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Subject: Greatest authors of all time?

Who would you say are the greatest authors of all time?

  • 11.30.2012 5:29 PM PDT

Per Audacia Ad Astra

Stephen King
/lol

  • 11.30.2012 5:30 PM PDT
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Why So Serious?

"I'm gonna go America all over everybody's asses!"
-Charlie, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Any answer will seem presumptuous as the parameters of the question are too broad

  • 11.30.2012 5:30 PM PDT

My gamertag is Dustin Nugget, like my name here.

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Pick one.

  • 11.30.2012 5:31 PM PDT

"It is the cruelest fate, to have written words that meant well and see them made wicked and unwise. What was meant to encourage life, used instead to justify taking it."

J.R.R. Tolkien
Victor Hugo
Bram Stoker
J.K. Rowling
C.S. Lewis
George R.R. Martin

  • 11.30.2012 5:32 PM PDT

Posted by: Alex Mac Kee
If pen­ises were planes Jimmy's mouth would be an airport


Posted by: DarkBen64
Don't punch a British kid, the queen'll come after you.

David Foster Wallace just seems increasingly more brilliant the more I read of him.

  • 11.30.2012 5:32 PM PDT


Posted by: Not The Joker
Any answer will seem presumptuous as the parameters of the question are too broad


Broad questions encourage broad answers.

  • 11.30.2012 5:32 PM PDT

My troll sense is tingling.

One of the greatest is surely Tolkien. Sure, I might have problems with his telling of an actual story sometimes but there's no doubt his detail is vivid. He pretty much created an incredibly detailed world with its own culture and languages from what was initially a bedtime story. He was a master of language.

  • 11.30.2012 5:32 PM PDT

Posted by: Alex Mac Kee
If pen­ises were planes Jimmy's mouth would be an airport


Posted by: DarkBen64
Don't punch a British kid, the queen'll come after you.

Posted by: DngerlyAwkwrd
J.K. Rowling
George R.R. Martin
eeehhhhhhhhhhhh.......

  • 11.30.2012 5:32 PM PDT

Christopher Hitchens.
/thread

I said close it. *waves fist threateningly*

  • 11.30.2012 5:33 PM PDT

"It is the cruelest fate, to have written words that meant well and see them made wicked and unwise. What was meant to encourage life, used instead to justify taking it."


Posted by: teh Chaz
Posted by: DngerlyAwkwrd
J.K. Rowling
George R.R. Martin
eeehhhhhhhhhhhh.......

Just picking them off the top of my head.

  • 11.30.2012 5:33 PM PDT

So Says Shadroxon.

H.G. Wells.

  • 11.30.2012 5:33 PM PDT

Hdawger, the wizard of the mountains.

When someone replied with George R.R. Martin, I almost read it as George H.W. Bush.

OT: George H.W. Bush

  • 11.30.2012 5:34 PM PDT
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I wonder the testicle.

Stephenie Meyer.

  • 11.30.2012 5:34 PM PDT

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."
-Sir Winston Churchill

The Secret Society 95% of activity is me, I could use some help.

Ray Bradbury

R.I.P.

*snivel*

  • 11.30.2012 5:34 PM PDT

Well its hard for me to compare authors who work in different genre's
my personal favorites that i would consider great in Fantasy/Sci-Fi are:
Robert Jordan
Tolkien
Greg Bear

But I also like classic authors such as Mark Twain and Charles Dickens

  • 11.30.2012 5:36 PM PDT

The Universe demands to be noticed, to be seen, and dutifully noted.

What use all those incredible firework dimensions if no eye fixes and reflects, no brain takes notes, no heart moves with passion at the display?

NASA answers the silent cry of the Cosmos for recognition.

NASA is the witness and we fellow witnesses to the endless deeps.


Posted by: Jiggleslinky
Ray Bradbury

R.I.P.

*snivel*


It's a three-way tie between Asimov, Bradbury and Clarke. Science Fiction would be nowhere near as popular without them.

  • 11.30.2012 5:38 PM PDT

Dean Koontz.

  • 11.30.2012 5:43 PM PDT

-blam!- Was that actually blammed out? Or did I just type it? You'll never know.

Victor Hugo. Legend of french literature.

  • 11.30.2012 5:44 PM PDT

I'm your biggest fan!

It's supposed to be people like Hemingway and Salinger or even Cormac McCarthy. I'm not a big fan of any of them, though, so I'm going to say Chuck Palahniuk.

  • 11.30.2012 5:45 PM PDT
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LOL @ ur SW@G


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Who would you say are the greatest authors of all time?




Suzane Collin

  • 11.30.2012 5:46 PM PDT

Robin Hobb is the best author yet in my opinion.

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"Scio me nihil scire." - Socrates

Homer

*puts on hipster glasses

  • 11.30.2012 5:48 PM PDT

Frank Herbert

  • 11.30.2012 5:49 PM PDT

Posted by: Alex Mac Kee
If pen­ises were planes Jimmy's mouth would be an airport


Posted by: DarkBen64
Don't punch a British kid, the queen'll come after you.

Posted by: Big Boy1229
Frank Herbert
Dune was a bit wanky really

  • 11.30.2012 5:50 PM PDT

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