Other Authors

[Alyosha]

How about we go off topic in a different way.

What non-Russian authors do you like the best?

I nominate the naturalists like Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, ...

[Mogwai]

I like to read...

Dickens
C.S. Lewis
Stephen Lawhead
G.K. Chesterton
Ravi Zacharias

...good authors with consistently good books.

[Mitya]

I love anything C.S. Lewis. I read as much as I can find of G.K. Chesterton, and Jane Austen is excellent as well. I only wish she had written more. These three come to mind first, but that is by no means an exhaustive list. Probably a lot of other members will soon reply and I'll have to say, "Oh, yeah, I think _____'s work is teriffic, too!"   Of course, most of my favorite authors are Russian...  

[axon]

My favorites include:
Joseph Conrad
Joyce
Hesse
Poe
Garcia-Marquez
Camus
Twain
and finally Hemingway and Dickens  

[Alyosha]

I like all these others too. Yes it is so hard to decide. Dostoevsky people usually have good taste. It makes me wonder about the Tolstoy or Dostoevsky debate.

[earth]

lovecraft + asimov.

[Golyadkin]

Joseph Heller (Catch-22), F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatzby), Mark Twain/Samuel Clements.

[axon]

>> Joseph Heller (Catch-22)

after reading catch 22 (a long time ago) I was really mesmerized with Heller...the book is simply awesome, and extremely funny. Then I started looking into his other works like God Knows and even Closing Time...and found them to be rather horrible.

BTW, I still remember a certain great passage from catch22 that has stuck with me for all this years. It is when Yossarian is in bed with his superiors wife and they are discussing God...the wife says she is an atheist, but Yossarian eggs her on and his talk is very blasphemous...she then says almost in a rage, something along the lines: "The God in which I don't believe is a good God...is a just God!"

its simply great!  

[Golyadkin]

I remember the passage when they are investigating the chaplin:
"You're an Anabaptist. That's a very suspicious denomination, isn't it?"
"What's suspicious about it?"
"I don't know anything about it, so it's suspicious."

[axon]

yeah the book is great...now I want to read it again...I just remembered when they moved the front's line just on the map, and people got promotions and medals for it...lmao

[Olga Rodionovna]

Orwell, CS Lewis, Yevgeny Yaroshenko, who is technically not a Russian....

[ziusudra]

this seems out of placed because I have merged two threads together...they were both about virtually the same thing, and since this has been made before the replies that have been made for this original hthread, the forum software put it in this spot. - axon

First of all Russian Lİterature is really important for our World Classics library.
 
What do you think about  World Classics novelists? For example "W.Shekespeare" , "Victor Hugo" , "Robert Louis Stevenson" , " Gorki " and "Charles Dickens" or the others....

 Who is your fav. writer in world classics.

Of course Charles Dickens and Franz Kafka are my favorite writers in the world.

[eternalgirlfriend1]

Poe, Faulkner, Hemmingway, Ralph Ellison, and (I'm from SC) Pat Conroy.  He wrote Prince of Tides, Lords of Discipline, Beach Music, Water is Wide,  and The Great Santini.  I doubt most of you have heard of him, although four of his novels have been made into movies.  (Don't bother with the movies, though; the books are so much better!)  

Also, I LOVE ancient Greek and Roman literature, like Homer, Euripedes, Ovid, and Sophocles.

[featherbrain]

Terry Pratchett.

[fyodor_pavlovitch]

OK, I'm about to get hit hard, but I like Steinbeck even more than Dostoyevsky.  When I read a translation, I know that I'm reading the work of two people: Dostoyevsky and the translator.  When I read Steinbeck, I know I'm reading Steinbeck's direct works.  Plus, I identify more with Steinbeck politically.

Other authors I love include Harper Lee (Atticus Finch is my role model), Hemingway, Victor Hugo, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Theodore Dreiser, and W. Somersot Maugham.