quick book meme

[janie_tangerine]

.. because I really should be talking about politics but thinking about politics makes me feel more depressed about it than I feel already. So, meme stolen from wandersfound, because I should be writing a thesis and I need procrastination material.

The Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen authors (poets included) who have influenced you and will always stick with you. List the first 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes, and they don't have to be listed in order of relevance to you.

1. George Orwell
2. Stephen King
3. E. M. Forster
4. Emily Bronte
5. Alexandre Dumas
6. Nick Hornby
7. Michael Chabon
8. Margaret Atwood
9. Franz Kafka
10. John Steinbeck
11. Vladimir Nabokov
12. J. R. R. Tolkien
13. Paul Verlaine
14. Javier Marìas
15. Primo Levi

(Honorable mentions: T.S. Eliot who actually should have maybe made the list but it didn't happen, Stendhal, Neil Gaiman, Kurt Vonnegut and Edgar Allan Poe. I should feel bad for the lack of Italian people in this list, but I guess I'll put a remedy to that next time. Also influencing is not the same thing as liking, but whatever. XD)

Ugh seriously someone inject some motivation in me. I actually like what I'm doing. I can write in a pretty decent Italian and I can even make footnotes right. And apparently I didn't make mistakes with the bibliography. Why am I procrastinating so much? *sigh* *goes to re-read another bunch of Kant biographies to add stuff into chapter one*

Comments

[elliotsmelliot.livejournal.com]

*Injects needle full of Kant energy*

I love how your list is a mixture of classic and modern authors!

[janie-tangerine.livejournal.com]

In the end I did some reading, so I guess it's good? Still, tomorrow I'll need your needle. ;)

And ha, I like to be varied!

[lenina20.livejournal.com]

love the meme! might steal it - and Steinbeck would be in my list as well ;)

[janie-tangerine.livejournal.com]

It's a nice one! :D and Steinbeck should be in all lists. ;)

[mollivanders.livejournal.com]

Tolkien and Orwell for the win! :) good luck with your procrastination, dear!

[janie-tangerine.livejournal.com]

Orwell will always be my favorite. ♥ and thanks! Lol in the end I did some reading so better than nothing but tomorrow I'll have to be productive. WHY. ;)

[kljoyce.livejournal.com]

~~~~~~ENERGY & MOTIVATION~~

:D subliminal message!

I love Gaiman and Edgar Allan Poe, for 'Good Omens' and the Dupin mysteries <3

I like EM Forster, Dumas, and Chabon -- but only for 'Adventures of Kavalier...', not for his other stuff, excepting 'Wonder Boys' of course!! Did you see the movie of it ?? <3

For an Italian for the list, what about Umberto Eco?!?! :D :D my fav <3

[janie-tangerine.livejournal.com]

*ABSORBS SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE*

Poe is awesome. ♥ I like everything he did. And while my favorite Gaiman remains American Gods I'll totes agree on Good Omens. :DD

Yep I saw the Wonder Boys movie! It was nice, though the book was better and in the movie I think they did two very wrong things aka cutting all the middle part of the book and casting Katie Holmes. /ew/ I like pretty much everything Chabon did but I think he writes so well that I'd read even the grocery list if he wrote it. ;) Kavalier & Clay is totally his best though. Still the best recent book I've read in the last five years or so.

Umberto Eco was kind of almost making the list actually. :DD I do love him, but I've read more non-fiction by him than novels, and since I had thought this was mostly for novels/poetry/fiction rather than non-fiction he didn't make it. Alright, not like Primo Levi wrote -fiction-, heck no, but in terms of influence he was more important and I wanted at least an Italian. XDD

[kljoyce.livejournal.com]

:D I agree on K Holmes; I liked the three main guys, I thought they were well casted : )

And Umberto!! my love!! His 'Foucault's Pendulum' rules my life <3<3 As do the 'Name of the Rose', and 'The mysterious queen Loana' etc

If you like Eco, do you like Borges?? <3 I love him.

And re Dupin, there's a great Matthew Pearl novel on a man who investigates the 'real inspiration guy' for Dupin a few days after Poe dies. I loved it, it's 'The Poe Shadow' <3


: ))) go kant!! <3

[janie-tangerine.livejournal.com]

Totes agreeing on the rest of the cast -nodnod- but K Holmes = miscast. Hell, the girl in the book wasn't even a brunette if I recall right. XDD

Well my favorite from Eco is totally Name of the Rose <33 god I think it was the only time in my life I enjoyed something related with philosophy AND Middle Ages. (Er, let's sat that medieval philosophy never was my favorite subject /hides)

Re Borges, I read something ages ago but we never exactly clicked. I probably should give him another chance though. Uhm, well, if I do graduate I'll have some two months to catch up with literature, I might try then. ;)

Ooh, is that one good? I read that one Pearl wrote about Dante which I think was like his first and I did enjoy it a lot, but I hadn't heard that he had written one on Poe too. Interesting... *adds to list*

[kljoyce.livejournal.com]

: )) I love that Dante one, 'the dante club' -- the Poe one was a little meta but I loved it -- however his Dickens one was blah imho!!

good luck w/ school bb <3!!! : ))
and if you like borges when you retry him <3, do j. joyce too! he's my true love and no one else i know on LJ loves him too LOL!

[janie-tangerine.livejournal.com]

Hey, I like Joyce! Okay, well, I just read The Dubliners but it's mostly because when five years ago I tried Ulysses I decided that my English was good enough for the Bronte sisters but def. not good enough for not-Dubliners Joyce. But I'll totally read it soon-ish, I think that I improved. XD ;)

[kljoyce.livejournal.com]

oooo :D YAY! bb after you get sucked into Ulysses, WRITE ME! we will ~~talk!!! :D

ooo and do you like 'house of leaves' by mark danieletc, I LOVE it! so post-mod, yet fun yet exciting!! <3

[ladymacbeth77.livejournal.com]

Su alcuni mi trovi perfettamente d'accordo ♥

[janie-tangerine.livejournal.com]

Il numero cinque tipo? Ma tiro proprio a caso eh. XD ;) ♥