Greatest Writer of All Time?

[tbombz]

Absolutely not. I just finished the Fountainhead for the second time and the writing is average at best. Her philosophical views are what made her famous, but not her writing.

You obviously just can't pick one, but I really think Hemingway is a true contender for one of the best.

Agreed on both counts 

[stuntmovie]

Leon Uris

James Michner

[Archer77]

 Agreed on both counts  

What is your favorite work by Hemmingway?  My personal favorite is The Sun Also Rises.

[TrueGrit]

Of course Shakespeare. Chaucer too. Dickens,Camus, Orwell, Tolkien deserve a mention.

[Branchs Ears]

The correct answer is Falcon of course. 

I enjoy Steinbeck too.

[tbombz]

What is your favorite work by Hemmingway?  My personal favorite is The Sun Also Rises.

dont have one. Im only mildy familiar with his work. Picked up a copy of his "complete short stories" a couple years back, read several of them and was astonished at how he made the pages come to life. Had never read anyone else who did such a thing in such a manner. I cant remember any particular story, except for one about a rich man who takes his wife on a hunting trip, she tries to bed the guide and ends up shooting her husband by accident.  

[Archer77]

dont have one. Im only mildy familiar with his work. Picked up a copy of his "complete short stories" a couple years back, read several of them and was astonished at how he made the pages come to life. Had never read anyone else who did such a thing in such a manner. I cant remember any particular story, except for one about a rich man who takes his wife on a hunting trip, she tries to bed the guide and ends up shooting her husband by accident.  

Give The Sun Also Rises a try sometimes.


How about H. P. Lovecraft?

[Wolfox]

There are lots of great writers who I'll never get to experience in all their awesomeness due to translations and different styles of writing/language used in different eras.

[El Diablo Blanco]

Penthouse Letters

[The Ugly]

What is your favorite work by Hemmingway?  My personal favorite is The Sun Also Rises.

I tried to read that years ago, but I couldn't get through it. My girlfriend recommended it, said it was one of her favorites. She loved the bullfighting, but I never made it that far; I just remember a few ex-pats in Paris, chatting up who knows what over coffee. A dude who lost his balls in the war, maybe? I don't know, I wanted to like it.

[Big Chiro Flex]

L. Ron Hubbard

[Archer77]

I tried to read that years ago, but I couldn't get through it. My girlfriend recommended it, said it was one of her favorites. She loved the bullfighting, but I never made it that far; I just remember a few ex-pats in Paris, chatting up who knows what over coffee. A dude who lost his balls in the war, maybe? I don't know, I wanted to like it.

Not a bad synopsis. 

[The Ugly]

Not a bad synopsis. 

It's a short read, too, I should have pushed through. Loved Old Man and the Sea, and some of his short stories.

[D.O.U.P]

X2

BUKOWSKI
X3

plain, yet descriptive wording, insightful, passively angry and FUNNY.

dude was a BEAST.

[The Ugly]

I like me some Vonnegut, too.

[Wolfox]

"Mein Kamp" out sales everyone, so Hitler wins 

My Struggle - Our Struggle, brother. 

[Wez]

BUKOWSKI
X3

plain, yet descriptive wording, insightful, passively angry and FUNNY.

dude was a BEAST.

Amazing who else wrote about beer shits?

[Wolfox]

Haven't read enough nor am I learned enough to even have an idea of who the GOAT is. I'll just say some of my favorites are Orwell, Shakespeare, Milton, Philip Dick, and George RR Martin.

[Tapeworm]

Official answer: Joyce

Actual favorite: Wodehouse

[Hulkotron]

Hulko H.Y.M. Tron

[Wez]

Official answer: Joyce

Actual favorite: Wodehouse

I tried to read Ulysses......gave me a headache

Besides Fyodor Dost and Bukowski, Henry Miller, John Fante, Celine, Knut Hansun, Yukio Mishima, Hubert Selby, Turgenev, Dos Passos ah that's enough.

[tbombz]

I tried to read that years ago, but I couldn't get through it. My girlfriend recommended it, said it was one of her favorites. She loved the bullfighting, but I never made it that far; I just remember a few ex-pats in Paris, chatting up who knows what over coffee. A dude who lost his balls in the war, maybe? I don't know, I wanted to like it.

ahhhh.   I remember something about chatting over coffee, and also bull fighting. Some veteran bull fighter who gets a chance to do it again and gets messed up by the bull. Archer?

[Archer77]

ahhhh.   I remember something about chatting over coffee, and also bull fighting. Some veteran bull fighter who gets a chance to do it again and gets messed up by the bull. Archer?

The injury to his testicles is from the war.   Thought it is never directly stated what his injury is, its heavily applied there was damage to his nuts

[The Ugly]

I tried to read Ulysses......gave me a headache

Besides Fyodor Dost and Bukowski, Henry Miller, John Fante, Celine, Knut Hansun, Yukio Mishima, Hubert Selby, Turgenev, Dos Passos ah that's enough.

Whoa, Wez, first time I heard that name on here. One of my college professors wrote his biography, Full of Life. Ask the Dust was great, he wanted us all to read it. Fante was a big inspiration for Bukowski, and later Thom Jones, a brilliant short story writer. He read at our school. Good call, man.

[Tapeworm]

I tried to read Ulysses......gave me a headache

Besides Fyodor Dost and Bukowski, Henry Miller, John Fante, Celine, Knut Hansun, Yukio Mishima, Hubert Selby, Turgenev, Dos Passos ah that's enough.

Fuckin A.  The printed version of heavy deads on squat day.  Guess I'll take another run at it one of these days.