i also love hemmingway, especially his short stories. a clean well lighted place is one of my favorites.

another of my favorite short stories - the living and the dead by James Joyce.

broz karamazov and fy dostoevsky

(and it is hilarious too. amazing)

My favourite book is "Still Life With Woodpecker" and it is by my favourite author Tom Robbins.

<---Still appreciates the recommendation.

I was actually just thinking about that book yesterday. Good reading indeed.

I tried to read it a as teenager and was just like: "can't deal with this stupid mysogynist bullshit."

Now I'm planning to give it another try.

I did recently read "Satori in Paris" by Kerouac and thoroughly enjoy it.

Don't know if I have any favorites. I'm not really much into fiction.

Some authors & books I've liked: Madeline L'Engle (her journals), Andre Gide (the Counterfeiters), Franz Kafka, Kurt Vonnegut (Dead-Eye Dick), Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises).

other favorite books:
the awakening by kate chopin
the bell jar by sylvia plath
the wonder boys by michael chabon

favorite short stories:
'a perfect day for bananafish' by j.d. salinger
'for esme, with love and squalor' by j.d. salinger
'the yellow wallpaper' by charlotte perkins gilman

gide's the immoralist was good.
it's been 20 years.
i think i may reread this.

i don't know if i would say i hate him, but i didn't like what i read.

i read "dharma bums" and found it really boring, then tried to read "on the road" but gave up after 10 pages or so.


as for my favorite, i'd say Vonnegut and creaping up recently is Tom Wolfe.
they both tell great storys and both write great essays.

It is spectacularly good... but I didn't count books in translation... Camus (I stilll remember the summer in high school when I read the Stranger, and wanted to move to Algeria so bad... wear black and smoke Gauloise... you know, live in the north african version of the universe of Breathless , and then the Russians, Thomas Mann... Puig, Fuentes, Borges... all read in translation.

Maybe my favorite novel today in Lolita... also a novel that seems like it is in translation from something other than the English we know.

ive never read the stranger.
i have read the plague which was pretty amazing.

lolita is perfection.

book: A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

author: (today I'll say) Stewart O'Nan

Word. I actually don't know which is my favorite of his Glass family short stories. 'Teddy' is my favorite short by him but I love all the Glass ones. Especially 'Seymour: An Introduction'.

Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes is a really great book. The Stranger is also up there for me too.

Favorite author is probably Raymond Chandler.

The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Calvino

One of those can be my favorite book, the other my favorite author. Either way works.

Lately my personal favorite is anything by Haruki Murakami.

As a kid, most definitely Roald Dahl.

my favorite glass family story is 'franny'.

the stranger has been on my "to read" list forever. i actually don't have a list, but in my brain i know i'd like to read it.
out of the 50 books i've bought as of late i haven't managed to come across this at goodwill.. but i'm waiting. one day it will happen.

I like 'Franny' as well, but my favourite might be 'Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenter'.

Favorite book is definitely The Grapes of Wrath, amazing black and white movie too.
Favorite author would have to be Dostoyevsky though.

As a kid, I wrote a letter to Roald Dahl.
I got a postcard back, signed by the man himself.
Still have it.

Book: A Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving

Author: Only authors of whom I've read a majority of their works are Stephen King and Nick Hornby. Hornby wins. Gene Wolfe is threatening if the rest of his catalog is anything like Shadow of the Torturer.

I'm such a Thompson junkie that I might as well just put it in a different category. Favorite book of his though is Fear And Loathing On The Campain Trail '72. Fucking brilliant criticism of the presidential election process and some of the most fucked up non-sequitors in history. Honestly, I have a hard time figuring out if it is brilliantly crafted (like the Vegas book) or if he is really fucking losing his mind. A little of both I suppose.

My two favorite pieces of American literature are The Great Gatsby (sorry Fu--its brilliant) and The Sun Also Rises. I can basically pick either one up anytime and be entertained.

Favorite author is Larry McMurtry among many.

Kerouac or Burroughs,

Book: On the Road (Sure its his most 'famous', but seriously how can anything be better?)

While I like but not love Camus. I thought The Stranger was superior to The Plague. While I found The Plague interesting, Camus failed to really engross me in the story.

Of all time, my favorite book is "Bored Of The Rings" by The Harvard Lampoon. It's one of three books I've read more than once, and the only one I've read more than twice.

I don't think I can identify a single favorite author, but the authors of whom I have the most or most complete work:

Robertson Davies
Jonathan Gash
Patrick O'Brian
Christopher Moore
Kinky Friedman
W. Michael & Kathleen O'Neal Gear