top 5 writers (bar buk)

[LickTheStar]

1.John Fante
2. Hunter S. Thompson
3. Kurt Vonnegut
4. Jack Kerouac
5. Dan Fante

I'm actually trying to think where I'd put Bukowski in my top 5... Probably 3... Definitely a level above Kerouac... Maybe above Vonnegut... Hm... Yeah I guess he'd be 3.

 

[bluebottle]

top five, hmmm- in no particular order:

henry miller
john steinbeck
li po
hemingway
neruda

 

[trivigo]

I didn't think this would be so tough. I suspect a top 20 list would be more representative, while still forcing limitation (e.g., where are the women?!) Maybe a future thread.

1) David Mamet
2) Albert Camus
3) Raymond Carver
4) Kurt Vonnegut
5) Jean-Paul Sartre

 

[sgtpeppers]

Bret Easton Ellis
Albert Camus
Augusten Burroughs
Hunter S Thompson
Chuck Palahniuk

 

[slimedog]

jim thompson

nelson algren

tennesee williams

f scott fitzgerald

oscar wilde

danielle steele

I wanna put Steinbeck in there so I gotta take out tennesee

 

[the only good poet]

I wanna put Steinbeck in there so I gotta take out tennesee

you wanna take out tennesse when you've got steele there?!

:eek:

oh well, it's your decision...

 

[the only good poet]

i don't really have a top five list of writers, but i'd like to throw some names out which have grabbed me.

leopardi (a particular translation published by princeton uni. press.)
samuel butler (one novel "the way of all flesh.")
c.p. cavafy (particularly the short, personal poem.)
jose ortega y gasset (some of his works are transcripts of lectures and thus, are conversational in tone.)
chamfort (like lichtenberg, was beloved by schopenhaeur and nietzsche.)

 

[R.Bolan]

Jim Harrison
Céline [writings, not ideas]
Allen Ginsberg
Rick Bass
William S. Burroughs