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Old 11-25-2012, 06:12 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I've scanned all 30 or so pages of the "Media" section and couldn’t find any threads regarding ‘favorite authors’, and the search function wasn’t bringing up anything either.

Who are some of your favorite authors, and what is your favorite work from each?

Plenty more to list, but to break it down, as of now...

1. Charles Bukowski - "You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense "
2. Aleister Crowley - "Diary of a Drug Fiend"
3. Lewis Carroll - "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass"
4. Edgar Allan Poe - "The Premature Burial"
5. Sylvia Plath – “The Bell Jar"
6. Charles Baudelaire - "The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays"
7. William Blake - "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
8. Stephen King - "Secret Window, Secret Garden"
9. John Milton – “Paradise Lost”
10. Albert Camus - "The Myth of Sisyphus"
11. Christopher Hitchens – “Hitch-22”
12. Dante Alighieri – “La Vita Nuova”
13. Robert Frost - "Acquainted with the Night"
14. Brothers Grimm - "Children's and Household Tales"
15. Oscar Wilde - "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
16. C.S. Lewis – “The Screwtape Letters”
17. Alexander Dumas - "The Count of Monte Cristo"
18. H.P. Lovecraft - "The Dreams in the Witch House"
19. Hunter S. Thompson - "Screwjack & Other Stories"
20. Walt Whitman – “Leaves of Grass”[/B]

Other favorites
1. Samuel Beckett – “Waiting For Godot”
2. Neil Gaiman - “Coraline”
3. Kenneth Grahame - "The Wind and the Willows"
4. Bret Easton Ellis - "Less Than Zero"
5. George Orwell – “1984”
6. André Breton - "Surrealist Manifesto"
7. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – “The Sorrows of Young Werther”
8. Hubert Selby Jr. - "Requiem for a Dream"
9. Friedrich Nietzsche - "Human, All Too Human"
10. Raymond Carver - "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?"
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