Top Five Novelist - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Kurt Vonnegut

Joseph Heller

James Joyce

Sigrid Undset

Cormac McCarthy

Next five

David Foster Wallace

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Leo Tolstoy

Henry Fielding

Charles Dickenson

Edited by omphaloskepsis - November 19 2022 at 07:39

Vompatti wrote:

Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Aksel Sandemose
Halldór Laxness
Flann O'Brien
Timo K. Mukka

Wow ... now I have to look up some more reading! Clap

Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
www.pedrosena.com

rushfan4 wrote:

...

I tend to be mostly into pop horror stories ...

...

Hi,

(horror/gothic stories)

Try some of these ... as some of the stories are actually short stories. Mostly old stuff, but gives you an idea where it all started. Horace Walpole (The Castle of Otranto) and Ann Radcliffe (Mysteries of Udolpho) are the ones usually associated with the start of the stories in horror. My thoughts are that the Catholic Church in Europe destroyed most of it, and made sure that the writers (before then) were all burned alive. For being witches and warlocks, of course!

Mary Shelley's book is the best known, and no one ever read the book, which is far better than any film, and gives you very different ideas about the actual story.

The Marquis de Sade is here, mostly because of the horrors in France at that time, which are believed to have influenced a lot of the "horror story" ideas, and added a lot more blood to it.

Victor Hugo, ends up being a clean up of the whole thing, but it really is about the horrors of an upper class and all that.

Sheridan Le Fanu, was probably more ripped off and copied than all the others. He had the first vampire story with 2 women.

Matthew Gregory Lewis wrote, by very far. one of the most incredibly sick and horrendous story ever ... and to even read what the maggots do is ... something that is hard to contemplate.

Bram Stoker you know more than the others, although the novel is better ... it is written in DIARY format all the way to the end, and is much more suspenseful than any film.

Lord Polidori, was one of the folks with Mary, Percy and Byron, and they all created "horror stories" to entertain each other until one day Mary wrote one that ... got them all running. He was a doctor, and his stuff is gory.

Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto

Mary Shelley - Frankenstein

Marquis de Sade - Justine

Victor Hugo - Hunchback of Notre Dame

John Keats - La Belle Sans Merci ... and maybe Isabella

Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas, Carmilla

Matthew Gregory Lewis - The Monk

Edgar Allan Poe - Various

Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Bram Stoker - Dracula, The Lair of the White Worm

Lord Polidori - Vampyr

Edited by moshkito - November 19 2022 at 07:05

Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
www.pedrosena.com

Archisorcerus wrote:

In random order:

Thomas Hardy
Robert Louis Stevenson
Charles Dickens
Clive Barker
Ursula K. Le Guin

I have to add John Fowles and Stephen King also, perhaps. Anyways, I don't have fixed lists in virtually anything.

In order to avoid this thread showing the posters about how cultivated they are, I won't speak of historic writers and I am only going to list authors that are still alive (no order)

Claude Courchay (ftr)

Amélie Nothomb (Bel)

William Deverell (Can)>> though his latest prods are not interesting anymore

Jonathan Coe (UK)

I'm not sure I want (or could in all honesty) to list a fifth

.

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

James Herbert

Andrew Martin (Railway Detective series)

Magnus Mills

Peter Ackroyd

Joseph O'Connor

Bubbling under: Caleb Carr

Special mention: S.E. Hinton, whose "That Was Then, This Is Now" was the first novel I read, when I was 13 and it was given to us at school. A fantastic book.

Top classic writer: H.G.Wells

Edited by LAM-SGC - October 29 2022 at 14:14

MortSahlFan wrote:

Guy Guden wrote:

geekfreak wrote:

Guy Guden wrote:

a tip of the hat to The Dark Elf & Cosmiclawnmower for their choices... (Eco, Hugo, Hesse, Peake, Vonnegut Jr.) I would ramble with, also in no order:

Aldous Huxley

Goethe

Voltaire

Casanova

Simone de Beauvoir

Vladimir Nabokov

Salman Rushdie

Milan Kundera

Ray Bradbury

John Wyndham

A.E. Van Vogt

Edgar Allan Poe

E.R. Eddison

Horace Walpole

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ann Radcliffe

Mary Shelley

Sheridan Le Fanu

Roald Dahl

Jules Verne

my apologies for giving four times the amount... blissful reading everyone. thank you.

Outstanding list truly outstanding.

thank you kindly, geekfreak...

I love to read biographies as well. currently reading JACQUES TATI by David Bellos. also political observation, philosophy & learned discussion. 2 books in this category I am reading as well, include MIDNIGHT IN WASHINGTON by Adam Schiff & THE TAROT PRIMER by Deborah Carter Mastelotto, who happens to be married to Pat Mastelotto, drummer of KING CRIMSON & STICK MEN. thank you again.

I just got that book, despite never seeing his movies. I tried to finish "Playtime", but maybe in the future. But 99% of what I read are biographies, and I especially love autobiographies.

so true MortSahlFan, so true...

well written biographies are literally mesmerizing. time travelling. and my choice of subjects is extremely varied. biography of writers is always fascinating, along with most artists in some manner. infinite curiosity is the motivator. recent biographies that come to mind include the director Josephy Losey, Nazimova, the letters of Simone de Beauvoir to Nelson Algren & the letters of Lotte Lenya to Kurt Weill & Burgess Meredith,

thank you again, all dear readers.

https://twitch.tv/guygudenspacepirateradio

geekfreak wrote:

Guy Guden wrote:

a tip of the hat to The Dark Elf & Cosmiclawnmower for their choices... (Eco, Hugo, Hesse, Peake, Vonnegut Jr.) I would ramble with, also in no order:

Aldous Huxley

Goethe

Voltaire

Casanova

Simone de Beauvoir

Vladimir Nabokov

Salman Rushdie

Milan Kundera

Ray Bradbury

John Wyndham

A.E. Van Vogt

Edgar Allan Poe

E.R. Eddison

Horace Walpole

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ann Radcliffe

Mary Shelley

Sheridan Le Fanu

Roald Dahl

Jules Verne

my apologies for giving four times the amount... blissful reading everyone. thank you.

Outstanding list truly outstanding.

thank you kindly, geekfreak...

I love to read biographies as well. currently reading JACQUES TATI by David Bellos. also political observation, philosophy & learned discussion. 2 books in this category I am reading as well, include MIDNIGHT IN WASHINGTON by Adam Schiff & THE TAROT PRIMER by Deborah Carter Mastelotto, who happens to be married to Pat Mastelotto, drummer of KING CRIMSON & STICK MEN. thank you again.

https://twitch.tv/guygudenspacepirateradio

No special order-

Ian Banks

Don DeLillo

Thomas Pynchon

Lawrence Durrell

John Fowles

and many others like Dickens, and a host of great sci fi writers like Asimov, Zelazny, PK Dick, Clarke, etc.

One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin

1. Clive Barker

2. Dean Koontz

3. Stephen King

4. Stephen R. Donaldson

5. Tess Gerritsen

Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen

Post Reply	Page 12 >