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[TheEschaton]

I know I'm a dork, but I was reading my favorite poet this evening, and I was wondering what drove y'all in the world of literature.

That being said: favorite poet, poem, author, and book.

Poet: T.S. Eliot. Hands down
Poem: Aforementioned's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", with his "The Hollow Men" as a close second. If picking a non-Eliot poem, Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for Death" or Poe "The Raven".

Author: Stephen King. No questions.
Book: The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The book changed my life in college. I know it's 800 pages, but once I started reading it, I was enraptured. I finished it in one sitting (9 hours, one day).

-TheEschaton-
P.S. As per my SN, I also like eschatological works, like Metz's "Passion for God", and Bell's "Liberation Theology after the end of history".

[Bobmuhthol]

Poets are dumb. Poems are dumb.

Favorite Author: Max Barry
Favorite Book: Jennifer Government by Max Barry.

[GSLeloo]

Poet: Edgar Allen Poe
Author: Anne McCaffrey
Book: Long Hot Summoning or Joy Luck Club OR Princess Bride.

[TheEschaton]

Do you play the online sim, Jennifer Gov't, Bob?

I did. I gave it up after a month or so because the issues were always the same.

Yeah, Democratic Socialist republic!

_The_Eschaton_

[Edaarin]

Poet: Victor Hugo
Poem: La Ville prise
Author: Alexandre Dumas
Book: Not really a book...but short story..."Flowers for Algernon"
Guess if I had to go with a book at gunpoint it'd be Count of Monte Cristo

[Mint]

Originally posted by Bobmuhthol
Poets are dumb. Poems are dumb.



Dr. Suess is NOT dumb. All the rest are.

Stephen King as well (pre accident, his post accident stuff does not seem as involving) or Dean Koontz because I like easy reads.

Favorite book: anyone I am currently reading.

[GSLeloo]

Mint!!! Give me an example of Stephen King pre-accident and post-accident. Because as I said on SR, I adored these early books of his and then I read this one that made me want to vomit.

[Mint]

Originally posted by GSLeloo
Mint!!! Give me an example of Stephen King pre-accident and post-accident. Because as I said on SR, I adored these early books of his and then I read this one that made me want to vomit.

Compare The Stand to Buick 8 and it is like a different author wrote them

[TheEschaton]

I liked the DTV, the Wolves of the Calla. But it was definately....different....from the last four.

Other than that, I sorta kinda agree, on the post-accident stuff. I had to read every sentence in Dreamcatcher about 5 times.

-TheE-

[Bobmuhthol]

<<Do you play the online sim, Jennifer Gov't, Bob?>>

I've played it a bunch of times, but I always stopped playing out of boredom.

Poet: I lack the abstract thinking to understand poetry well, i guess. It just does not touch me in anyway...
Author:George R. R. Martin
Book:The Entire Song of Fire and Ice Series

[Drew2]

I used to read all the time. Now I rarely do.

As for poetry... i understand most of it.. It just never really makes me think "OH WOW THIS IS NEATO" or anything. Some poetry speaks to me... the rest I wonder why anyone bothered writing it.

[TheEschaton]

In high school, I thought the same of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Tayre. Now it's one of my favorite poems.

[GSLeloo]

Ok with King for me it was comparing The Shining to The Dark Tower Series.

[TheEschaton]

The Dark Tower Series? You don't like the Dark Tower series???????
Blasphemy!

And besides, the first four books were written pre-accident. Hell, the Gunslinger was written right after Carrie, and the Wastelands I believe was right around The Stand time.

-TheEschaton-

[Drew2]

Robert Frost writes some good stuff. I liked "The Road Not Taken" along with a few others. Emily Dickinson was too drab for me. Those are the only ones that really stick out.


Oh, and I liked whoever wrote "Where the Sidewalk Ends". :D

[AnticorRifling]

Dante.

[GSLeloo]

These were the king books I read and adored: The Shining, Salems Lot, Pet Semetary, It, Bag of Bones. Then I read The Gunslinger and thought I just read a piece of crap. That is what hell would be, if every book around was The Gunslinger.

sorry dont get me wrong I know what I am wanted to say about poetry, but I inside know its just bullshit comeing out.

[TheEschaton]

Be still my raging heart.

Roland of Gilead is perhaps the most fascinating character King ever drew. And Randall Flagg from The Stand is in the series.

[HarmNone]

Poet(s): W.B. Yeats, E. A. Poe, T.S. Eliot
Poem: A Dream Within a Dream by E.A. Poe
Author(s): The world-builders; Tolkien, Herbert, Michener
Book(s): The Hobbit, For Whom the Bell Tolls...too many more to list ;)

HarmNone

[Vixen]

Favorite poet: Maya Angelou
Favorite poem: Shakespeare sonnet XII
Favorite book: The complete works of shakespeare
(yes I am a nerd)
Favorite author: Way too many to name

[peam]

Poets: Allen Ginsburg, Langston Hughes, Basho. (On a side note, I HATE EMILY DICKENSON. TAKE YOUR DRONING, MIND-NUMBING HYMN VERSE AND CHOKE.)

Author is too hard. Jack Kerouac's "On The Road" kicks ass, though.

[Mint]

Originally posted by HarmNone
Poet(s): W.B. Yeats, E. A. Poe, T.S. Eliot
Poem: A Dream Within a Dream by E.A. Poe
Author(s): The world-builders; Tolkien, Herbert, Michener
Book(s): The Hobbit, For Whom the Bell Tolls...too many more to list ;)

HarmNone


Oh my god, how could I forget Dune??!!?

[Mint]

Originally posted by GSLeloo
These were the king books I read and adored: The Shining, Salems Lot, Pet Semetary, It, Bag of Bones. Then I read The Gunslinger and thought I just read a piece of crap. That is what hell would be, if every book around was The Gunslinger.

Gunslinger/Darktower series are all crap pre and post accident in my opinion anyway.

[peam]

Darktower is the best writing King will ever do.

[Bobmuhthol]

I concur.

[Jenisi]

I think I'm the only girl in the world that doesn't enjoy poetry

[Mint]

Originally posted by peam
Darktower is the best writing King will ever do.

You need to be strapped down and be forced to listen to someone read the collected works of Danielle Steele.

[Latrinsorm]

Poet: Edgar Poe
Poem: The Bells (read it out loud, oh my God I thought I would explode) (you can only breathe between stanzas, though, to make it work good)

Author: Robert Crais
Book: The Bible (ha ha) or Lullaby Town

(Whitman is not a poet)

[Hanksbane]

Poet: Um..not really sure, I dont really read poetry, I write my own kinda but I only read what was required in High School, or that of my old girlfriends

Author: Philip Kerr, RA Salvatore, Crichton

Book: Hitchhikers's Guide to the Galaxy (The whole series always makes me smile)

[Edited on 1-30-2004 by Hanksbane]

[MaryJane]

My favorite poem:


GOLDEN RING


Trying to talk to you these days

trying to get a hold of you

to hold onto what we once had

what I once felt

it's like sticking your hand in the toilet

filled with shit

trying to reach past the refuse

and discover the ring

you think MAYBE fell in:

It's something I do

but I'm not too happy about it.


It's by this guy Jon Berger. His website is located at http://www.jonberger.com


Edit to add: My favorite book is Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.

[Edited on 1-30-2004 by MaryJane]

[Nakiro]

I give. What was King's big literature changing accident?

[Wezas]

Old favorite: Stephen King, Dean Koontz

New Favorite: Jeffery Deaver (Blue Nowhere), Stefan Fatsis (Word Freak)

[Wezas]

Originally posted by Nakiro
I give. What was King's big literature changing accident?

He was run over by a van in 1999.

http://www.cnn.com/books/news/9906/20/stephen.king.accident.02/?related

[Mint]

If anyone wants the author's own words about this accident go to:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,380113,00.html

I read the book that this excerpt was taken from and it ranks up there with some of his best stuff even though it is non fiction so I guess some of his post accident stuff was good.

Oh and in this book he also talks about his difficulty getting back into writing because of the accident and his own doubts that he would be able to.


[Edited on 1-30-2004 by Mint]