Favorite Author or Poet
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Sarah M.
NORTHERN IRELAND,
United Kingdom
87 posts
Member since: 10/25/2010
Robert Ludlum-The Bourne series :D
posted Jul 31, 2011
Poppy Lee J.
THE CITY ,
Germany
451 posts
Member since: 04/22/2011
Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Rimbaud, Nick Hornby, Stephen King.
And, no matter what everybody says, I still love the Twilight books by Stephenie Meyer. :)
posted Aug 1, 2011
Chris F.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS,
United States
6820 posts
OG since: 06/21/2009
Haruki Murakami, hands down. A commendable storyteller and a genius with words. And Ibi Kaslik is the best new author. Her prowess as a writer is necessary experience in life.
posted Aug 23, 2011
Mie W.
Norway
331 posts
OG since: 05/23/2010
Charles dickens!
posted Aug 24, 2011
Max. G.
France
120 posts
Member since: 09/25/2011
I love Boris Vian. As for the poets, I quite like Rimbaud, Baudelaire and Verlaine or other symbolist ones.
posted Nov 29, 2011
Milena B.
SAN FELIPE, CHILE,
Chile
39 posts
Member since: 09/25/2011
Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gabriel García Márquez & Maria Luisa Bombal (:
posted Nov 30, 2011
Lea N.
France
14 posts
Member since: 11/18/2011
Stephen King, he is incredible.
posted Dec 1, 2011
Dallas M.
SOUTHERN SPAIN,
Spain
46 posts
Member since: 05/29/2011
If you're able to read spanish Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Rafael Alberti... There are so many good poets!!
posted Dec 2, 2011
Becky B.
2005,
United Kingdom
593 posts
Member since: 08/28/2010
Philip Larkin
I also adore the intro to Phillip Ridley's Plays
posted Dec 2, 2011
Tool S.
LOS ANGELES,
United States
114 posts
Member since: 09/04/2011
"And of course, JK Rowling's a great post-modern author."
J.K Rowling isn't postmodern in any sense of the word.
posted Dec 3, 2011
Luca S.
MIDIAN,
Slovenia
275 posts
OG since: 03/06/2010
H.P. Lovecraft and Paulo Coelho
posted Dec 3, 2011
Summer T.
USA BUT LIVING IN SOUTH KOREA,
Korea
6 posts
Member since: 01/04/2011
Yes! Murakami for the win! I had to read 'A Wild Sheep Chase' for a course in uni and since then I've been hooked.
posted Dec 6, 2011
Julia A.
THE SUMMER OF LOVE,
United States
251 posts
Member since: 08/29/2011
Yeah, as a fan of postmodern lit I'd have to agree: JK Rowling is not postmodern at all.
posted Dec 9, 2011
Julia A.
THE SUMMER OF LOVE,
United States
251 posts
Member since: 08/29/2011
On the subject of postmodern lit, I just finished Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace and it was just incredible!!! I'd recommend it to anyone with a bit of time on their hands. It takes a bit of getting used to, and a lot of time, but it's SO worth it.
Otherwise, I love Charles Baudelaire, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Viktor Shklovsky, Anna Akhmatova, Billy Collins, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and especially Franz Kafka. (I'm a grad student so I'm allowed to be a little pretentious :P )
posted Dec 9, 2011
Jewey T.
Philippines
4 posts
Member since: 09/06/2010
I like Edgar Allan Poe. And as for authors, I like Sidney Sheldon, Daniel Steele and Paulo Coelho.
posted Dec 11, 2011
Mikki C.
THIS ONE PLACE,
United States
105 posts
OG since: 06/02/2009
I don't know much about poets.
But for authors, I enjoy: HARUKI MURAKAMI, Mark Twain, George Orwell, Chaim Potok, and John Steinbeck
posted Dec 12, 2011
Lucia G.
WONDERLAND,
Heard Island and McDonald Islands
104 posts
Member since: 10/25/2011
Cathy Hopkins, she's awesome! If someone of you have ever read any of her books, please talk to me, I'd love to know someone who loves Cathy too! :)
posted Dec 14, 2011
Amber S.
1965,
Netherlands
379 posts
Member since: 02/18/2011
James Joyce <3
posted Dec 16, 2011
Sebastian N.
STOCKHOLM,
Sweden
219 posts
Member since: 09/28/2011
Franz Kafka, Italo Calvino, Marcel Proust, Ayn Rand, Friedrich Nietzsche.
posted Dec 17, 2011
Kevin T.
WASHINGTON, DC,
United States
48 posts
Member since: 08/13/2011
Favorite poet has to be Pablo Neruda, don't really have a favorite author but I'm really enjoying David Sedaris
posted Dec 17, 2011
Tok V.
Germany
413 posts
Member since: 12/03/2011
My favourite authors are also Franz Kafka and Nietzsche - I can read all their works in German and that's really an advantage. Have you read Kafka's short stories, Seb? They're gorgeous. :)
I adore also Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and Theodore Roethke.
posted Dec 19, 2011
Sebastian N.
STOCKHOLM,
Sweden
219 posts
Member since: 09/28/2011
I would love to read em' in the original language. I havn't read the short stories no :-( I'm on It though. Any recommendations on where to begin?
posted Dec 19, 2011
Charmaine C.
UK,
United Kingdom
164 posts
Member since: 10/13/2010
Wilbur Smith! All the stories on africa and egypt, ahh, i love them! He really can paint a clear image into your head.. i can never put his books down!
posted Jan 4, 2012
Chessie C.
A MAD TEA PARTY,
United States
21 posts
Member since: 08/28/2010
Jonathan Safran Foer. Everything is Illuminated gets better every time I read it. (Plus his other books are fantastic too)
posted Jan 21, 2012
Isabelle C.
NEW YORK,
United States
118 posts
Member since: 07/03/2011
F. Scott Fitzgerald; but Aldous Huxley's Brave New World will always be a favorite :]
posted Jan 21, 2012
Lena B.
Germany
152 posts
Member since: 10/12/2010
Kathy Reichs and Cecily von Ziegesar.
Tempe and Gossip Girl just got it!
posted Jan 25, 2012
Alexander H.
CHICAGO,
United States
5 posts
Member since: 10/04/2010
Saul Williams & Haruki Murakami are two of my favorite authors, poetry and fiction respectively.
posted Jan 26, 2012
Jim E.
BREWER CITY, USA,
United States
2 posts
Member since: 01/06/2011
I have to give it up to Robert M Pirsig for Zen & The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, I've read that book every year for the last eight years and it still inspires me, a real life changer. Now as for poet hands down has to be Pablo Neruda, damn that man could breathe sensuality into language.
posted Jan 27, 2012
Alexandra L.
GIURGIU,
Romania
55 posts
Member since: 11/07/2010
absolutely love Edgar Alan Poe <3
posted Feb 7, 2012
Jane W.
Korea
11 posts
Member since: 12/16/2010
SYLVIA PLATH and Oscar Wilde <3
posted Feb 7, 2012
Vanessa A.
NEW YORK,
United States
96 posts
Member since: 01/06/2012
Sharon olds n billy Collins for poets. For authors, I like Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain and Wordsworth
posted Feb 8, 2012
Delphine R.
EVERYWHERE,
France
24 posts
Member since: 03/11/2011
Dostoïevski and Oscar Wilde as authors (I know, it's not really new litterature !), Baudelaire and Rimbaud as poets.
posted Feb 8, 2012
Cynthia R.
NYC,
United States
130 posts
Member since: 12/27/2011
EE Cummings is who inspired me to become a literature major in college.
posted Feb 9, 2012
J T.
FREEDONIA,
United Kingdom
23 posts
OG since: 07/15/2010
Graham Greene is my favourite author, and The End of the Affair, Monsignor Quixote, Our Man in Havana, The Power and the Glory and A Burnt-out Case are my favourite novels by him. I've never read anything by him that I haven't enjoyed.
posted Mar 4, 2012
Courtney L.
SYDNEY,
Australia
91 posts
Member since: 02/05/2011
Robert Frost and Stephen King.
posted Mar 18, 2012
Chantal B.
United Kingdom
8 posts
Member since: 02/21/2012
Joshua Bennett, 10 things I'd say to a black women. This poem is so beautiful powerful and strong . I cried.
posted Mar 18, 2012
Shaina S.
ATLANTA,
United States
102 posts
Member since: 06/26/2011
aldous huxley my main man
sylvia plath, franz kafka, e.e. cummings, jean-paul sartre, friedrich nietzsche, vladimir nabokov and fernando pessoa
stephen king, jonathan safran foer, and ayn rand make me what to gauge my eyes out with a pair of rusty pliers
posted Mar 18, 2012
Annelie K.
ESSEN, NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN,
Germany
4 posts
Member since: 03/14/2011
It's definitely Hermann Hesse!
posted Mar 19, 2012
Melissa W.
MIDDLE EARTH,
United States
21 posts
Member since: 10/13/2011
Tolkien.
Tolkien.Tolkien.Tolkien.
;_;
posted Apr 8, 2012
Emina H.
SARAJEVO,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
42 posts
Member since: 10/06/2010
Tolkien and Paulo Coelho.
posted Apr 8, 2012
Oysi S.
MANILA,
Philippines
29 posts
Member since: 10/02/2011
^ COELHO IS THE MASTER OF ALCHEMY AND OF LITERARY MAGIC. <3
Paulo Coelho. Nicholas Sparks (cheesy for some, predictable plot sometimes, but still, he surprises me often), J.K. Rowling (Potterhead forever), Edgar Allan Poe (creepy yet cool), Jane Austen (I love her), Dante Alighieri (amazing descriptions), Alex Flinn (the fairytale retelling style is awesommmmme).
Hahaha ok J.K. Rowling & Coelho. Tied =))
posted Apr 8, 2012
Sophia W.
Sweden
24 posts
Member since: 10/03/2011
My favourite authors are Anne Rice and Tolkien
posted Apr 9, 2012