Who was more GOAT than hemingway

[NYCSPITZ]

does anyone even come close? fitzgerald maybe?

let me know

[PancakeBrah]

K.A. Applegate.

[Masaii]

dante alighieri

[NYCSPITZ]

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

[Certain]

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.

[NYCSPITZ]

K.A. Applegate.

lmfao na

[NYCSPITZ]

dostoyevsky is maybe GOAT

[dead man]

Henry David Thoreau

[Split]

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

[dead man]

Carl Jung

[Certain]

dostoyevsky is maybe GOAT

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.

[NYCSPITZ]

Thomas WOLFE

[Eŋg]

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.

[Split]

obv Steinbeck

[NYCSPITZ]

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

[NYCSPITZ]

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

[NYCSPITZ]

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.

even trannyed his characters r baller

[Split]

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

[Certain]

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.)

[Neighbor]

Obv Lil Wayne is obv

[Split]

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.

Tolstoy

[Ghost1]

Gay

Mustachio close thread

[dull boy]

nb4 big baby names himself.

[big baby]

big baby

mustachio officially close thread.

[Masaii]

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

It has been rated amongst many to be the single greatest book to come out of the middle ages and one of the best books ever written.

[Diode]

hunter thompson
kurt vonnegut
aldous huxley
george orwell
tenneseee williams
mark twain

i could go on.

[PancakeBrah]

I don't read a lot.

K.A. Applegate
Cormac McCarthy
Chuck Pahlaniuk

Not the GOATS but authors I enjoyed at some point in my life.

Reading is for lame-o's.

Not really. I should read more. I like it. But Netflix and other stuff is better suited for the new-age short attention life. I don't have ADHD though. Who knows bros.

[dull boy]

I didn't like Inferno.

[Wise Wiggles]

Whatcha reading for?

[Diode]

dear wis

dat ass

does she have titties too?

[PancakeBrah]

elbows too pointy

wouldnotbang/10

[Witty]

Whatcha reading for?

Bill Hicks quote?

[big baby]

i can only read a certain type of writing, i like reading prose and satire. your fellow native ck, sedaris, neilman, a few others. books like burnhams new shel silver imitation but a bit more vulgar is funny and i want to release a book like that. i read a lot of poetry, and i never find one writer i like to continually read besides a few satirical authors. sedaris is awesome. i think they're good writers overall, but they go unnoticed due to the harvard and cornell graduates that feel the need to use words unnecessarily in every sentence and other wannabe high end writers think that's what makes a writer good. but hey to each his own right? WRONG BIG BABY ALWAYS RIGHT. mustachio stache hadouken. i find it easier to read in a nice scenery than in the comfort of my own home. though i think reading should be done in such places to expand thought and surround yourself with different aura. hemingway is one of my favorite. twain doesn't compare in my opinion. vonnegut either. both stellar, but i like alot of other authors. i like myself.

[Witty]

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
- Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde is my favourite person ever.

[PancakeBrah]

Most people suck.

[Witty]

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.


Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

[Batty]

Sun Tzu
H.G. Wells
Philip K. Dick
Edgar Allen Poe
Stephen King
Alan Moore

[Fart]

who was more goat? lol....

[Wise Wiggles]

Welllll, looks like we got ourselves a reada'...

[Witty]

Welllll, looks like we got ourselves a reada'...

Repped.

[StarFaggot]

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

[Diode]

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

[PancakeBrah]

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-

[Diode]

I THOUGHT OF A WORSE WRITER THAN JOYCE

THE BRONTE SISTERS

WUTHER THIS DICK YOU CUNTS

[PancakeBrah]

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

[StarFaggot]

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

[PancakeBrah]

lol

[Certain]

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

[Diode]

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

kurt was a golden god of the human experience

AND HE WAS IN BACK 2 SCHOOL STARRING RODNEY DANGERFIELD

[PancakeBrah]

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.

[Witty]

If anyone disagrees with me they are wrong.

[big baby]

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 .

[Vulgar]

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

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

[Certain]

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

No one has or ever will.

[oats]

Salman Rushdie
JM Coetzee
Raymond Carver
William Boyd

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

[Sick]

dear wis

dat ass

does she have titties too?

http://www.xvideos.com/video1111703/new_sex_big_ass_workout_by_zaidi_jhelum

[Badweather]

Keats


Chaucer


both beasts

[uh-oh]

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

[Mael]

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).

[Certain]

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

[Mael]

I'm just glad its over with.

[uh-oh]

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

DIOGENES DA GOD circa 370 BC

[Mael]

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

DIOGENES DA GOD circa 370 BC

lol'd irl.

[oats]

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

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.

[dead man]

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..

[oats]

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

[NYCSPITZ]

Na wat is that?

[Vulgar]

Nah.

[oats]

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.

[Certain]

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

[oats]

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