mine are:
1) Knut Hamsun
2) Dostoevsky
3) John Fante
4) Celine
5) Victor Valoff
who are yours?:)
1) Knut Hamsun
2) Dostoevsky
3) John Fante
4) Celine
5) Victor Valoff
who are yours?:)
top 5 writers (bar buk)
- Thread starter bernard stachman
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1.Sartre
2.Rimbaud
3.Burroughs (Augusten)
4.O'Neil (Eugene)
5.Wolfe (Tom) with Rowling (J.K)
sorry about 5 guys, can't help it.
2.Rimbaud
3.Burroughs (Augusten)
4.O'Neil (Eugene)
5.Wolfe (Tom) with Rowling (J.K)
sorry about 5 guys, can't help it.
justine
stop the penistry
Why Camus is the @#$%
#1 Albert Camus
#2 Fyodor Dostoyevski
#3 Franz Kafka
#4 John Fante
#5 Jack Kerouac
Camus rocks, fuckin' rocks.
Such a gentle way of telling us how things will turn out. The rest is obvious...By that I mean the world shall get it, or not; not a Camus thing, just a...thing.
#1 Albert Camus
#2 Fyodor Dostoyevski
#3 Franz Kafka
#4 John Fante
#5 Jack Kerouac
Camus rocks, fuckin' rocks.
Such a gentle way of telling us how things will turn out. The rest is obvious...By that I mean the world shall get it, or not; not a Camus thing, just a...thing.
number6horse
okyoutwopixiesoutyougo
1) I
2) Should
3) Think
4) This
5) Over.......
2) Should
3) Think
4) This
5) Over.......
mmm... ok,
in random order. but 7 since it's a nicer number to me.
1. Anna Akhmatova
2. Attila Jozsef
3. Sandor Kanyadi
4. E.M. Cioran
5. Anton Chekhov "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress" ... I understand that. :cool:
6. Ayn Rand (only for Fountainhead)
7. CP (I'll leave that one up to interpretation)
eh...now THAT was personal. :p
in random order. but 7 since it's a nicer number to me.
1. Anna Akhmatova
2. Attila Jozsef
3. Sandor Kanyadi
4. E.M. Cioran
5. Anton Chekhov "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress" ... I understand that. :cool:
6. Ayn Rand (only for Fountainhead)
7. CP (I'll leave that one up to interpretation)
eh...now THAT was personal. :p
P
postino
Prosper Merimee
Norman Mailer
JRR Tolkein
Aldous Huxley
Anthony Burgess
Norman Mailer
JRR Tolkein
Aldous Huxley
Anthony Burgess
P
postino
I was thinking strongly about mentioning Camus, but I didn't want to sound too pretentious. There's something very empathetic about his writing. He could easily take the place of Huxley on my list.
number6horse
okyoutwopixiesoutyougo
Dylan Thomas
Shakespeare
Salinger
Faulkner
Elmore Leonard
in no particular order
except thats how i typed them
tonight
Shakespeare
Salinger
Faulkner
Elmore Leonard
in no particular order
except thats how i typed them
tonight
M
MULLINAX
Tolstoy
Herge
Shakespeare
O Henry
Homer (not Simpson)
Herge
Shakespeare
O Henry
Homer (not Simpson)
M
MULLINAX
Father Luke
Founding member
- Jim thompson
- Hemingway
-Anne Herbert
-Cornell Woolrich
-justin.barrett
-William Taylor Jr
-Al Masarik
-Raymond Carver
- Hemingway
-Anne Herbert
-Cornell Woolrich
-justin.barrett
-William Taylor Jr
-Al Masarik
-Raymond Carver
M
MULLINAX
Isn't Victor Valoff Buk's old Nazi pal, the guy with the gun who forced a crying Baldy to blurt out "I'm a man, I'm a man" and then shot a hole in the bottom of the boat they were rowing, causing it to sink?
Somewhere in HAM ON RYE.
Somewhere in HAM ON RYE.
Father Luke
Founding member
Igor squared himself in front of Baldy.
"You're not a man!"
"I AM A MAN, IGOR! I AM A MAN!"
"YOU LIE!"
Igor backhanded him across the face and as Baldy's head jumped to one side, he straightened him up with a slap to the other side of his face. Baldy stood at attention with his hands rigidly at his sides.
"I'm . . . a man . . ,"
Igor continued to stand in front of him.
"I'll make a man out of you!"
"O.K.," I said to Igor, "leave him alone."
Igor left the kitchen. I poured myself another rum. It was dreadful stuff but it was all there was.
Igor walked back in. He was holding a gun, a real one, an old six- shooter.
"We will now play Russian roulette," he announced.
"Your mother's ass," I said.
"I'll play, Igor," said Baldy, "I'll play! I'm a man!"
"All right," said Igor, "there is one bullet in the gun. I will spin the chamber and hand the gun to you."
Igor spun the chamber and handed the gun to Baldy. Baldy took it and pointed it at his head. "I'm a man . . . I'm a man . . . I'll do it!"
He began crying again. "I'll do it . . . I'm a man . . ."
Baldy let the muzzle of the gun slip away from his temple. He pointed it away from his skull and pulled the trigger. There was a click.
Igor took the gun, spun the chamber and handed it to me. I handed it back.
"You go first."
Igor spun the chamber, held the gun up to the light and looked through the chamber. Then he put the gun to his temple and pulled the trigger. There was a click.
"Big deal," I said. "You checked the chamber to see where the bullet was."
Igor spun the chamber and handed the gun to me. "Your turn..."
I handed the gun back. "Stuff it," I told him. I walked over to pour myself another rum. As I did there was a shot. I looked down. Near my foot, in the kitchen floor, there was a bullet hole. I turned around.
"You ever point that thing at me again and I'll kill you, Igor."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah."
He stood there smiling. He slowly began to raise the gun. I waited. Then he lowered the gun. That was about it for the night. We went out to the car and Igor drove us home. But we stopped first at Westlake Park and rented a boat and went out on the lake to finish off the rum. With the last drink, Igor loaded up the gun and shot holes in the bottom of the boat. We were forty yards from shore and had to swim in . . .
It was late when I got home. I crawled over the old berry bush and through the bedroom window. I undressed and went to bed while in the next room my father snored. - from HAM ON RYE by Charles Bukowski
"You're not a man!"
"I AM A MAN, IGOR! I AM A MAN!"
"YOU LIE!"
Igor backhanded him across the face and as Baldy's head jumped to one side, he straightened him up with a slap to the other side of his face. Baldy stood at attention with his hands rigidly at his sides.
"I'm . . . a man . . ,"
Igor continued to stand in front of him.
"I'll make a man out of you!"
"O.K.," I said to Igor, "leave him alone."
Igor left the kitchen. I poured myself another rum. It was dreadful stuff but it was all there was.
Igor walked back in. He was holding a gun, a real one, an old six- shooter.
"We will now play Russian roulette," he announced.
"Your mother's ass," I said.
"I'll play, Igor," said Baldy, "I'll play! I'm a man!"
"All right," said Igor, "there is one bullet in the gun. I will spin the chamber and hand the gun to you."
Igor spun the chamber and handed the gun to Baldy. Baldy took it and pointed it at his head. "I'm a man . . . I'm a man . . . I'll do it!"
He began crying again. "I'll do it . . . I'm a man . . ."
Baldy let the muzzle of the gun slip away from his temple. He pointed it away from his skull and pulled the trigger. There was a click.
Igor took the gun, spun the chamber and handed it to me. I handed it back.
"You go first."
Igor spun the chamber, held the gun up to the light and looked through the chamber. Then he put the gun to his temple and pulled the trigger. There was a click.
"Big deal," I said. "You checked the chamber to see where the bullet was."
Igor spun the chamber and handed the gun to me. "Your turn..."
I handed the gun back. "Stuff it," I told him. I walked over to pour myself another rum. As I did there was a shot. I looked down. Near my foot, in the kitchen floor, there was a bullet hole. I turned around.
"You ever point that thing at me again and I'll kill you, Igor."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah."
He stood there smiling. He slowly began to raise the gun. I waited. Then he lowered the gun. That was about it for the night. We went out to the car and Igor drove us home. But we stopped first at Westlake Park and rented a boat and went out on the lake to finish off the rum. With the last drink, Igor loaded up the gun and shot holes in the bottom of the boat. We were forty yards from shore and had to swim in . . .
It was late when I got home. I crawled over the old berry bush and through the bedroom window. I undressed and went to bed while in the next room my father snored. - from HAM ON RYE by Charles Bukowski
M
MULLINAX
Fucking fantastic! I am laughing out loud, as I did when I first read this. I guess I confused "Valoff" with "Igor".
Hmm...
John Fante
Douglas Coupland
Amy Hempel
Chuck Palahniuk
Bret Easton Ellis
With honourable mentions to Truman Capote and George Orwell.
John Fante
Douglas Coupland
Amy Hempel
Chuck Palahniuk
Bret Easton Ellis
With honourable mentions to Truman Capote and George Orwell.
top 5 bar buk
these two are interesting choices, Father Luke. Have a strong interest contemporary small press poets?
these two are interesting choices, Father Luke. Have a strong interest contemporary small press poets?
Father Luke
Founding member
and before them, Anne Herbert and Al Masarik.
yes.
yes.
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Vladimir Nabokov
- James Joyce
- Samuel Beckett
- Edgar Allan Poe
(hard to narrow it down to 5...it's more 10 favourites and who makes
my top 5 has more to do with my mood of the day:
Jean Rhys, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Tennessee Williams are faves as well)
I'm Norwegian, glad to see Hamsun made someone's list :)
- Vladimir Nabokov
- James Joyce
- Samuel Beckett
- Edgar Allan Poe
(hard to narrow it down to 5...it's more 10 favourites and who makes
my top 5 has more to do with my mood of the day:
Jean Rhys, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Tennessee Williams are faves as well)
I'm Norwegian, glad to see Hamsun made someone's list :)