Authors you've never read but should have...

[UberNeuman]

Never read anything by Harlan Ellison - but I know i should have....

 

[TecHNooB]

i'm illiterate

 

[ShawnD1]

I hear Atlas Shrugged makes compelling arguments for why we should go back to the days of serfdom

 

[UberNeuman]

I hear Atlas Shrugged makes compelling arguments for why we should go back to the days of serfdom

Ann Ryan - another author I've never read, but should have...

 

[Tweak155]

Can it be one that I have now read but wish I did earlier?

Either way, Napolean Hill.

 

[dawp]

My son, tho he ain't published yet.

 

[Arcadio]

William Shakespeare.

 

[zerocool84]

None, I hate reading books.

 

[UberNeuman]

None, I hate reading books.

you should - the Stieg Larsson books are a good read...

 

[arrfep]

William Shakespeare.

You're probably joking, but in the past two years I finally got around to reading about 7 or 8 of Shakespeare's plays that I'd Clif's Notes'd my way through in high school. And I loved them. I consider Hamlet to be among my favorite pieces of literature.

To answer the OP, I want to go back and read all the authors that I avoided reading in high school, all the classics. Fitzgerald, Hemingway, etc.

 

[ShawnD1]

You're probably joking, but in the past two years I finally got around to reading about 7 or 8 of Shakespeare's plays that I'd Clif's Notes'd my way through in high school. And I loved them. I consider Hamlet to be among my favorite pieces of literature.

Most obvious trolling attempt in ATOT history? It's a book about nothing. Father is killed, then about 600 pages of nothing, then everybody dies. The Simpsons managed to condense the entire thing to about 10 minutes and they missed literally nothing. Every major event in the book was covered in those 10 minutes.

here's the simpsons doing a classy song that is much better than Hamlet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PyBWLALFLQ&playnext=1&list=PL6660E514632C0DBF

 

[Locut0s]

Too many to list. But I don't know what you mean by should have, not like my life is over. Anyway a few off the top of my head.

Dickens
Tolstoy
Hemingway
Austen
George Elliot
Forster

 

[drebo]

Newer author, but I really like Patrick Rothfuss' first book, and I'm very much looking forward to book 2.

 

[Locut0s]

Most obvious trolling attempt in ATOT history? It's a book about nothing. Father is killed, then about 600 pages of nothing, then everybody dies. The Simpsons managed to condense the entire thing to about 10 minutes and they missed literally nothing. Every major event in the book was covered in those 10 minutes.

here's the simpsons doing a classy song that is much better than Hamlet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PyBWLALFLQ&playnext=1&list=PL6660E514632C0DBF

I could say the same of your post. Maybe you don't like Shakespeare, that's fine, but it's a great work of literature no question about it.

 

[Malak]

How can I say an author is worth reading if I hadn't read them yet? I certainly wish I had read Tolstoy 10 years ago.

 

[Kirby]

Ayn Rand is the only one I can think of off the top of my head.

I'd like to give Dickens and Dostoevsky another try too. Didn't care for them too much in high school.

 

[paperfist]

How do you know you should have read them if you never read them before...?

 

[zinfamous]

I read a shit ton, but I've never read Hemingway. Fuck, I even have an English degree.

:hmm:

 

[Locut0s]

I read a shit ton, but I've never read Hemingway. Fuck, I even have an English degree.

:hmm:

He doesn't have quite the reputation of some of the greats but seriously how do you have an English degree AND read a shit ton and not have read him? I started For whom the bell tolls but didn't finish it.

 

[Locut0s]

How do you know you should have read them if you never read them before...?

Seriously?

 

[zinfamous]

He doesn't have quite the reputation of some of the greats but seriously how do you have an English degree AND read a shit ton and not have read him? I started For whom the bell tolls but didn't finish it.

well, he certainly does have a reputation. Dude does have a Nobel prize, you know.

I have a few books on the shelf but...just never got around to it, I guess. :\

 

[Locut0s]

well, he certainly does have a reputation. Dude does have a Nobel prize, you know.

I have a few books on the shelf but...just never got around to it, I guess. :\

I wasn't saying he doesn't have a fantastic reputation, and deservedly so. I just thought that he tends not to be ranked with say Dostoevsky etc... I could be entirely wrong but I thought that there was something of a bias against him, probably not deserved?

 

[zinfamous]

I wasn't saying he doesn't have a fantastic reputation, and deservedly so. I just thought that he tends not to be ranked with say Dostoevsky etc... I could be entirely wrong but I thought that there was something of a bias against him, probably not deserved?

He is more or less the soul of a literary movement, the Lost Generation--or at least, it's msot popular member. TS Eliot, Ezra Pound are better writers, I'd say, and maybe it was Hemingway's rather simplistic style that turns people away from him who want to be turned away.

I'd put him above someone like Raymond Carver who gets a lot of hip and trendy love--but was heavily edited. It's hard to say what Raymond Carver actually wrote because the influence of his disturbingly domineering editor was so fucking ridiculous throughout his career. (I mention him, because his fans strike me as the type of people who would hate Hemingway, I don't know) Looking at some of Carver's actual manuscripts...it was like Britney Spears without auto tune.


seriously. lol.

 

[Locut0s]

Fair enough. My bad.

He is more or less the soul of a literary movement, the Lost Generation--or at least, it's msot popular member. TS Eliot, Ezra Pound are better writers, I'd say, and maybe it was Hemingway's rather simplistic style that turns people away from him who want to be turned away.

I'd put him above someone like Raymond Carver who gets a lot of hip and trendy love--but was heavily edited. It's hard to say what Raymond Carver actually wrote because the influence of his disturbingly domineering editor was so fucking ridiculous throughout his career. (I mention him, because his fans strike me as the type of people who would hate Hemingway, I don't know) Looking at some of Carver's actual manuscripts...it was like Britney Spears without auto tune.


seriously. lol.

Z

 

[destrekor]

Dostoevsky, for sure. One day I even hope to be able to read one of his works in his native tongue. Right now I'd be able to understand the basic premise, but would be utterly lost in the details.

Other than that, probably some American/British classical authors... but most essentially "classical" stories are rather boring to me. I can read them, but hardly a compelling page-turner.

Currently, having a great time enjoying Frank Herbert's wonderful Dune series (currently reading Heretics of Dune). After I finish his original series, I haven't decided which author is going to get my attention next. I think I will come around to read Brain Herbert's approach to the Dune universe, specifically the two novels that complete the original storyline. Prequels... maybe.