Reasons For choices of Greatest Authors of ALL time
Here we go guys my reasons... gimme yours!
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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
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
