#3307

I tried posting in some other threads but didn’t like it so came scurrying back here.

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#3308

My list fwiw

Mark Z Danielewski 7
James Tiptree Jr 2
Alastair Reynolds 8
Becky Chambers 3
HP Lovecraft 13
Edgar Allen Poe 14
Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9
Jorge Luis Borges 1
Gene Wolfe 6
David Mitchell 11
Iain (M) Banks 4
Shirley Jackson 19
China Mieville 15
Neil Gaiman 20
Albert Camus 16
Emily Bronte 5
Herman Melville 18
H G Wells 17
Antoine de Saint Exupery 12
Margaret Atwood 10

I did the points like this because I hate @wonton and this seemed like a great wind up actually because I made the list before I realised we had to order them

Maybe the real books were the friends we made along the way.

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#3309

Yeah! So incredible. All his stories are razorsharp with concision, yet have amazing imaginative colour. The posthumous autobiographical ones are heartbreaking though.

#3310

I have a collection that I think I bought on a bit of a whim but really enjoyed, but I always worry I’m spelling his name wrong when I try to recommend it!

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#3311

Haha, yeah, Japanese names just don’t come naturally to me. I always struggle to remember Tanizaki’s name as well!

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#3312

Something about worrying your nob has teeth but sure I’ll ditch the weird tiger

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#3313

Wasn’t around to see the final entries play out yesterday - quick thoughts:

Never read GGM! Should get that cholera one (probably have a few in Fopp… :wink:)
Norwegian Wood was so boring, can’t believe you all actually like him
Vonnegut is dece
Atwood, yeah, fine. Had a bad introduction with her, having to to do HT at school, but no hard feelings.

Cheers for doing this @wonton, loads of stuff for me to go check out.

This was my list for references, the half formed legacy of my English degree

Vladimir Nabokov - 20 Points
Alan Moore
George RR Martin
Robert Lowell
Geraldine McCaughrean
Lord Byron
Sylvia Plath
Dante Alighieri
Ned Beauman
Philip Pullman
Enid Blyton
Philip Larkin
Shakespeare
Bill Bryson
HP Lovecraft
Aesychlus
Dodi Smith
Sir Thomas Malory
Mary Shelley
Jeffrey Eugenedies - 1 Point

Would have loved some poets to make the list (Lowell, Larkin, Hughes), can’t believe Shakey didn’t place, and seeing Bill Bryson on my list I’m surprised he didn’t turn up. Think 7 of the 20 made it which is more than my initial prediction, so I guess I’m a Disser after all.

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#3314

Here’s mine

Margaret Atwood
Alan Moore
Douglas Adams
M.R. James
Stephen King
Robin Hobb
China Mieville
Dick Francis
Gerald Durrell
John Le Carre
Marlon James
Michel Faber
Octavia E. Butler
Ada Palmer
Banana Yoshimoto
Ed McBain
Bryan K Vaughan
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Sara Peretsky
David Peace

#3315

Stopped by the big library today

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Tried a pretty insta-style pic but I don’t understand composition lol

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#3316

The only thing you forgot is the the vignette

#3317

Thought vignettes died along with hipstamatic

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#3318

Fopp wanker

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#3319

Not enough pictures in NW for your taste? :wink:

#3320

I actually think it was good to have a graphic novelist in the list, although Moore doesn’t really appeal to me, but as a key proponent of elitism ITT thought hyg needed a little pushback

#3321

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#3322

It started out (iirc) as a fiction list - or at least leaning heavily that way - which is the best explanation I’ve got for the absence of Bryson. I’d be very interested in a non-fiction list or lists, but that’s where my reading tendencies lie. Christ knows how you’d split it up. There’s a lot of potential combinations.

#3323

I should have voted for Tillie Walden. She’s the best graphic novelist.

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#3324

I had Conor Oberst and Joanna Newsom in my lists to begin with as lyricists, but swapped them out because they placed in the albums list and I thought it was more interesting to give other writers a shout

#3325

I should’ve had Chekhov on my list (a very surprising 0 votes, come think of it)!

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#3326

Not really elitist to rag on Murakami, is it? He’s not exactly James Patterson.