ITT we compile a list of authors who, according to ourselves, stand out from the rest simply by their raw writing ability. The authors who could write a five thousand page novel on paint drying and we would just sit there and read it, mesmerized by every word.
For me it would be China Mieville, George R.R. Martin, and Neal Stephenson.
Some authors I like but there overall literary talent isn't as good as there abilities to write plots. like ayn rand. I love her booksbut her writing style is length and boring. I like Gore Vidal but his style is nothing special
I agree at least partially. Few authors can write an action scene as well as he can.
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Anonymous2008-07-13 10:21
Dan Brown
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Anonymous2008-08-05 19:27
edgar allan poe
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Anonymous2008-08-05 21:41
David Eddings
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Anonymous2008-08-05 21:48
JRR Tolkien. Ernest Hemingway
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Anonymous2008-08-05 22:28
Michael Chrichton
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Anonymous2008-08-06 3:28
>>27 >>29
Tolkien? Poe?! Are you fucking serious, guys?..
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Anonymous2008-08-06 8:38
Camus.
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Anonymous2008-08-06 9:27
Vladimir Nabokov
Umberto Eco
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Anonymous2008-08-06 9:33
Christopher Paolini
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Anonymous2008-08-06 9:43
dostoyevski
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Anonymous2008-08-06 23:16
Jorge Luis Borges
Julio Cortazar
Tom Robbins
Charles Bukowski
I know it's basically a who's-who of hipster bookshelves, but damn they are amazing.
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Anonymous2008-08-07 0:36
ayn rand. ten thousand pages on paint drying, easy.
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Anonymous2008-08-07 1:17
I want to say JRR Tolkien because I'm a massive faggot for LotR, but honestly, his writing is a little difficult to push yourself through.
I'd have to go with George Orwell.
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Anonymous2008-08-07 22:28
>>38
Tolkien's language is beautiful; he paid a lot of attention to the sound of words, to their form, and that's very important. Orwell did as well, but not with the care and mastery that Tolkien applied to it.
Whoever keeps saying Ayn Rand is a dumbshit. For all intents and purposes, Ayn Rand may as well be illiterate.
Stephen King, JRR Tolkien, Neil Gaiman
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Anonymous2008-08-18 3:07
This is going to sound like an odd choice, but Nasu Kinoko. His way of describing things goes back and forth between making my head explode and making me shit bricks.
Bukowski is quite possibly the most overrated poet ever. All his poetry sounds like the drunken ramblings of a cranky old douche who hates everyone but himself. Coincidentally, it actually is that.