One of the coolest authors of all time? We know.

[PhillyDave]

Lists can be a silly thing and I don't even agree with all on this list. I sure the same can be said for all of you but hey, Buk's on the list, as he should be. "50 Coolest Authors of All Time"

 

[Johannes]

Bukowski is Nr. 36. Wow.

Your link leads to James Ellroy, who is Nr. 39. :wb:

 

[PhillyDave]

Let us assume, for the hell of it, that the list is in no particular order. Link adjusted. 8-))

 

[skiroomalum]

If Brett Easton Ellis is considered "cool" then I must nominate Danny Valdez as being "red hot."

 

[PhillyDave]

@skiroomalum I agree although I did read and enjoy Less Than Zero. Nick Tosches should be on the list too.

 

[skiroomalum]

Agreed. And Legs McNeil. Don Dellilo should be top 5 and didn't see him on the list. And Lester Bangs and Selby and...

 

[PhillyDave]

DeLillo for sure... We could go on and on. These lists are so subjective. But yes, i agree. At least they got one author right: BUKOWSKI! Hey, no Henry Miller if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

I've got a house with shelves, cases, stacks and piles of books and I don't own a single book by about half of them. I haven't even heard of about 1/3 of them. I must really not be that cool. :cool:

 

[PhillyDave]

Your name is Purple Stickpin. How could you not be cool?

 

[hoochmonkey9]

I have/had books by 43 of them.

But I haven't been cool in 25 years.

 

[skiroomalum]

Cool? I thought you were a rude boy.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Don't follow, but I can be rude if called upon. :confused:

Oh, I unceremoniously thought skiroomilumski was responding to me. He was responding to another hack, hooch. Got it. :eek:

 

[roni]

Lists can be a silly thing [...]

when I've been to Thailand in 2006 there was a magazine for foreigners living there (the Thai-word for this kinda persons is "Farang" or as they pronounce it "Falang", which also was the name of said magazine).

Just then they did have a list in their latest issue: They've been rating the "Top-5-drinkers of the 20th century".

Our man is in there.

 

[number6horse]

Ok - I "scored" 20 out of 50. But I did not count the ones I have forever dismissed and warned others to avoid like literary Ebola. So I guess I'm only 40% cool.

But lists are lists...