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25 greatest writers ive encountered

im bored...

i tried to be as impartial as i could, but theres a pretty distinct america bias (and bukowski probably belongs nowhere near even a top 100 list lol)

feel free to make suggestions or respond with your own list. its always interesting to see peoples opinions.


1 William Shakespeare
2 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3 Franz Kafka
4 James Joyce
5 Leo Tolstoy
6 William Faulkner
7 Rembindranath Tagore
8 Herman Melville
9 Li Po
10 Walt Whitman
11 Homer
12 Virginia Woolf
13 Vladimir Nabokov
14 Miguel de Cervantes
15 Henry Charles Bukowski
16 Jorge Luis Borges
17 Christopher Marlowe
18 D H Lawrence
19 Tennessee Williams
20 Pablo Neruda
21 David Foster Wallace
22 Tu Fu
23 Gabriel Garcia Marquez
24 John Ashbery
25 Langston Hughes






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  • kommerzielles Odland
    November 16
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    Ted Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, Jacques Prevert, T.S ELIOT!?

    oh so many i could fucking burst.


  • jantastic gold member
    November 4
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    Cervantes...

    Don Quixote is sitting on my desk. I'm about to tackle it.


    • divebar
      November 4
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      its one of those books that sucks to read, but is amazing to have read. lol.

      last year i had to read it in spanish too. holy fuck! i think i read more of my spanish dictionary than cervantes himself. hahaha


  • parachute fog
    November 4
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    I disagree with this list but it's actually well constructed with Kafka, Tolstoy & Whitman placed high and with David Foster Wallace even making appearance


    • divebar
      November 4
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      if there are any major omissions due to lack of familiarity, do let me know. ive got nothing but free time through january. hoping to blaze through half a dozen.


  • chloris
    November 3
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    well i like most of them


  • heaven all alone
    November 3
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    some expected and also unexpected writers are listed here.

  • unraveled
    November 3
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    everyone on here that i've read before i agree, though homer bores me. love your 2, 3, 4, 6; currently reading a neruda book of poems in spanish (it's soo much better than english translations), and marquez has slowly grown on me, in fact i'm reading 100 years of solitude now. i should make a list like this, though i may just do 10 or 15. 25 is hardcore!


  • Ryno
    November 3
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    Read Li Po today for the first time... loved him!

    Obviously I am a HUGE Walt Whitman fan.

    Don't recognize some of these names in the slightest... when I have some time to spare I'll have to check them out!


    • divebar
      November 3
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      *high five*

      whitman is boss!
      you might like emerson and thoreau too if you havent read them yet.


  • autarky
    November 3
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    great list. i dislike shakespeare, but a few others you might learn to love someday: margaret atwood, li-young lee, billy collins. the list is long.

    and... WHAT. i didn't know the moby dick guy wrote poetry!


    • divebar
      November 3
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      not much. this is more lit than verse.

      and i felt the same way about shakespeare until i read the histories.

      • autarky
        November 3
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        OH. damn. missed the "writers-not-poet" part!

        the histories...?


        • divebar
          November 3
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          antony and cleopatra
          henry v
          richard iii
          henry iv (3 parts)
          julius caeser
          king lear

          ok... king lear wasnt actually a real historical figure and a&c and jc dont techinically qualify, but im sure you get the drift. lol

  • primal-things
    November 3
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    I've never heard of even half these. XD
    Bukowski, Shakespeare (of course), Homer, Faulkner, Melville, Whitman, and Hughes are the only ones I know. Ashbury rings a bell, but I can't really place him. Same with Williams, Lawrence and Li Po. :/

    fun fact: I tried to read The Hamlet recently. never got past page 15.


    • divebar
      November 3
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      WHAT?!
      im going to track you down and read it to you. you cant go through life without hamlet!

      • primal-things
        November 3
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        The one by faulkner? I guess, but seeing as I'm only fifteen, I've got plenty of time.

        it's readily available at my house, I've just got this you're-too-young-to-appreciate-faulkner brain block. XD

        teh sentiment is appreciated, though.

        • divebar
          November 3
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          totally missed the word the. HAHAHAHA
          the hamlet was actually kind of a drag.

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