re: Who are your five favorite writers off the top of your head?

Posted by Carson123987

Middle Court at the Rec

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Posted on 8/27/16 at 1:47 pm to mouton

William Gibson
Cormac McCarthy
Milton Friedman
Ludwig Von Mises
Ayn Rand

Posted by HempHead

Big Sky Country

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Posted on 8/27/16 at 1:48 pm to Carson123987

quote:
Ludwig Von Mises

If we're allowed to include non-fiction, my list would change dramatically and this genius would be on it.

Posted by Peazey

Metry

Member since Apr 2012

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Posted on 8/27/16 at 1:52 pm to mouton

Asimov
Olaf Stapledon
Frank Herbert
David Foster Wallace
Vonnegut

This post was edited on 8/27/16 at 1:53 pm

Posted by S

RIP Wayde

Member since Jan 2007

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Posted on 8/27/16 at 2:10 pm to mouton

Vonnegut
Hemingway
Bukowski
Albom
King
Salinger

Posted by Carson123987

Middle Court at the Rec

Member since Jul 2011

66414 posts

Posted on 8/27/16 at 2:10 pm to HempHead

quote:
If we're allowed to include non-fiction, my list would change dramatically and this genius would be on it.

My man

Posted by Mars duMorgue

Sunset Dist/SF

Member since Aug 2015

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Posted on 8/27/16 at 2:12 pm to mouton

Poe
Dickens
W.G. Sebald
j.g. ballard
John Kennedy Toole

Posted by The Pirate King

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Posted on 8/27/16 at 2:21 pm to mouton

R.L. Stine
Judy Blume
Dr. Seuss
Eric Carl
The guy who wrote berenstein Bears

Posted by Captain Rumbeard

Member since Jan 2014

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Posted on 8/27/16 at 2:23 pm to mouton

Patrick O'Brian
JRR Tolkien
George RR Martin
Kurt Vonnegut
James Michener

Posted by Tigris

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Member since Jul 2005

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Posted on 8/27/16 at 2:24 pm to mouton

Neal Stephenson
Patrick O'Brian
David Foster Wallace
Robert Heinlein
Mark Helprin

Posted by mouton

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Posted on 8/27/16 at 2:27 pm to The Pirate King

quote:
The guy who wrote berenstein Bears

snoopy for the win

Posted by biglego

Ask your mom where I been

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Posted on 8/27/16 at 2:45 pm to mouton

quote:
How can a list of someone's favorite writers be pretensions? That doesn't make sense.

It just seems like a list of cool authors everyone says they like but no one actually reads.

Posted by ForeverEllisHugh

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Posted on 8/27/16 at 2:49 pm to biglego

DEAN KOONTZ
Stephen King
Poe
Orwell
Rowling

Posted by amabala

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Posted on 8/27/16 at 3:33 pm to mouton

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This post was edited on 7/9/20 at 12:05 am

Posted by JombieZombie

Member since Nov 2009

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Posted on 8/27/16 at 3:44 pm to mouton

Dostoevsky
Lovecraft
Haruki Murakami
Edgar Allan Poe
Chekhov

Posted by Salamander_Wilson

Member since Jul 2015

7679 posts

Posted on 8/27/16 at 3:52 pm to JombieZombie

John Steinbeck
C. S. Lewis
Jules Verne
Bernard Cornwell
Nic McCool

Posted by Supravol22

Member since Jan 2011

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Posted on 8/27/16 at 3:57 pm to mouton

Scalzi
Tolkien
George RR Martin
James S. A. Corey
Clancy

Posted by Buck Magnum

Springdale

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Posted on 8/27/16 at 4:11 pm to mouton

Judy Blume
Whoever Wrote Pokey Little Puppy

Posted by Godfather1

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Posted on 8/27/16 at 5:03 pm to mouton

Leon Uris
John Grisham
F Scott Fitzgerald
Tom Clancy
Mark Twain
Dan Brown

This post was edited on 8/27/16 at 5:04 pm