Who is the best Writer?
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Re: Who is the best Writer?While I agree with many on your list, I can't stand Seamus Heaney. His poetry, especially his later work, is so pretentious. The Death of a Naturalist stuff is alright but I hate Alphabets with a passion.(Original post by PierceBrosnan)
These are in no particularly order. I just think the following are brilliant writers. They may not be all authors but they shouldn't be exempt.
John Green
William Shakespeare
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tennessee Williams
Khaleed Hossieni (Please excuse me if I spelled his name incorrectly).
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Percy Shelley
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Re: Who is the best Writer?EPIC!(Original post by Quornslice)
Favourite book of all time? The very hungry cattepiller. Nothing can beat it in terms of literary genius. XD
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Re: Who is the best Writer?I don't know how you can 'love' aestheticism to be honest. I can understand how a reader can appreciate it, but I don't find 'art for art's sake' enjoyable to read. I once highlighted every colour on a single page of The Picture of Dorian Gray - there was something like 26! Aestheticism is supposed to be about seeking and identifying beauty... Oscar Wilde seems to catalogue it. Having said that, I do like his works; Importance of Being Earnest is a favourite of mine... but I don't like them because of aestheticism.(Original post by Nephilim)
Oscar Wilde. I love Aestheticism.
I'm a Carlos Ruiz Zafon fan. Shadow of the Wind was pure genius, all though Angel's Game was under-whelming and a little pretentious imo. Loved the Noughts and Crosses series (and always will); Jean Ure's 'Plague 99'; The Book Thief etc etc etc -
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Re: Who is the best Writer?I like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg. Hunter S Thompson, William Burroughs, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Ayn Rand, Douglas Adams, John Steinbeck, Patricia Highsmith, Arthur Conan Doyle and TOLKIEN! to name but the few sitting near me haha
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Re: Who is the best Writer?Fair enough you dislike Heaney(Original post by inadilemma)
While I agree with many on your list, I can't stand Seamus Heaney. His poetry, especially his later work, is so pretentious. The Death of a Naturalist stuff is alright but I hate Alphabets with a passion.
. The reason I like him is because of the Irishness he presents within his poetry. I may only be half Irish but it's bloody interesting because it reminds me of my forefathers whom I never met or knew or sought to know.
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Re: Who is the best Writer?Ones that are dead:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jack Kerouac
Sylvia Plath
Tennessee Williams
Ones that are alive:
John FREAKING Green. (Just finished TFIOS 2 days ago, it was brilliant)
Jonathan Safran Foer
But the thing is I think John Green is an all around luminous, awe-inspiring human being, while Jonathan Safran Foer seems like a bit of a pretentious douche. So yeah
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Re: Who is the best Writer?Mikhail Bulgakov - Master and Margarita
Best book I've ever read, by far.
Yes, also another good one. Both books much much better in original language.Last edited by ArcaneAnna; 01-02-2012 at 13:42. -
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Re: Who is the best Writer?lol what a pretencious list.(Original post by Pavlina)
Ones that are dead:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jack Kerouac
Sylvia Plath
Tennessee Williams
Ones that are alive:
John FREAKING Green. (Just finished TFIOS 2 days ago, it was brilliant)
Jonathan Safran Foer
But the thing is I think John Green is an all around luminous, awe-inspiring human being, while Jonathan Safran Foer seems like a bit of a pretentious douche. So yeah
let us be honest, the best writers are the likes of Anthony Horowitz, good ol' J K Rowling and Stephenie Mayer. There books are real page turners! -
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Re: Who is the best Writer?This is a joke right?(Original post by Oxbridge.Potential)
lol what a pretencious list.
let us be honest, the best writers are the likes of Anthony Horowitz, good ol' J K Rowling and Stephenie Mayer. There books are real page turners!
Stephenie Mayer couldn't write jack ****. I could vom up a book in my spare time better than her. -
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Re: Who is the best Writer?(Original post by Oxbridge.Potential)
lol what a pretencious list.
let us be honest, the best writers are the likes of Anthony Horowitz, good ol' J K Rowling and Stephenie Mayer. There books are real page turners!
Your appalling spelling is rendered even more appalling by the fact that it soils the virtual pages of a BOOK discussion.
Also, I cannot believe for the life of me that anyone would cite Stephenie Meyer (you also misspelled her name, bravo) as one of the world's best writers of all time.
Real, genuinely GOOD books are those that make you think about things, about events, ideas and life in general, that make you re-evaluate your most fundamental morals and ideals. They stay with you for life.
Admittedly, Stephenie Meyer WILL stay with me for life, but only as a bitter memory of the author of the worst book I have ever had the misfortune of reading.
JK Rowling, however, is a GOOD writer. Shame you tarnished her name by associating her with utter garbage.
