Hemingway is way overrated. His writing is too terse and uninteresting. The best is Fitzgerald hands down.

i enjoyed a farewell to arms

and that's it

you know who sucked the d?

steinbeck

so fucking unreadable

only one worse is joyce

THAT'S RIGHT I SAID JAMES JOYCE IS UNFUCKINGREADABLE

Just because the scholars agree someone is an all time great doesn't mean they're good.

I can't stand some books by some 'best writer of all-time' candidates. Some people fake liking them to feel intellectual. Just read interesting shit. No correct answer.

-drinks another beer-

I THOUGHT OF A WORSE WRITER THAN JOYCE

THE BRONTE SISTERS

WUTHER THIS DICK YOU CUNTS

drunk diode, please post moar. post all the posts. go!

Pancake is right. Kurt Vonnegut is constantly put up there and he doesn't speak great English so how can he write it?

lol

You won't like everyone. It's shallow not to respect an author on the basis of not enjoying his work.

kurt was a golden god of the human experience

AND HE WAS IN BACK 2 SCHOOL STARRING RODNEY DANGERFIELD

Yeah, I can respect someone for writing well. That's cool.

If I don't enjoy what they write they're not good to me. It's not shallow. It's just not good to me. There isn't some list of writers above reproach. If I was completely sober I could articulate this better. 'Scholars' suck too, for the most part.

Most people suck. So do their opinions. Scholars and their general opinion are no different.

If anyone disagrees with me they are wrong.

actually any of those all time great authors write well, we're just being judgmental based on taste. same here, some of you write well but your writing isn't my cup of tea. I mean I guess someone can think that someone doesn't write well, that a lot of people do, but idk. who cares .

I haven't read enough to say who's the best yet but...

I always liked Octavia Butler and Jules Verne was a g.

No one has or ever will.

Salman Rushdie
JM Coetzee
Raymond Carver
William Boyd

some more recent writers that are on par with the all time greats in my opinion.

Keats


Chaucer


both beasts

im proud to say i havent read anything from anyone mentioned in this thread

nerd ass niggas

if i wanna read dope quotes from humans i can look at actual badasses from the real world in history. not something some reclusive faggot wrote while sitting in his room eating potatos proclaiming himself a genius

King Solomon, for his infamously profound statement; "life is useless" (and the book of Ecclesiastes in general). Shout outs to Jack Kerouac. Still remember Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" as compulsory reading in HS. English was absolutely boring (imho).

Revisiting books you were forced to read in school can be illuminating ... or every bit as tedious.

I'm just glad its over with.

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

DIOGENES DA GOD circa 370 BC

lol'd irl.

this. nothing built such disdain for great literature like high school english class. I remember hating both Huck Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird in HS, but when I actually read them again on my own, loved both.

truuue statement. read scarlet letter, dubliners, grapes of wrath, mockingbird, and others in HS. barely finished any and hated them all. at the time..

dubliners i still hate. scarlet letter i haven't gone back to read.

but grapes and mockingbird became some of my favorite books after revisiting them on my own terms. things are weird like that. i also hated science and history throughout all of school. they are now just about the only things that interest me..

that's how a lot of school was for me until junior year of college tbh. I enjoyed learning, but there was a big disconnect between that and my time in class. I used to hate science and math, but the last two years of college I had as many physics and finance classes as I did english. growing up, I guess.

are any of you on goodreads.com? @dead man @Vulgar @Certain @Totoro

Na wat is that?

Nah.

register on it. it's a web site where you track your reading and read/write reviews and shit, like social media based around books. I like it.

I have an account. I never use it, though.

I don't interact with people on it, but I use it to find books and read reviews. Pretty handy.