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Who Is The Greatest Writer?

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#41 - 2014-06-04 18:33:46 UTC
Dorian Tormak wrote:
Slade Trillgon wrote:
I personally think Clive Barker is as good as or better than Stephen King, but I am typically called a heretic for saying that Lol

Just had to throw that single comment out there as I like a majority of the authors presented so far.

I also spit on my screen from laughter at some of the posts above as well.

What's a good book by Clive Barker? I tried reading Imajica a few years back but that was too much for me at the time.

I will probably look out for both Catch 22 and the Dirk Gently (Dirk Diggler?) series. Wait wtf is Dirk Diggler? For some reason I thought that was off of Red Dwarf.

Ok. It's Dwayne Dibbley off of Red Dwarf. Dwayne Dibbley. Lol classic.


Dirk Diggler is the main character from the film "Boogie Nights".

I think it's nap-time for you.

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#42 - 2014-06-04 21:28:31 UTC
Removed some off topic posts.

Also, I'm a pretty big fan of Neil Gaiman.

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#43 - 2014-06-04 22:05:06 UTC
ISD Dorrim Barstorlode wrote:
Removed some off topic posts.

Also, I'm a pretty big fan of Neil Gaiman.


"American Gods" freaking rocked.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Dorian Tormak
RBON United
#44 - 2014-06-04 23:56:48 UTC
Discussing my beauty rest might be considered off topic. Just saying.

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JetCord
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#45 - 2014-06-05 01:40:45 UTC
quite hard to say as writers has their own genre that they are quite good at
Ila Dace
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#46 - 2014-06-05 02:56:43 UTC
Dorian Tormak wrote:
Discussing my beauty rest might be considered off topic. Just saying.

Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently novels are also. Sigh.

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Glasgow Kiss Enterprises
#47 - 2014-06-05 06:34:10 UTC
OP, I am disappointed.
You rate Shakespeare so highly and yet, no mention of Robert Burns Sad

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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#48 - 2014-06-05 14:12:35 UTC  |  Edited by: Khergit Deserters
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
Dorian Tormak wrote:
Geez guys, there's too many authors listed here for me to even bother looking up, nevermind reading them all :p

Guess I got a lot of work to do. Where to start though? I'd like to give Douglas Adams another try to be honest. I wonder how the books compare to the movie.

Currently reading A Dance With Dragons, Wizard and Glass, and The Living Dead Featuring Stories by Clive Barker and other big names. Going to add one more books to the pile so I will have a look around next time I go out.

Well I'll cut out most of my author's and recommend

Joseph Heller's "Catch 22"

as an absolute priority.
Not only is it the source of the phrase, it's probably one of the funniest books you're ever likely to read .

Catch-22 another great one. The movie is excellent, too. Actually that's the only movie I can remember that really matched the mood of the book, and was about as good.

One more: Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Is it a novel? Is it a philosophical treatise? It kind of goes back and forth either way.

OK, make that two more: Hermann Hesse. Hundreds of pages of story that is mostly about a character's internal mental landscape. Yes, his writing is about as heavy as it sounds, but it's pretty amazing.
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#49 - 2014-06-05 14:15:26 UTC
Jim Butcher is my current fave.

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Doreen Kaundur
#50 - 2014-06-05 15:53:42 UTC
Aesop

and

Dr Seuss

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