Mount Rushmore of novelists

[masonanddixon]

Pynchon
Faulkner
Gaddis
Proust

[L.Kizzle]

Dr. Suess.

[lakers_forever]

My personal taste:

Tolstoy the best IMO
Shakespeare (he wrote plays, but he deserves to be there)
Dostoyevsky
Victor Hugo (underrated)

James Joyce, Kafka, Orwell, Faukner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Tchekhov, Nabokov, Fitzgerald, Machado de Assis, Gabriel Garcial Marquez, Alexandre Dumas, Proust, Flaubert and several others have a case to be up there.

[Dresta]

Have you guys really read Proust? If so, how old are you/were you?

I've heard it's better something left to your 30s, at least (just it terms of how much more you will get from it if youth isn't all you've ever known).

[lakers_forever]

Have you guys really read Proust? If so, how old are you/were you?

I've heard it's better something left to your 30s, at least (just it terms of how much more you will get from it if youth isn't all you've ever known).

No. Never. Honestly, I just put him there because of his fame. Out of my list, I have read, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Victor Hugo, Orwell, Hemingway, Alexandre Dumas, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Fitzgerald and Machado de Assis.

[rufuspaul]

Have you guys really read Proust? If so, how old are you/were you?

I've heard it's better something left to your 30s, at least (just it terms of how much more you will get from it if youth isn't all you've ever known).


Read some in college and hated it. I should probably re-visit some of his works.

[lakers_forever]

Tolkien for his massive impact on fantasy.

Tolkien is great, fun, but nowhere near the top novelists. It's like comparing George R. R. Martin (I've read a" song of fire and ice" - it is a fun series and that's it) to Cormac McCarthy. You just can't.

[rufuspaul]

Tolkien is great, fun, but nowhere near the top novelists. It's like comparing George R. R. Martin (I've read a" song of fire and ice" - it is a fun series and that's it) to Cormac McCarthy. You just can't.


He should be on there.

[Akrazotile]

Read some in college and hated it. I should probably re-visit some of his works.


I started one of the volumes of Lost Time a few months ago actually, but started to feel pretty quickly I wasnt really gonna be interested in it at this point in time and abandoned it pretty quickly.

[Jasi]

Apuleius
Cervantes
Dostoevskij
Borges

[rufuspaul]

Here's the all German one: der Rushmorespitz


Goethe
Mann
Rilke
Hesse

[Jasi]

Nice idea!

Il Monte Rushmore:

Manzoni
Verga
Pirandello
Calvino

[Jasi]

гора Рашмор

Pushkin
Gogol
Dostoevskij
Tolstoj

[rufuspaul]

The Mount Rushmore (American, **** yeah!)

Fitzgerald
Hemingway
Faulkner
Vonnegut

[Jasi]

No Steinbeck? :eek:

[masonanddixon]

Have you guys really read Proust? If so, how old are you/were you?

I've heard it's better something left to your 30s, at least (just it terms of how much more you will get from it if youth isn't all you've ever known).

I read every volume of in Search of Lost Time in my late 20s and loved it. It's not difficult to read; it's just long as ****.

[masonanddixon]

The Mount Rushmore (American, **** yeah!)

Fitzgerald
Hemingway
Faulkner
Vonnegut

lol no Pynchon or Gaddis? Come on now, son!

[rufuspaul]

No Steinbeck? :eek:

I thought about him but went with Vonnegut instead because Slaughterhouse Five is such a kickass book. A case could be made for Salinger too.

[rufuspaul]

lol no Pynchon or Gaddis? Come on now, son!

There can only be 4. :lol

[branslowski]

Hank Moody/

[masonanddixon]

There can only be 4. :lol

Yeah and Gravity's Rainbow, Mason and Dixon and the Recognitions are like the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost of literature!

[rufuspaul]

Yeah and Gravity's Rainbow, Mason and Dixon and the Recognitions are like the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost of literature!


I can see wherein your affection lies. :cheers:

[rufuspaul]

Ye Olde Mount Rush of More


Dickens
Austen
Joyce
Lawrence

[lakers_forever]

Latin America:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jorge Luis Borges
Machado de Assis
Mario Vargas Llosa

[oarabbus]

Tolkien is great, fun, but nowhere near the top novelists. It's like comparing George R. R. Martin (I've read a" song of fire and ice" - it is a fun series and that's it) to Cormac McCarthy. You just can't.


My friend lent me Blood Meridian. Good place to start with McCarthy?


I thought about him but went with Vonnegut instead because Slaughterhouse Five is such a kickass book. A case could be made for Salinger too.

Salinger - really? If we're talking American authors all time I don't see him as a top 5.


Also he's not a GOAT tier but has anyone read Thomas Ligotti?

[rufuspaul]

My friend lent me Blood Meridian. Good place to start with McCarthy?

Love that one.




Salinger - really? If we're talking American authors all time I don't see him as a top 5.


That's why I didn't include him. Who is your top 5?

[fsvr54]

Dr. Suess.

:roll: :roll:

[masonanddixon]

:roll: :roll:

Best part is that the dude spells it incorrectly.

I'm surprised he didn't list Ralph Ellison, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Zora Neal Herston as his GOATs

[macmac]

International Rushmore

Herman Hesse
Joyce
Hemingway
Dostoyevsky

[joe]

RL Stine has to be up there

[Akrazotile]

RL Stine has to be up there


You dont put the image of God onto a mountain

[Jailblazers7]

International Rushmore

Herman Hesse
Joyce
Hemingway
Dostoyevsky

Yeah I think I'd go international for my Mt Rushmore if I had to pick one. Mine would be:

Nabokov
Balzac
Marquez
Murakami

Maybe swap out Balzac for Steinbeck or a great American author.

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

Mount Rushw.hore

Danielle Steel
E.L. James
JK Rowling
Missy Elliot


Mount Kushmore
Jack Kerouac
Vonnegut
Bukowski
Sartre


Count Rushmore
Bram Stoker
Goethe
Richard Matheson
Darren Shan


... crush more and rushbore need nominations

[EwingMan]

Nabakov
Pynchon
Delillo
Mccarthy

[masonanddixon]

Nabakov
Pynchon
Delillo
Mccarthy

Is this of like post-modern fiction?

[EwingMan]

Is this of like post-modern fiction?

not sure if mccarthy counts--maybe just like, recent american shit that i like.

but anyway upon reflection it should probably just be:

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[masonanddixon]

Is that a young Roth?

What have you read by Pynchon?

[EwingMan]

Is that a young Roth?

What have you read by Pynchon?

an ageless updike.

v, rainbow, inherent vice and reading crying lots. he's dope.

[masonanddixon]

an ageless updike.

v, rainbow, inherent vice and reading crying lots. he's dope.

Hell yeah man. Gravitys Rainbow is the GOAT. How about Mason and Dixon?

[EwingMan]

Hell yeah man. Gravitys Rainbow is the GOAT. How about Mason and Dixon?

nope! never knew of it. heheheh-- i feel like you'd probably recommend it? unless all his other titles were already taken as user names..

you study english/writing? or are you just literate?

[masonanddixon]

nope! never knew of it. heheheh-- i feel like you'd probably recommend it? unless all his other titles were already taken as user names..

you study english/writing? or are you just literate?

It's incredible. No I just enjoy literature. What about you?