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A top ten of writers of literature
Posted by mariosa • 9/06/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: 10 names, books, list, literature
If you must to do a list with only ten writers around of the world with one book of them that you like, who choose? List them please.
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well
Fernando Namora: "Domingo à tarde"(Sunday afternoon)
Heinrich Böll: "The Silent Angel"
Jane Austen: "Pride and Prejudice"
Graham Green: "The Honorary Consul"
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: "Sherlock Holmes"
Bocage: there isn't any book, it's poetry!
Eça De Queirós: "Os Maias"
José Saramago: "O convento De Mafra"
Erich Maria Remarque: "All Quiet on the Western Front"
Jean Paul Sartre: "The Words" -
Ups Jonh Steinback is good too! I can't remember now the name of the book !
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I see a couple names of portugueses writers, nice!
I like especially Green, Sartre, Steinbeck and Saramago. Really a good list my friend. Maybe Doyle is a little weak. What about Remarque and the portuguese writers? are they good?
Steinbeck , maybe grapes of wrath? I like east of Eden too.-
Well, António Lobo Antunes deserved the nobel prize, instead they gave it to Saramago! both are good, i like more the way António Lobo Antunes wright, Fernando Namora is considered one of the best Portuguese writers, he was a doctor, bocage was a prodigy, and he is simply fantastic! Fernando Pessoa is very good too! Remarque was a WWI writer, and "All Quiet on the Western Front" for me is the best novels he has.
I love Sir Conan Doyle because I love police novels!
I can't speak about the "east of Eden" because I never read it!
But here in Portugal, we have many good writers! I'm a little bit of a writter too! xD Girls love it! LOL
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Oh, if you like Renaissance literature, read Luís De Camões! Consider the best poet of ever by many!
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I have books of Lobo Antunes and Pessoa, im gonna read them in the future. I like police novels too but Doyle make me think about easy literature, it was fun only, I think Millenium trilogy form Stieg Larsson is in the sky around the world, I must to read it but later. Iam with Hemingway right now.
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Ernest Hemingway's Complete Short Stories
John Steinbeck's East of Eden
C.S. Lewis's...hm, tough call here. Probably Til We Have Faces; maybe Mere Christianity but it's so SHORT...
John Updike's Couples
Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
Something by Jon Hassler, but I haven't read them all yet so can't pick. Probably North of Hope
Sheldon Vanauken's A Severe Mercy
Willard Motley's Knock on Any Door (more for sentimental than literary reasons)
Alexandre de Dumas's The Count of Monte Christo, in french
(Interestingly, the book I most often refer to as my "favorite" didn't make this list) -
I like east of eden, its a great book and movie.
Ayn Rand is in my list of books that I want, but it will be when I have money to buy it
I love Hemingway, Killers or the snow of Kilimanjaro are nice short stories. Right now Iam with "A farewall to arms" -
Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass
Tao-teh-ching: Lao-Tzu
Collected poems: Fernando Pessoa
The Journals of Jules Renard
Bartleby the Scrivener: Herman Melville
Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Journey to the End of the night: Celine
A Season in Hell: Arthur Rimbaud
An Enemy of the People: Henrik Ibsen
The Plays of Anton Chekhov
The Decameron by Boccaccio-
great list! I have in my library almost all that you mention.
Chejov is one of the best writers of the world about his short stories. Talk about simple life and the feelings of the human beings. -
True-Chekhov is also a great short story writer. Have you read "The Bet." Not a story you'd want to read alone on a desert island.
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I think that is my favorite Chekhov story.
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I read it, very good short story, the man who lost the love for the life, but strange because he read all in books, knowledge give him his way of see the life, it is a philosophical story. What do you think about it?
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