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Reasons For choices of Greatest Authors of ALL time

Here we go guys my reasons... gimme yours!

May 21, 2004 7:28:11 PM from JoeUser ForumsJoeUser Forums
I must admit this is the funnest article I have done of recent because of so much user feed back, it really fun and exciting to see what you guys think of the book and lit you have read..
Okay heres my reasons for my choices and again I encourage you to comment and gimme your reason I really dont care how long your comments are Im gonna read every one of them... make them long make them short matters not to me... their your comments and its what you think

Dante: This should be a no brainer, The La Commedia Divina is so amazing in its symbolism, not to mention I get my poetic scheme from Dante.. hes like the father of my poetry Anyway even the style in which the epic was layed out is phenominal, how it goes to rugged verses to true showing of poetic flare, I just wish I would have learned Italian when I had the chance so I could read the true texted of it... The Commedia is so great in my mind that I literaly have Three serperate copies of it, Ciardi, Mandelbaum (my favorite version) and then a copy edited by Mark Musa. The poetic flow of the epic is mind blowing... the set up the symbolisim, the morality of it, the characters... Dante may have been banished from Florence but who gives a shit they lost not us! La Vita Nuova... where he goes from narrative to sonnets is great too, though long still its good because it is his first published work.

Homer: Why Should I even have to explain this one, come on The Iliad, bad ass war story ever... fuckers get slaughted by the thousands! And then you have the follow up The Odyssey... where a general make a trek back home that takes him for fucking ever... but then he gets home and owns all them ass-monkeys in his kingdom... Not to metion he did it all in poetry... now thats skill.

Bierce: This man did mor to shape my writing style in short fiction than anyone on the list. Not to mention Occurrence has one of the most awesome ending I have ever read

Tolstoi: An epic novel of the destrution of 5 families not one not 2 but 5 and the scene with the drunk dude and the bear was funny as hell too! But most of Tolstois works are fucking good, just the way he portrays human reality and emotion in the books that he has written.

Kafka: Anything I say about Kafka here would just fuck it up!

Faulkner: A fluidity with words that I can only hope to reach and only then in my dreams. A Rose For Emily is also a good short fiction by him... I think I own more Faulkner than any other author.

Milton: A man lending more to Christian Mythology than most can in two life times.

Poe: Even when I was in the 5th grade and reading Poe that one story has stood out through the years.

Salinger: Its all about the unforgetable ending and he captured that so well in Bananafish its almost beyond words.

Steinbeck: This story is so good I actually sneaked into a theature to see it preformed on stage and it was well worth it.

Those are my reasons... so guys get the lead out your ass and gimme your!

Thomas
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Reply #1 May 21, 2004 8:04:13 PM
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Interesting choices...interesting in how many wouldn't be on my list...hahahah, j/k. Actually though, I
like to see anybody writing about authors and writing. I agree with you on Dante and Salinger,
"Franny and Zooey," fucking amazing and funny, and even Steinbeck. I have, sadly enough, not
managed to get through any Tolstoi, Kafka or Faulkner. Tolstoi's the only one I'm sorry about though
because I have every intention of reading Kafka at some point.

Author's I like? I recently wrote a blog on favorite females which included Sappho, Toni Morrison,
Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson and Simone de Beauvoir. I'm also a big fan of Hemingway, which
I came to in recent years, and Jack Kerouac which I, naturally, came to in my early years. Kurt Vonnegut
is completely kick ass, William Styron is great. Oh and what about SHAKESPEARE!!!! Ok, and after
putting the pretentiously obvious one on I have to admit to finding a guilty pleasure in Stephen King,
that I can actually defend but that's a whole other topic.
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Reply #2 May 21, 2004 8:25:50 PM
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I don't really have favorite authors. .... I can usually find something good about anyone I read.

I love books ..all books ..any books.

I will read anything .....my name is Jess and I'm a reading addict

Damn ..I have been known to read everything on a cereal box at breakfast time ..cause that was all that was available.

But I find this dicussion fascinating and am writing a list of authors.

Btw ...just in case you think I am a total ignoramous. ..I have read quite a few of the mentioned authors. What I read kinda depends on my mood at the time.

Jess
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Reply #3 May 23, 2004 7:16:53 AM
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Well I will say this... I have been compared to many great writers... why... its beyond me... I will never consider myself great or astounding... I never will but to peak your curiousity... why no shakespeare... nothing of his astounds me... none of it... and why... maybe because I have been compared to him in my poetry... dont ask me why... I write Terza Rimas... not sonnets... as for others that I have been compared to King, Beirce, certain realist... strangely enough Faulkner... I guess its my more poetic prose I have done... but as for being this astounding writer... me never. But we will find out if Im any good of a story teller soon enough... seems people want to read a new novelette that I will be writing on here almost exclusively called, "The Masquerade"
I thank you for your comment Sarah.

Thomas

And Jessica... Im still waiting on that List babygirl... Im curious as hell and I would like to see it before you go on vacation
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Reply #4 May 23, 2004 8:06:45 AM
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Hey, any of you guys read time out of mind? It was a collection of short stories by Pierre Boulle. I really liked the way that he made his readers think deeply about whatever he is writing about.

Anyway i think ill try to finish dantes divine comedy since you think its a nice read.

Sarah: ive read a few of virginia woolf's essays but never one of her books. Are the books as good as her essays?
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Reply #5 May 23, 2004 10:36:34 AM
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Edmund you posses a good question there.... that makes me think... when writers arent really writing so to speak but are being essayist does thier ability to write rationally, as to writing fiction which in a way I find as writing ill-rationally because of the fluidity of the words, shine through or is it blantant and are the words in perfect par with grammar and structure?

As for you reading Dantes La Commedia.... Edmund, I am honored that you would read that because I said it was a good read.

Thomas
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