Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all.
Camilla Send a noteboard - 28/09/2009 09:55:36 AM
So, which of these authors have you read? I am starting a little project which includes reading something from each of these. Anyone feeling up to the challenge?
Yes. But it won't happen immediately.
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
I meant to look him up, but then I forgot.
Doris Lessing
I read some of her. The last was The Good Terrorist. I also have The Cleft waiting on my shelf.
Orhan Pamuk
I've only read My Name is Read, or whatever it is called in English; but I fully intend to get hold of more.
Harold Pinter
I am sensing a pattern. The sad thing is it only just hit me.
Elfriede Jelinek
J. M. Coetzee
I have every intention of reading Foe.
Imre Kertész
V. S. Naipaul
I've only read his writing on other writiers.
Gao Xingjian
Günter Grass
Oooh. I did. I have no idea which book it was. I was too young to actually understand anything I read.
José Saramago
Always meant to.
Dario Fo
An Anarchist's Diary was one of those texts I happened upon at an impressionable stage of my youth. I always meant to read more.
Wislawa Szymborska
Seamus Heaney
Kenzaburo Oe
Toni Morrison
You know, I tried. When she was awarded the prize. I suspect that is why I never sat down to read through the laureates. I really didn't like her The Bluest Eyes. To be fair I was 12 at the time, I think. I should probably give her a second go at some point.
Derek Walcott
Nadine Gordimer
Only a short story, I think. I can't remember what it was called.
Octavio Paz
Camilo José Cela
Naguib Mahfouz
Joseph Brodsky
Wole Soyinka
Claude Simon
Jaroslav Seifert
William Golding
I read Lord of the Flies when I was too young to appreciate anything but it being horribly disgusting at times. Probably around the Toni Morrison incident.
Gabriel García Márquez
Of course. Rather a lot.
Elias Canetti
Czeslaw Milosz
Odysseus Elytis
No. He has a cool name, though.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Vicente Aleixandre
Saul Bellow
Eugenio Montale
Eyvind Johnson,
Hehe. A Swede. No.
Harry Martinson
Another Swede. Hmmmm. No.
Patrick White
Heinrich Böll
Pablo Neruda
Rather a lot. I read all his poetry that I could lay my hands on when I was 15. I like him.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
I liked (if that is the word) his One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch, but I still haven't finished The Gulag Archipelago. I always meant to read more of him.
Samuel Beckett
Naturally. I love Beckett. I have mostly read his plays, though.
Yasunari Kawabata
Miguel Angel Asturias
Shmuel Agnon,
Nelly Sachs
Mikhail Sholokhov
Jean-Paul Sartre
Yes. Some short stories. "Le Mur", I remember, made quite an impression. "Les Mains Salles", "La Nausée" and some other stuff. And some extracts from his philosophising.
Giorgos Seferis
John Steinbeck
Tortilla Flat was always one of my favourite books, but I haven't read it is a couple of years now. I was less impressed with his East of Eden, but I intend to read Of Mice and Men.
Ivo Andric
Bridge over Drina was both amazing and unbelievably upsetting. I intend to read The Consuls, or whatever it is called in English.
Saint-John Perse
Salvatore Quasimodo
Boris Pasternak
Dr Zhivago, obviously. But nothing else, I think.
Albert Camus
L'Etranger and parts of Le Mythe de Sisyphe, which I intend to read the whole of. I'm sure there is more, but I cannot think of anything.
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Halldór Laxness
Ernest Hemingway
Ick. Short stories, which I didn't mind, but I never warmed to him as a novelist.
Winston Churchill
Some extracts of his book on history of English speaking people.
François Mauriac
Pär Lagerkvist
I was sure I had read some of his, but when I checked wikipedia for the title, I couldn't find it. I might be confusing him with someone else.
Bertrand Russell
Some essay or other.
William Faulkner
I know I should read The sound and the fury. It just sounds too depressing for words, so I haven't gotten round to it.
T.S. Eliot
Quite a few poems, and some essays on literature.
André Gide
An essay on Surrealism, but none of his actual work, I think.
Hermann Hesse
Siddharta. A long time ago. I should probably reread.
Gabriela Mistral
Johannes V. Jensen
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Pearl Buck
Roger Martin du Gard
Eugene O'Neill
Luigi Pirandello
I always meant to. I've read a lot about him, and some extracts, but nothing in its entirety I think.
Ivan Bunin
John Galsworthy
I have The Forsythe Saga, but I haven't read it yet.
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Sinclair Lewis
Thomas Mann
Ooooh. I LIKE. The short stories are excellent, and I just now remembered that Doctor Faustus is waiting for me to finish it. It got stuck in Norway.
Sigrid Undset
I am not a great fan, but when I was 12 or so I read Kristin Lavransdatter and liked it.
Henri Bergson
Only philosophy.
Grazia Deledda
George Bernard Shaw
Mrs Warren's Profession, Pygmalion and rather a lot of newspaper clippings and opinions. He was the Jury foreman in the Trial of John Jasper in 1914 and caused quite an uproar by giving a unilateral judgement.
Wladyslaw Reymont
William Butler Yeats
Some poetry. I like him.
Jacinto Benavente
Anatole France
I have a pretty old edition of Thaïs which I plan on reading at some point.
Knut Hamsun
While I like Sult (Hunger), some of his other stuff is absolute shit. Victoria made a pretty good job of putting me off the man for good.
Carl Spitteler
Karl Gjellerup,
Henrik Pontoppidan
Verner von Heidenstam
Romain Rolland
Rabindranath Tagore
Gerhart Hauptmann
Maurice Maeterlinck
Paul Heyse
Selma Lagerlöf
I have read Christ Legends and a cartoon version of Nils Holgersson, which I fully intend to read for real.
Rudolf Eucken
Rudyard Kipling
Some bad poetry, some good short stories, I think (come to think of it they may have been extracts from books), and a version of The Jungle Book which I feel sure was shortened beyond recognition.
Giosuè Carducci
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Quo Vadis when I was 11. It almost made me religious.
Frédéric Mistral,
José Echegaray
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
I am Norwegian and from Molde. Avoiding Bjørnson would be tricky.
Theodor Mommsen
Sully Prudhomme
Some poems.
I would have liked to see Ibsen and Lindgren on that list.
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So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all.
26/09/2009 08:17:06 PM
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Myself, so far...
26/09/2009 08:22:52 PM
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Wow
26/09/2009 08:52:10 PM
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Oh.
26/09/2009 09:01:31 PM
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Yes, even people with virtually no education have usually heard of Churchill and/or Kipling. *NM*
26/09/2009 09:37:59 PM
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I've read 36 of those
26/09/2009 09:04:18 PM
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Okay, I've read a few of these people. (EDITED to specify what works)
26/09/2009 09:36:31 PM
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Gee, I wonder what the theme is...
26/09/2009 09:37:38 PM
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It's not so hard to figure that out...
26/09/2009 09:44:55 PM
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Why is that? Because the prize is utterly meaningless?
26/09/2009 09:58:39 PM
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Of course it is meaningless, all prizes are.
26/09/2009 10:08:36 PM
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Oh...but those are the "Some People" that I look down my elitist nose at.
26/09/2009 10:18:01 PM
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Let's see.
26/09/2009 09:58:12 PM
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Of all the Russian authors to receive the prize, Solzhenitsyn is the worst stylistically
26/09/2009 10:03:11 PM
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I've been meaning to read Pasternak for such a long time.
26/09/2009 10:06:28 PM
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Don't put it on a list at amazon. Put it in the cart, then click on "purchase".
26/09/2009 10:23:33 PM
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I don't buy books online myself. If I did people would never know what to get me.
26/09/2009 10:26:01 PM
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See, I can't remember if I read Pasternak...
26/09/2009 10:11:14 PM
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It's one of my favorite books of all time.
26/09/2009 10:21:37 PM
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There's an ITV film of the book with Keira Knightley. It looks utterly appalling. *NM*
26/09/2009 10:25:12 PM
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For what it's worth, the recent Russian miniseries wasn't fantastic.
27/09/2009 03:02:25 AM
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Only 10 of them.
26/09/2009 11:53:47 PM
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From my list, Hesse's Siddhartha is my foremost recommendation. *NM*
26/09/2009 11:55:03 PM
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Only these ones have I already read, but I'll try the challenge. Could take me a while, atm.
27/09/2009 02:48:10 AM
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Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all.
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Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all.
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Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all.
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Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all.
29/09/2009 02:20:37 PM
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I worked out that the best way to make use of this thread is to remove the names I have read...
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