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J.Brown 06-17-2006 05:18 PM

authors that you have read everything they have written
 
they could be your faves or someone that you were just into at one point in time.

let's make this more reasonable and say virtually everything they have written because i don't want technicalties called on some obscure early work or short story piece.

here is my list, some of it i am proud of, some of it i am not, but i have went through different phases of what i have enjoyed so here goes......and the follow up question, would you read anything new "your" authors put out today if they are still writing?
Craig Clevenger
Bret Easton Ellis
Chuck Palahniuk
Jack Kerouac
David Sedaris
Augusten Burroughs
James Frey
Nick McDonnell
Jay McInerney
Ben Mezrich
David Eggers

that is all i can think of for now. J.

man 06-17-2006 05:57 PM

Re: authors that you have read everything they have written
 
J.D. Salinger.. I think I've read most of what he's published, but that's because he doesn't write anything. the stories I've read:

catcher in the rye
franny
zooey
raise high the roofbeam, carpenters
seymour: an introduction
nine stories

and some story that was published in a magazine about a guy who lives above a girl and listens to music with her. don't remember that one too well, I read it like three years ago.

J.Brown 06-17-2006 05:59 PM

Re: authors that you have read everything they have written
 
i should have added salinger to the list although i think i am missing seymour and the story in the mag.

he is a great author whose total work is easy and enjoyable to cover. cool cool J.

MicroBob 06-17-2006 06:39 PM

Re: authors that you have read everything they have written
 
Salinger is in my list (I think I also read the short-story but can't remember for sure).

Most of Hemingway
Somerset Maughm (the Razor's Edge, Of Human Bondage)
David Sklansky


When I was a kid I read almost all of the Hardy Boys books as well as the Choose Your Own Adventure series.

Andrew Karpinski 06-17-2006 08:59 PM

Re: authors that you have read everything they have written
 
Somerset Maughm is really good, I read an incredible collection of short stories by him. He had this one... it was about a women who was a famous novelist (famous for her use of the semi colon, in a comedic sense) and her husband, who was a dull person (nick named the philiatrist).

It was really, really good.

wheeler 06-17-2006 09:12 PM

Re: authors that you have read everything they have written
 
Neal Stephenson
Vernor Vinge
Ed Miller
Jorge Luis Borges
Oscar Wilde

RunDownHouse 06-17-2006 09:24 PM

Re: authors that you have read everything they have written
 
Cormac McCarthy is one of the few for me.

J.Brown 06-17-2006 10:05 PM

Re: authors that you have read everything they have written
 
what a great author McCarthy is........

i haven't read his new one, but count The Border Trilogy as some of my favorite reading ever.

i was so disappointed in the Horses movie........

good add! J.

raisins 06-17-2006 10:46 PM

Re: authors that you have read everything they have written
 
Cormac McCarthy is one of my favorites as well. His latest novel though is not up to the standard of Blood Meridian or Suttree. Someone made the comment on the Cormac McCarthy forum that he is no longer in the business of writing masterpieces. Perhaps a bit harsh but hard to argue with.

A new play of his was recently performed in Chicago. The audience's reaction was largely favorable. He has another book coming out in a couple of months, this one science fiction. Apparently it's the story of two travellers, one young one old, after some sort of cataclysm.

raisins

Borodog 06-17-2006 11:07 PM

Re: authors that you have read everything they have written
 
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Chuck Palahniuk

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No offense, but I will now assume that I can safely avoid the other authors on your list.


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