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What author is so good that you've read all of their works?

>> No.5057387
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5057387

>>5057373

Hitler

>> No.5057406

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

>> No.5057416

R.L. Stine

>> No.5057459

Why doesn't moot just kill /pol/? Am I missing something here? I'm pretty sure all the predecessors to /pol/ kept getting axed. I like to think that moot got harassed into keeping it alive just so the authorities can study those fascinating specimens squirming around in their own entrapment zone.

>> No.5057470

Completely finished author would be Lewis Carroll.

Although less popular than "Alice" and "Throughout Looking Glass", I consider "Sylvia & Bruno" his best work.

>> No.5057479

>>5057459
Jeudeo-Bolshevik detected. Why do you want to deprive the folk of their speech? Are you intimidated by the truth?

>> No.5057483

>>5057459
So you want ponies, randum kids, tinfoil nuts and all kinds of whacks running around and permanently repudiating what's left of board occasioners?

>> No.5057484

michael crichton is the goat.

>> No.5057493

>>5057459
It's a containment board, why let the animals out of the zoo and into the other boards?

>> No.5057507

>>5057459

It exists for the same reason boards like /mlp/ and /soc/ exist, to contain the disease.

>> No.5057509

>>5057406
no waayyy

>> No.5057510

>>5057459
The problem is not /pol/ but the fact that they get bored and they spill to other boards.They destroyed /int/ and /lit/ will be next

>> No.5057531

>>5057373

Dostoyevsky
Joyce

>> No.5057587

Don't think I've read everything by any particular author but those whose works I've come closest to completing would probably be Hesse and Vonnegut with Steinbeck a distant third.

>> No.5057597

>>5057373
Charles McCarry, though only the core of the Christopher novels resides among the immortals.

>> No.5057603

>>5057373
Louis L'Amour
Dan Simmons
Stephen Donaldson
J.R.R. Tolkien
God

>> No.5057615

Here are authors who I can recall on the spot whose works I have read completely.
-Charles Dickens
-Albert Camus
-Marcel Proust
-David Hume
-Thomas Love Peacock
-William Shakespeare
-Leo Tolstoy
-Thomas Carlyle
-Lord Byron
-Rudyard Kipling
-Oscar Wilde
-Thomas Mann

>> No.5057627

>>5057387
Mai nigga.

>> No.5057630

>>5057507
It's not really containing it very well. As I'm sure you've seen the the /pol/ infection of /sp/ and /tv/. No point keeping a containment board that doesn't contain but instead destroys other boards cultures.

>> No.5057635

>>5057373

I've read the complete works of:
-Faulkner
-O'Connor
-Percy
-McCarthy
-Melville
-Dickens
-C.S Lewis
-Tolkien

There are many, many other writers where i've read the majority of their work but not the complete works. Most notably, Dostoyevsky, Hemingway, and Gene Wolfe.

>> No.5057638

>>5057603
>Dan Simmons

How is Carrion Comfort? I've heard good things and want a solid horror novel.

>> No.5057642

>>5057507
>>5057493
>>5057483
Containment doesn't fucking work. See:

>>5057479
Are you? Are you intimidated by the idea that you're a guinea pig for the NSA's software?

I'm genuinely wondering about moot's behavior, though. He sure as fuck isn't keeping the board up just because he likes you and the containment plan has already failed catastrophically.

>> No.5057650

>>5057416
I actually know him. He works with my student organization

>> No.5057653

>>5057630

>It's not really containing it very well.

Well that's because it's inherent to 4chan. In the same way that there are furry threads on /b/, "post your face and we guess what music you listen to" threads on /mu/, etc. we've just always been prone to this BS. It's just a slight courteous way to shove most of it somewhere else. There was /pol/-style stuff before /pol/ and there always will be so long as there's a 4chan.

>> No.5057654 [SPOILER] 
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5057654

>Tom Pinecone
>Arthur Rimjaub

>> No.5057996

>>5057373
C. Baudelaire. And the vast majority of his work consists of art criticism.

>> No.5058006

>>5057996
I should read that. What art criticism books would you recommend?

>> No.5058011

>>5057373
me. Also
>what

>> No.5058029

>>5057373

Nietzsche, HP Lovecraft, Rimbaud, Homer...

Many other poets/philosophers etc who we only have fragments or one or two works by.

>> No.5058108

Terry Pratchett.
Can't help it, I absorb whatever that man writes/wrote ;_;

>> No.5058111

>>5057996
My favorite book is L'art romantique. It's one of his last work, so the deepness and the bitterness of his writing (after being sued in Belgium) are fully revealed.

>> No.5058117

>>5057638
I have to give it a qualified "it was breddy gud", with the caveat that I'm not a horror fan in general. I just wanted to see how versatile he was.

>> No.5058129

>>5058108
Do you like Brandon Sanderson as well? He's actually alive.

>> No.5058145

>>5058129
I mean, Pratchett doesn't write anymore, as far as I know.
And I've never read anything by Sanderson.

>> No.5058224
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5058224

Kalle-vitun-Päätalo.

Alfoista alfoin, mutta mitäs työ siittä tietäisitte.

>> No.5058228

>>5058145
Sanderson finished Jordan's Wheel of Time; he's outstanding. I think you will love him. I started with the Mistborn trilogy.

>> No.5058258

>>5058228
I haven't read Wheel of Time yet, but from what I've heard Sanderson's ending was considered sub-par by fans of the series, wasn't it?

>> No.5058280

>>5058258
Did he have a chance with the fanbois?

His own work is awesome; the ending, iirc, was compiled from Jordan's own notes.

>> No.5058300

>>5058280
I'll give him a shot then, thanks Anon.

>> No.5058337

David Foster Wallace and Raymond Carver.

>> No.5058422

>>5058228
Not any of the previous anons but would you recommend the Mistborn trilogy to me/anyone? I'm looking into logically coherent magical systems and their possibilities and I;ve heard Sanderson was pretty good with those.

>> No.5059022

>>5057373
>all works
Just novels
Isaac Asimov

>> No.5059052

I read everything Neil Gaiman until his latest. I stopped because he was the guy that got me into "real" literature so now I'm too swamped with that.

>> No.5059056

This is funny because that was one of Tesla's OCDs.

>> No.5059059

I haven't read all their works but there are two authors I'm trying to get through.

Anthony Burgess and Graham Greene. I felt an affinity for their writing style after reading "Earthly Powers" and "The Power and The Glory".

>> No.5059061

>>5059022
Hasn't he written like 200? I've liked all the ones I've read but there's bound to be some bad ones for someone so prolific

>> No.5059069

>>5059061
Not everything is amazing, but i love the way he tangles then plot, while at the end of the book it's like pulling one string and everything is perfectly clear again, all coming together.

I'd love to watch him play chess.

>> No.5059073

>>5059061
Same anon
Foundation, Robot series are my favorite, but i'm sci-fi junkie

>> No.5059075

>>5057373
I've read everything published by Salinger, but he's far from my favorite author. I just went through a phase.

>> No.5059676

>>5059056
Hm?

>> No.5060310

Michael Ende
>tfw people never recognized his serious works because they had him stamped as a childrens book author
>noone gave a damn about visions against the nothing
>noone read mirror in the mirror eventhough it was his best book by far

>> No.5060318

I tried to read everything that JG Ballard wrote, until I realised that he was essentially rehashing exactly the same theme in the last ten years of his life. Try reading Millennium People, Supercannes and Cocaine Nights in a row. I still love his works, though. No one does "modernity run amok" and "the death of the future" quite like Ballard.

>> No.5060390

>>5057603
I read L'Amour's The Walking Drum years ago and loved it, never read anything else of his. What can you tell me about other works of his?

>> No.5060402

>>5057387
>>5057627

>5edgy6me

>> No.5060410

DFW

He's just so brilliant. Though I haven't read Broom of the System

>> No.5060436

>>5057650
Grew up with Goosebumps. Actually refused to keep reading The Horror at Camp Jelly Jam because I couldn't handle it at ~8 years old. Wish I knew him just so I could give him daps for his role in my affinity for reading.

>> No.5060455

>>5057373
Hamann, but he hasn't written much or whatever has been translated in my language isn't more than 400 pages.

>>5057509
Hegel is easy, when you get to know his logic and self-reflexing geist. Those big tomes will be a breeze after that.

>> No.5060478

>>5057615
>thomas love peacock
>no way that is an actual name
>wikipedia
>damn he wrote some neat shit
ty bro

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5060486

>>5057635
Favorite works by McCarthy and Faulkner?

>> No.5060499

>>5060436
Is that the one that where the camp was a training-place for kids that were to be send to Earth? I remember I read that when I used to live in America.

>> No.5060734

No, that's Welcome to Camp Nightmare (IMO one of the best). Camp Jelly Jam is where the kids who won various competitions are secretly taken prisoner to tend to some nasty jelly monster thing.

>> No.5060737

>>5060734
This was meant for you
>>5960499

>> No.5060738

>>5060737
Fuck me sideways, meant for >>5060499

>> No.5060744

I think I've read all of Walter Moers' books

They're pretty much the only "fantasy" books I like, practically no Tolkien clichés, and they're all so comfy

>> No.5060754

>>5057615
What did you think of The Cossacks and The Devil by Tolstoy?

Or about The Soul of Man under Socialism by Wilde?

Also, Dickens, Shakespeare, Byron, Wilde.. How many crumpets do you eat a day?

>> No.5060761

Harper Lee

>> No.5060776

john green

>> No.5060785

All of you Brandon Sanderson/Tolkien loons should read 'The Book of the New Sun' by Gene Wolfe. Also Elric of Melnibone.

>> No.5061493

>>5060486
>Favorite works by McCarthy and Faulkner?

McCarthy
>The Crossing
BM gets all they hype (and it's well deserved) but I felt like The Crossing is McCarthy's most complete and cohesive narrative he's ever written. He actually has a clear message in The Crossing and it's actually surprisingly hopeful (for McCarthy at least). It's also very Catholic.

Faulkner
>Absalom! Absalom!
I almost put Light in August but Absalom! Absalom! is Faulkner's pinnacle achievement. It's scope is grand and sweeping, it covers a significant amount of time, and Sutpen is Faulkner's greatest character IMO.

>> No.5061626

>>5057642
Bet you have a high-pitched, feminine voice

>> No.5061658

h murakami
raymond carver
flannery o'connor
kenzaburo oe
natsume soseki

>> No.5061671

>>5061658
oops add cormac mccarthy to this list. read everything except maybe 1 or 2 books left.

>> No.5061689

Haruki Murakami (A big mistake reading them back to back)

I read every Cormac McCarthy and Ernest Hemingway book back to back and it was incredible but horribly depressing. I read Winnie the Pooh when I finished for something light. Great book.

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5062036

Kafka.
Pessoa.
And...

>>5057635
>>5061658
>O'Connor

noice
mah niggers (said in a redneck racist accent, not black)

>> No.5062330
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5062330

I've read everything but Cormac McCarthy with the exception of The Orchard Keeper. Put that one down halfway through.

>> No.5062372

I love Jane Austen. <3 Now I'm reading John Steinbeck.

>> No.5062377

>>5061493
>read all of McCarthy's works
>Suttree isn't your favorite
Someone didn't read them all

>> No.5062379

>>5060754
I feel that The Cossacks is one of his best works and is underrated, I found The Devil to be pretty good too.

I am not a huge reader of political writings to be honest, but I did appreciate many of Wilde's points despite it being quite utopian in sentiment.

I am English.

>> No.5062397

>>5062330
I struggled with it but I'm glad I finished it. Good ending. It did feel a little like he felt he had something to prove and his prose was perhaps a little ornate at times it didn't need to be but its brilliantly written.

>> No.5062398

>>5057470
Did you read his Calculus textbooks too?

>> No.5062413

>>5057635
>Percy

Walker Percy?

>> No.5064547

>>5057373
Balzac
Faulkner
Proust
Roth
Updike
Zola

>> No.5064567

>>5061493
What's your opinion about Faulkner's "A Fable"?

>> No.5064570

>>5057603
>Dan Simmons

Utterly disgusting. Unsuscribe from 4chan.com

>> No.5064572

>>5057635
>-Faulkner
Nice. Even Mosquitoes and Pylon?

>> No.5064573

>>5064547
Read >>5064567

>> No.5064582

Tao Lin, Richard Adams, Richard Yates.

>> No.5064593

I've read all Raymond Chandler's novels and stories. I've also got just one more Richard Yates book to read (A Special Providence), then I'll have completed all of his published works.

>>5064582
Have you seen the excerpt from Yates' unpublished last novel, Uncertain Times? The website it used to be on has gone, but Google has it cached:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Ccw-J80J330J:www.richardyates.org/bib_uncertain.html

>> No.5065185

>>5058108
>>5058129
>>5058145

>Wait, Pratchett is dead? He was alive last I checked

>Google him

>find out he has Alzheimer's and is currently trying to kill himself painlessly

Fuck. I didn't ask for these feels.