Who was more GOAT than hemingway
 

does anyone even come close? fitzgerald maybe?

let me know

K.A. Applegate.

dante alighieri

yea inferno was a good one, not gonna lie it was on some GOAT level shit

Vladimir Nabokov and Kurt Vonnegut are my favorites, but I would put William Faulkner, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway and Nabokov at the top of the greatest of all-time list. The order can be disputed.

I don't care for F. Scott Fitzgerald much.

lmfao na

dostoyevsky is maybe GOAT

Henry David Thoreau

i'll animorph a xanaform. slam a course of Abelour.

Carl Jung

I always feel (perhaps unfairly) that translated writing cannot properly capture the author's intent (unless the author was the translator, as was the case for some of Vladimir Nabokov's work). But if the language barrier is overlooked, you're right.

Thomas WOLFE

James Joyce. i think William Golding is sort of underrated. i don't know what this thread is about. i just want to mention lots of poets.

obv Steinbeck

Jung was GOAT psychologist, the undiscovered self was good

Joyce is baller only a few ppl can pull off his wackiness, I started finnegan's wake and I was like yo THIS TAKES TOO MUCH RESEARCH AND CONCENTRATION and I was like na, let me play some more zelda bro

Steiner was cool on that subconscious animals getting bigger in the intro of mice and men type shit

even trannyed his characters r baller

I've never really read like anybody in this thread cept for a couple books.

James Joyce is difficult. My favorite of his work is A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, mostly because it's the one that I come away fulfilled from. He's one of the least-prolific authors who gets mentioned in these discussions, but he rewrote writing to a degree. The academics are obsessed. I probably wouldn't recommend anything other than Dubliners and maybe Portrait to friends.

Oscar Wilde is in the conversation for greatest all-around writer. (Admittedly, that discussion ends with William Shakespeare every time.)

Obv Lil Wayne is obv