Who is your all time favorite author? I have always been drawn to....

Kerouac, Knut Hamsun, Hemingway all time faves

Try John Fante if you like Bukowski. Huge influence on Bukowski

Only read his GLP stuff... but Warf Rat is Awesome!

Booth Tarkington, pure distillation of Hoosier reality from 100 years ago.
As real as the world spun by Samuel Clemmons, in complicated long sentences.

"Penrod and Sam" is in the public domain.

"Ep Mack im mimmup."

This^^^

Anne was mine too! I read the Dragonriders of Pern series, then Tolkien. Hooked on it all now.

hemingway

These aren’t in any order but here are mine:
George William Russell (Æ)
Dane Rudhyar
Philip Dick
Tom Robbins
Thomas Pynchon
William Blake
Rainer Maria Rilke
John Lamb Lash
Rudolph Steiner
James Joyce
Carlos Castaneda
Carl Jung
Bailey & Blavatsky
Charles Howard Hinton
Rudolf Otto
St Germain, haha
Robert Fludd
Joscelyn Godwin
Paul Brunton
Giordano Bruno
Charles Howard Hinton
Ludwig Klages
I could go on and on. It’s weird seeing everyone’s list on a public forum like this. Feels kind of like we’re posting nudes of ourselves or something. Probably more telling than a nude.

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He was good but he went off the rails with that Egyptian thing

Loved Penrod and Sam, Herman and Vermin, lol

Sri Yukteswar's website is very nicely put together

Many writers I admire have been listed.

So I'll add some who likely are unread.

Nikos Kazantzakis, author of among other books Zorba The Greek.

Czeslaw Milosz, among other books, The Captive Mind.

Carlo Levi-post-war Italian writer famous for Christ Stopped At Eboli

Paul Valery, prolific French author, poet and essayist, a short read would be his 1919 essay Crisis of the Mind

John Cowper Powys, English author, big in the 20's, -40's, Owen Glendower, A historical fiction about the Welsh hero.

Kenneth Patchen, American poet and author of The Journal of Albion Moonlight

And last but not least Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer among others

Christopher Brookmyre, John Connolly, Robert Rankin, Kurt Vonnegut, Nigel Tranter and Terry Pratchett. All excellent, need to be in the mood for Vonnegut though.

HERODOTUS, CICERO

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Lovecraft

Knut Hamsun

Ezra Pound

Wow I'm astonished to see Klages mentioend anywhere, at all. I'm writing a book on Klages.

Please don't mind my red karma... it's a long story...

But I am a new man now! A Klagesian man!

Edgar Rice Burroughs
John Norman
Ray Bradbury
Tolkien
Jack London

Alexander Dumas
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Holy Bible

Never fails.

Sorry, duplicate

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lucid madness

A few favourites.
Herman Hess
Joseph Campbell
Tom Robbins
Plato.

Carl g Jung. I never liked fiction much. I do like mark Twain though.

Maybe someone is playing a game with us, making the synchronicities become uncanny as we approach some strange singularity. Who knows.

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Douglas Adams
Annie Jacobsen
Thomas Paine
Christopher Moore
Anthony Bourdain

Eclectic.

https://imgur.com/a/KgamU7L

Some odd choices selected ...

Bukowski was a drunk. Stephen King is a Satanist. Tolkien was likely a Free Mason/Satanist. Ayn Rand was a Satanist. And Hunter S. Thompson filmed snuff pedophile films.

I'd go for the more obscure. Peter Tompkins. Author of The Secret Life of Plants, amongst others. That book taught me more than any other book about plants.

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Now, of those authors you quoted, of whom have you read a biography about them or an autobiography?

lol

The only Stephen king book I’ve read was his memoir on writing.

Not really into his horror shit... interesting to read about peoples methods!

Jules Verne.

I must have read Journey to the Center of the Earth a dozen times as a kid. He is the 2nd most translated author in the world.

My second favorite author probably would be Erich Von Daniken because his books got me hooked on conspiracies. I know his books are mostly crap but they got me started.

Third would be Thor Heyerdahl because of his books Kon-Tiki and Aku-Aku.