R L Stein. Who can write that many stupid books....seriously.

whoever wrote the babysitters club. she can write that many stupid, stupid books. i bet she made megabucks on that shit though.

aw yeah, chronicling the banalities of being 13 and the ups and downs of babysitting for sub-sub-minumum wage. tales from the mean streets of suburban connecticut. over 10000000 96 page volumes. positively riveting.

Goosebumps, and Fear Street novels were like razor-blade filled candy for my brain as a youngin'.

This thread makes me realize just how seldom I've been reading lately.

*sigh*

Well the stand beat poet (influnced things) and Oscar Wilde but that's more plays

American authors I most admire:

Stephen Donaldson
Gene Wolfe
John Scalzi
Joe Haldeman
H.P. Lovecraft
Robert E. Howard

Camus, Beckett, Blake, Ginsberg, TS Eliot

I sure forget other ones.

Dickens, Hemmingway, Puzo

i like brett easton-ellis quite a lot too. he is always very descriptive and has quite a lot of satire in his writing.

Michael Brodsky, Cormac McCarthy

[pussy alert!] american psycho is the only book that has ever made me feel, like, physically sick.

i'd consider that a good thing, though. somewhat negative reaction >>>>> no reaction

yes i did feel pretty uneasy after reading some of that book. my wife is reading it right now and keeps squirming everytime a nasty bit happens. the film was atrocious.

While he's not my favorite writer, I truly do admire Burroughs. It seems like he was writing in order to survive his problems. Writing his way out of the shit of the world. The best of his work is some of the most brutal and desparate stuff I've read, more so than anyone else coming to mind right now.

I also admire writers who can put extremely complex theories and ideas into understandable language.

And I fucking love Walt Whitman.