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Anonymous Fri Apr 28 10:31:45 2017 No.9438538 [Reply] [Original]

Who are some writers who are consistently good or great?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 10:33:09 2017 No.9438544 L. Ron. Hubbard.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 10:33:55 2017 No.9438547 >>9438538 Shakespeare Dostoevsky Nabokov Eliot These are the only writers I've read enough of -- that meet the criteria -- to make a judgement on.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 10:37:02 2017 No.9438557 Khaled hosseini

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 10:38:05 2017 No.9438561 >>9438544 >>9438547 What is the secret to consistency? Must you always abandon what made you successful in the first place and change for the better?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 10:38:32 2017 No.9438565 >>9438538 William Gass is consistently good.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 10:46:15 2017 No.9438590 >>9438547 >Shakespeare >Consistent quality Oke dokes. Proust is pretty consistent.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 10:46:57 2017 No.9438592 >>9438538 Joyce, and the levels of greatness increase with every work.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 10:49:08 2017 No.9438597 >>9438538 Faulkner is consistently great

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 10:50:21 2017 No.9438601 >>9438538 John Kennedy Toole

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 10:56:37 2017 No.9438611 >>9438590 OP said consistently good or great, which Shakespeare is. Some plays are good and some are great. I agree they aren't all consistently as great as Hamlet or Lear, but they are all good.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 10:59:25 2017 No.9438616 >>9438561 There is no one secret. Dostoevsky maintained and improved his strengths, writing in a similar way about different philosophical problems or events. While Eliot almost completely changed his style a few times.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 11:01:11 2017 No.9438622 >>9438601 He only wrote 2 books and most people have only read 1

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 11:07:54 2017 No.9438638 David Foster Wallace

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 11:10:31 2017 No.9438645 File: 180 KB, 1134x848, ezra-pound-1939.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9438538 Ezra Pound also, Ted Hughes

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 11:28:31 2017 No.9438680 Bolaño

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 12:36:08 2017 No.9438854 >>9438616 Woah

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 12:46:09 2017 No.9438883 John Updike. Don DeLillo.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 12:47:12 2017 No.9438890 Bret Easton Ellis. Not kidding.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 13:23:01 2017 No.9439001 >>9438597 The Sound and The Fury is unreadable

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 13:32:57 2017 No.9439037 Lazlo Krasznahorkai Claudio Magris Yoko Tawada

Anonymous Fri Apr 28 13:33:48 2017 No.9439041

Chester Himes
Langston Hughes
Clarence Major
James Baldwin
Clarence Cooper Jr
Iceberg Slim
Toni Morrison
Claudia Rankine
Thomas Bernhard
Dambudzo Marechera
Terrance Hayes
William S. Burroughs
Douglas Kearney
Richard Brautigan
Dennis Cooper
Ishmael Reed (to some extent)
Nathaniel Mackey
Percival Everett
Amiri Baraka
Joy Williams
Samuel R Delany
Zora Neale Hurston

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 13:48:51 2017 No.9439089 >>9438561 >secret to consistency For Hubbard, his secret was "rough draft = final draft"

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 14:03:58 2017 No.9439139 >>9439089 Sticking with it?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 14:05:20 2017 No.9439144 >>9438645 >two actual instances of poets who fucked better poets than themselves

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 14:52:10 2017 No.9439271 >>9439001 For you. Those of us that are not brainlets absolutely love it.

Anonymous Fri Apr 28 15:04:07 2017 No.9439310
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>>9439041
Are you an African American studies? Not trolling, I just don't see Everett on anyone's list outside MFA programs.

Great list though. No one on lit acknowledges Morrison too

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 15:06:10 2017 No.9439320 Hamsun Flaubert

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 15:12:42 2017 No.9439345 Yukio Mishima August Wilson Ray Bradbury Mark Twain Jericho Brown Samuel Delaney Roberto Bolano John Berryman And of course Pynchon, I love his stoner comedies

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 00:35:46 2017 No.9441037 MNM-DR

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 06:11:08 2017 No.9441678 >>9438622 I can't imagine the neon bible is particularly good seeing as he was just 16 when he wrote it. Anyone know if it is worth reading out of anything other than curiosity?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 06:24:23 2017 No.9441696 Gaddis

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 08:26:32 2017 No.9441914 >>9441696 This

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 08:44:06 2017 No.9441952 Faulkner and Gaddis are consistently great.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 09:16:16 2017 No.9441990 >>9438538 I'm 2.5 books into a Bernhard binge and he's been consistent so far.

Anonymous Sat Apr 29 11:18:10 2017 No.9442249

>>9438590
Possibly the worst answer.
I severely doubt you've ever read Proust, something he's famous for is having 10 or so pages of angelic clarity and then 100 pages of mud.

Seriously, there are some points in Lost Time that go on for more than ~120 pages where absolutely nothing happens in the plot and he's just describing random shit around him. Which are agonizing to read btw.

>>9438565
William Gass is consistently William Gass

>>9438883
John Updike became absolutely shit around the end of his life

Would agree with Nabokov, Faulkner, Dostoevsky and also add Rilke

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 11:33:33 2017 No.9442292 >>9438611 >they are all good no theyre not.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 11:36:51 2017 No.9442304 >>9439271 kek

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 11:40:31 2017 No.9442316 >>9441990 that makes me happy, i read the loser quite a while ago, and it made an impression on me, it's one of the few books i can remember from that period in my life. which ones have you read?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 11:42:18 2017 No.9442323 >>9438538 William S. Burroughs, with the exception of Dead Fingers Talk. Thomas Ligotti Georges Bataille Richard Brautigan Kafka Nabokov Joyce, who just got better and better Harlan Ellison Eça De Queiros Ballard Hemmingway

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 12:54:34 2017 No.9442528 >>9439144 who did Pound fuck? H.D.?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 12:59:00 2017 No.9442537 >>9442528 What about Rimbaud fucking Verlaine

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 13:02:44 2017 No.9442551 >>9438561 "There is no method but to be very intelligent." – T.S. Eliot

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 13:03:49 2017 No.9442555 >>9438645 >Ezra Pound >consistent Fucking wew

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 13:05:44 2017 No.9442561 >>9439345 Pynchon's quality varies really fucking hard tho. GR is great, Crying of Lot 49 is shit, and those two are in sequence.

Anonymous Sat Apr 29 13:44:59 2017 No.9442716

>>9442561
The Crying of Lot 49 is his worst novel (besides, maybe, Bleeding Edge) and psueds who couldn't get through his masterpieces try to talk about it as if it's perfect, because they were forced to read it in school. It's the only Pynchon most people were able to finish, so it gets talked about far too often.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 13:46:31 2017 No.9442722 >>9438547 Nabokov and Eliot are bad. Especially Eliot.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 13:52:24 2017 No.9442742 File: 362 KB, 1106x1012, 1493488344165.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9438538 Nietzsche Flaubert Goethe Balzac Tennyson

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 13:53:10 2017 No.9442747 Alain-Fournier

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 13:54:21 2017 No.9442753 >>9442742 Good post.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 14:39:01 2017 No.9442880 >>9442716 >>9442561 >crying of lot 49 is shit What in the fuck are you two smoking

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 15:29:42 2017 No.9443045 >>9438883 >Updike I admire him but have you really read all his books? Poetry, criticism and all that. I've only read 8 or 9 of his novels and some of them were pretty weak

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 16:33:06 2017 No.9443290 >>9442880 I said it's his worst novel. Worst Pynchon is better than most shit out there, but basically every other book he wrote is much better. Are you one of those short book only pussies?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 19:29:20 2017 No.9443956 >>9442747 Lol

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 19:39:48 2017 No.9443981 Goethe, Tolstoy. Born on the same day as well.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 19:44:36 2017 No.9443987 >>9442880 You're completely right, CL49 is great.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 19:59:42 2017 No.9444019 >>9443987 Further proving the point that most people stop reading Pynchon after they finish his shortest book.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 20:01:50 2017 No.9444028 >>9442292 Excellent contribution

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 20:57:32 2017 No.9444240 My nigga Lawrence Durrell. Everything I've read is great including his travelling books

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 20:59:33 2017 No.9444247 >>9444019 I read that, Gravity's Rainbow, and Mason and Dixon.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 20:59:37 2017 No.9444248 File: 14 KB, 286x289, wbyeats.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 21:10:42 2017 No.9444287 >>9444019 this dude is unironically jerking off to tome memes in front of everyone

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 29 21:18:40 2017 No.9444323 >>9444287 Nope, I just think that's his worst novel. Inherent Vice was better.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 30 05:14:31 2017 No.9445584 Kurt Vonnegut

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 30 05:39:15 2017 No.9445632 File: 1.81 MB, 2951x4056, Charles_Dickens_sketch_1842[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This qt3.14

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 30 05:49:49 2017 No.9445653 >>9438557 this isn't even funny as a joke

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 30 06:59:39 2017 No.9445793 >>9438538 Goonan

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