
>>7895811
Why don't you like Joyce?
Crawford
Colton
Burr
>>7896035
I love Joyce (though I think people focus on him way too much), but the anon has already read him.
Lao-tzu
Heller
Wakeham
1. William Faulkner
2. Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. Yasunari Kawabata
>>7896060
>people focus on him way too much
And deservedly, he earned every bit of praise poured on him in my opinion, and the discussions are far from finished. I thought you'd listed some authors he mentioned, but I misread.
Mitzman
Kronecker
Woods-powell
>>7896070
I don't mean he doesn't deserve it; I mean people--especially people here--read him and act like they're done with literature, like everything else is schlock in comparison, which is absolutely untrue.
And I thought I was a pleb.
>>7896097
>people here--read him and act like they're done with literature
>implying people here actually read joyce
>implying they don't just shitpost/meme about him, or glaze their eyes over the words and consider him read
>>7896101
That's Marc he's new
1. Thomas Pynchon
2. William Gaddis
3. William Faulkner
>>7896101
That a problem too: people here don't read.
Kierkegaard
Pessoa
Bernhard
>>7895679
Joyce
Goethe
Thucydides
>>7895957
It's 2016 now
William Gass
Gustave Flaubert
Henry James
Jk Rowling
GRRM
Nicolas Sparks
Hemingway
Henry Miller
Charles Bukowski
>>7895888
Is that you tomek?
1. Pynchon
2. Kafka
3. Faulkner
>>7895811
I read one of Gass's books "The Tunnel"...wasn't great desu.
1. Earnest Hemingway
2. Tao Lin
3. Joy Williams
>>7896825
To each his own, anon.
richard yates
philip k dick
elmore leonard
Shakespeare
Baudelaire
Faulkner
>>7895679
skakespere
marx
melville
C. J. Cherryh
Isaac Asimov
Daniel Defoe
John Hawkes
Alexander Theroux
Joseph McElroy
>>7895679
1. Wallace
2. Borges
3. Vollman
Who I think is best:
Shakespeare
Proust
Faulkner
Who I like most-:
Faulkner
Proust
Woolf
>>7895679
Homer
Dante
Shakespeare
Cervantes
Flaubert
Tolstoy
Dostoyevsky
Proust
Joyce
Nabokov
Harris
Harris
Harris
>>7897370
>tfw anon cant count to 3
Sam Harris
Sam Harris
Sam Harris
>>7897374
Seconding this.
>>7895679
Pynchon
Delillo
Wallace
>>7897376
Well, that's what the final top 10 should look like in an ideal world.
In reality, I'm sure /lit/'s list will include DFW and Isaac Asimov or some shit.
>>7896531
Good choice, chum.
1. Thomas Pynchon
2. Vladimir Nabokov
3. Ursula Le Guin
>>7895679
in chronological order:
* Dostoyevsky
* Borges
* Lem
Is this the official anon poller?
1 Tolstoy
2 Shakespeare
3 Proust
H. P. Lovecraft
Edgar Allan Poe
Colin Meloy
1. McEwan
2. Davies
3. Bellow
1. John Green
2. Tao Lin
3. Mira Gonzalez
>>7896497
Then why don't we wait until October this year so there's a whole damn year between the two?
Jesus fuck, this thread is full of newfags. I thought people were trolling when they voted in pic related, but it must be true.
Either /lit/ has great taste in modern American poetry or the DFW meme's going to round out the top 5 again.
>>7895679
So is this shit happening or not OP?
>>7895957
>53: Alan Moore
Threw up a little in my mouth desu.
Mishima
Lovecraft
CS Lewis
I gotta vote for my bois
>>7895957
HOW THE FUCK IS CAMUS, FUCKING CAMUS, IN THE TOP 10??? OVER THE LIKES OF TOLSTOY, PROUST ETC
HOW THE FUCK IS MURAKAMI OVER MISHIMA
HOW THE FUCK IS STEPHEN KING EVEN ON THE LIST
>>7895679
Shakespeare
Joyce
Milton
DFW
Proust
Joyce
>>7895957
I only see white males.
>>7899179
Is that supposed to be an issue? White males are the ones who has done most for civilization and society.
>>7899193
>implying James Baldwin and Toni Morrison aren't better writers than fucking Bret Easton Ellis, Stephen King, George R.R. Martin, Ray Bradbury, etc.
it's just...an indefensible position
>>7899179
I see a black guy, several women, Asians, Hispanics.
Dostoevsky
>>7899193
you mean they're the ones recognised the most
Proust
Aeschylus
Virgil
Shakespeare
Arno Schmidt
D. Keith Mano
William Gass
WE'VE DONE THIS SHIT A MILLION TIMES ALREADY
HOW MANY FUCKING MEME LISTS AND CHARTS DO WE FUCKING NEED
>>7895679
1. Hermann Hesse
2. Jules Verne
3.Robert E. Howard
true patriche as you can see :^)
Kerouac
Delillo
Thompson
1. Barth
2. Dallas Fort-Worth
3. Idk, Marquez?
>>7900538
this
>>7899221
>black guy
literally who? fucking Dumas?
1. gonna put a vote in for myself
2. shakespeare
3. nabokov
Proust
Cervantes
Shakespeare
Rabelais
Milan Kundera
Carlos Fuentes
Melville
Homer
Shakespeare
>>7899221
You do know that Hispanic isn't a description of race? Borges and Bolano are white.
>>7901853
>Borges and Bolano are white.
>>7901853
>>7901857
Race in South America is very difficult to define.
>>7901873
>>7901853
ok cholo
>>7901857
Borges descended from European settlers. He is of European descent and his skin is white. What more do you need?
>>7901908
>all europeans are white
>>7901928
Yes fine, I admit it. Borges is black. Don't let his skin colour or place family origin fool you. PSA Obama is Asian.
>>7901857
Bolano
Borges
Nabokov
>>7900805
Was Dumas not black?
Gaddis
Mann
Dostoevsky
>>7902291
He was only a quarter, and as far as I know he wasn't particularly proud of it.
Meanwhile, a writer like Baldwin is ignored in favor of writers like Neil fucking Gaiman, David Mitchell, Tao Lin, Alan Moore, Stephen King, and Haruki Murakami. Fucking pathetic.
>>7902471
Why would Baldwin even come to mind when a thousand great writers aren't there?
Murakami
Mccarthy
Tolstoy
>>7902471
>a writer like Baldwin
Why are you saying his name like he's some untouchable figure? Baldwin is on par with all those authors
>>7899204
Ray Bradbury is a better writer than Toni Morrison and James Baldwin. He wrote well-crafted entertaining and interesting stories that weren't simply masturbation exercises
>>7902532
Ray Bradbury was a horrific prose stylist. Embarrassingly flowery.
r scott bakker, best writer of this century. Too bad most plebs can't understand him.
Erikson is second, his scope is off the charts.
Gene wolf is third. You know why.
>>7902532
Read "Sonny's Blues." Read "Notes of a Native Son." Read Go Tell It on the Mountain. Read Song of Solomon. Read Beloved. The notion that any of these are "masturbation exercises" or somehow lesser than fucking Fahrenheit 451 is unsalvageably stupid.
>>7895811
I want to read more books from English authors. Can you recommend me a few good books to start with that are fairly easy to read/understand?
I'm just starting to get into literature and I'm feeling overwhelmed.
Enough with who is white and keep voting, I'll compile it all when we hit bump limit
Joyce
Dostoevsky
Melville
>>7902927
Not that guy, but I'll give it a go. Think of this as an intro to English Lit:
>Robinson Crusoe
>Gulliver's Travels
>Ivanhoe
>Great Expectations
>Pride and Prejudice
>Jane Eyre
>Wuthering Heights
>Vanity Fair
Shakespeare
Kafka
Milton
id like an acknowledgment of the subset of us that specifically denounce any reading of kafka as immoral in favor of ephemerality as one of the votes
>>7895679
1. Melville
2. Bolaño
3. Antal Szerb
>>7903198
sperg
Faukner
Joyce
Nabokov
>>7903164
Thanks. Most of these are known to be boring, though. What do you think?
Lowry
Mishima
Nabokov
>>7895679
1. Dostoevsky
2. Hesse
3. Tolstoy
1. Arno Schmidt
2. William H. Gass
3. Thomas Ligotti
>>7895679
1.- Cervantes
2.- B. Traven
3.- Borges
1. Virginia Woolf
2. Jane Austen
3. Emily Brontë
William Gass
James Joyce
Jacques Roubaud.
>>7895679
Montaigne
Wittgenstein
Murakami
Toni Morrison
James Baldwin
Olaudah Equiano
>>7904078
Can you post a few more. These are mine as well and want to see how far we go.
Anton Chekhov
William Faulkner
Flannery O'Connor
>>7904117
Alexander Theroux
Samuel Beckett
Raymond Queneau
Arno Schmidt
Raymond Federman
Robert Coover
Henry James
D. Keith Mano
Julian Rios
Gilbert Sorrentino
Any hits?
how come Balzac gets no love on lit? Dude is patrish and lit as shit i don't get it, shit u fags barely read motherfucking flaubert, shit makes me suspicious of plebs
>>7904346
Then make a top 3 with him at the top you wanker.
>>7904346
Flaubert is boring but Balzac is fuck boring
MuraHui
HuiPizda
PizdaPizda
Shakespeare
Joyce
Nabokov
>>7895679
1. Shakespeare.
2. Joyce.
3. Pynchon.
William H. Gass
Raymond Federman
Gilbert Sorrentino
DFW
Pynchon
Joyce
>>7899179
Good
>>7895778
>>7895805
>>7895850
>>7895778
>>7895811
>>7895805
>>7895850
>>7897032
>>7897336
>>7897370
>>7897620
>>7899131
>>7900527
>>7901057
>>7901061
>>7901839
>>7903197
>>7904750
>>7904755
>shakespeare
what a bunch of euphoric fucking idiots.
>>7905049
>not liking shakespeare
1) Dante
2) Shakespeare
3) Goethe
>>7895679
Virgil, Pushkin, Boccaccio
Wallace
Hs Thompson
Salinger
Kafka
Suskind
Chekhov
>>7895803
patrician
1. Farts
2. Wet Farts
3. Dump on Chest
Steinbeck
Orwell
Christopher moore (comedy gold)
>>7895998
Plebest list ive ever fucking see
Steinbeck
Steinbeck
Orwell
1.Cervantes
2.Tolstoy
3.Joyce
>>7902532
>Toni Morrison
what do others think of toni morrison? i'm not a fan, personally.
>>7895679
Kafka
Joyce
Borges
Also this was done recently.
>all these people choosing Dostoevsky
>>7907696
Dostoyevsky has fucking deep themes and messages though dude
Just because he's obscure and complex doesn't mean he's not fucking good.
>>7895679
1. Gene Wolfe
2. Flannery O'Connor
3. R.A. Lafferty
>>7907702
>Dostoevsky
>obscure
>complex
Either bait or profoundly retarded.
>>7907533
What are you not a fan of? I really appreciate the fluid and evocative nature of her prose.
fyi I'm neither black nor white
>>7907702
I don't want to put you down or seem superior, but in the great pantheon of literature Dostoevsky is neither that deep nor that complex.
That doesn't bar him from being a great writer; on the contrary, I enjoy his work. He crafts interesting psychological portraits of people and deals with philosophical questions in an entertaining, convincing, and at times moving way.
Is he in my top 5 though? Nah.
>>7907967
What's your top 5?
>>7895828
you're so full of shit. there's not a soul in the world that actually likes Julian Rios.
>>7909779
Currently, something like Joyce, Faulkner, Borges, Kawabata, and H. Crane
Dostoevsky
Evola
Nietzsche
1. Tolstoy
2. Huxley
3. Kafka
>>7909884
>Borges
His stories are imaginative and oregano and shit but I wouldn't place him among my favourites. I only read those stories tho. Is his poetry any good?
>>7909780
Yes, there is: me.
no idea if theres a better thread this questions like these but does buying books on audible help authors?
Flaubert
Borges
Carpentier
When are you compiling the list OP?
1. Dostoevsky
2. Joyce
3. Faulkner
Raymond Federman
Joseph McElroy
William Gass
McCarthy
Hemingway
Twain
>>7903825
Ivanhoe and Robinson Crusoe are both pretty entertaining
but yeah. read more contemporary stuff from the 20th century
Do I have to read anything before The Brothers Karamazov?
>>7895679
Philip Roth
E e Cummings
William Wordsworth
>>7909884
What's a good entry point for Faulkner?
>>7912547
Go Down, Moses is a good collection of short stories. I have also seen Light in August recommended as an entry-point Faulkner novel (though I have not read it). I would not start with The Sound and the Fury (though that's where I started, it's good but a tough read) or Absalom, Absalom!
>people seriously choosing Dostoyevsky as number one
and you guys mock reddit?
>>7895679
1. Juan Rulfo
2. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
3. Rubén Darío
>>7895679
Proust
Borges
Anne Carson
1. Herman Melville
2. D. H. Lawrence
3. James Agee
I'm guessing this is prose only?
1. Lev Tolstoy
2. Henry James
3. Jane Austen
Tolstoy
Blake
Shakespeare
>>7912529
How to be Middlebrow 101 - Anton Luton
A Beginner's Guide to Reading Mediocrity - Ben Sadley
A Brief History of Passable Books - Kevin Levitt
>>7895679
>Dumas
>Nabokov
>John Green
nah i'm playing third one is tolstoy
1. Homer
2. Melville
3. Defoe
Pound
Mai
Maggie Butt
1.
>>7895695
2.
Flannery O'Conner
3.
Proust
I wonder what Dostoevsky would say if he knew we were saying he was "the best author of all time." I wish we could all go to his house and hoist him up on a sofa like a king and chant "Based Dostoevsky!" while he smiled sheepishly like, "What can I do? They want to celebrate me, I can't stop them." Then at night the atmosphere would shift from a celebratory revel to a something more serious and subdued as the joints come out and we urge Dostoevsky to partake and after a little cajoling he finally does and says, "I haven't done this in a long time." And somebody would say, "It's a good a time to start back up as any," and Dostoevsky would nod and then cough and try to say "True that" through the coughing. "C'mon Fyodor, you can't take those big 1840's hits anymore, you're an old man, and plus this shit is more powerful!" Then we'd ask him if he's feeling it yet, and he'd say "Oh yeah, you guys weren't kidding, this is powerful stuff, not like when I was young." And we'd start asking him what he meant in this book, what he was trying to say when he said that, and so on, and he'd smile and shake his head and say, "It was so long ago, and now you've got me high, I can't remember, I'm sorry!" OK, OK, then, we'd say, we'll give you a break. Sorry. We know you're high. Maybe when you come down a bit. Then somebody would shout, "Dostoevsky did 9/11!" and people would get annoyed and shout at him to shut up and somebody would say, "Who is that? Who brought that asshole?" And when it got late, and we began to feel like we were overstaying our welcome, I would corner Dostoevsky and say, "Hey, listen, I feel like I'm having a panic attack, or something, and I can't go outdoors, something's wrong with me. Is it cool if I crash here? I won't tell anybody." And he'd say Fine, fine (still high as hell), and I'd say, "Thank you, based Dostoevsky," and as I lay awake in the guest room in the dark I would try to think of really smart and insightful questions to ask him over breakfast, which I would have ready for him when he awoke.
>>7914174
great fanfic, anon
>>7895805
>Fitzgerald
Lol, wew lad
>>7914174
Sure smells reddit in here
>>7914174
Mediocre meme, desu
Fine, I'll givvit mine tree pfennigs.
Instead of an attempted replacement of /lit/ favorites (that should wait for October), calls it the three banger list of dude want ... or something.
1. Gore Vidal.
2. Graham Greene.
3. Thomas Pynchon.
Tolstoy
Dickens
Hume
Nabokov
Calvino
Joyce
>>7895679
1. Dylan
2. Dylan
3. Dylan
4. Dylan
5. Dylan
Because he spits hot fire.
Tolstoy
Shakespeare
Ovid
Bulgakov
Voltaire
Henry James
Plato
Tolstoy
Chaucer
This list is going to have a lot less votes
Flaubert
Tolstoy
Borges
Anyone posting Shakespeare belongs over here.
>>7908720
>>7895679
1. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
420
2. Kafka
3. Dostoevsky
>>7918854
Looks like we've found a middlebrow
Kafka
Melville
Camus
Melville
McCarthy
DeLillo
>>7895679
Last list was made in October, wait until October to make a new one so it has been a whole year in between, you fucking newfag.
>>7895957
Doestoevsky
Joyce
Pynchon
1. Sartre
2. Wittgenstein
3. Baudelaire
( 4.) Kafka is legit if you read him in german you umgeziefers.
raymond chandler
raymond carver
1. Joyce
2. McCarthy
3. Milton
Tolstoy
Borges
Platonov
>>7895811
>Vollmann
Dead giveaway. Haha not many people have read Rising Up Rising Down, either you ARE Vollmann, or you are that kid from Deep Springs back in like 2010.
>>7921746
kill this
sage
Tolstoy
Borges
Blake
>>7895686
no complaints, good list
Hugo
Gogol
Huysmans
Shakespeare
Pynchon
Carver
Joyce Carol Oates
L Ron Hubbard
Peter Sotos
>>7923208
Why are you here?
