Literature

LITERATURE should be one of your favorite subjects. If you're not reading, you're not learning everything that matters and you're not forcing your mind to work. It takes a bit of mental effort (and a dictionary) to read a book (and re-read the passages that you don't understand), but the end result is well worth it. Turn off the television, get off the Internet, get comfortable, and read a book. Do not lose the ability to think. Click on the links below to view my pages about various writers that I enjoy and/or admire.

Donald Barthelme Ambrose Bierce Heinrich Boll Ray Bradbury Richard Brautigan Charles Bukowski Mikhail Bulgakov Albert Camus Samuel Taylor Coleridge e. e. cummings Guy De Maupassant Emily Dickinson Feodor Dostoevsky Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Thomas Harris

HUMOR WRITERS/ CARTOONISTS: Dave Barry Gary Larson/ The Far Side Gahan Wilson

Hermann Hesse Greg Iles John Irving Shirley Jackson W. W. Jacobs James Joyce Franz Kafka John Keats Stephen King Dean Koontz Jerzy Kosinski Thomas Mann Edna St. Vincent Millay James Mills O. Henry

Cesare Pavese Saki J. D. Salinger Jean-Paul Sartre Anne Sexton George Bernard Shaw Percy Bysshe Shelley Shel Silverstein Whitley Strieber J. R. R. Tolkien Mark Twain Paul Verlaine Gore Vidal Kurt Vonnegut William Wordsworth

Some entertaining or marvelous writers that I haven't taken the time to create a page for: John Ashbery James Patterson John Sandford

You will perhaps notice a disproportionate number of male authors on this page. I'm sorry, but there are not many femme writers out there that I get into. SYLVIA PLATH was good, but crazy enough to be one of my ex-girlfriends. PATRICIA CORNWELL is entertaining if you're not in the mood to think.... Who else is there? GERTRUDE STEIN? Have you ever really tried to read her stuff?

Authors I intentionally left out because I think they are over-rated: THEODORE DREISER F. SCOTT FITZGERALD ERNEST HEMINGWAY ANNE RICE ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON JOHN UPDIKE

Edward R. Hamilton, Bookseller: A catalog of bargain books that are consistently of good quality and amazingly inexpensive. Start building your own library. Books are friends when your significant other doesn't call, and they comfort you in other times. Buy a book! NOTE: This is a link to a page that is not mine.

"...the light from the lighthouse that protects us as it pushes us away." JOHN ASHBERY DOWN BY THE STATION, EARLY IN THE MORNING

"There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." FLANNERY O'CONNOR

"...and a kitchen with a cheap gas stove and a refrigerator that was missing a leg and so listed to the left, and made sloped ice cubes." JOHN SANDFORD (Great attention to detail)

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." MARK TWAIN

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read." GROUCHO MARX

Reading can take you anywhere you want to go.

POSTSCRIPT "Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere." CHINESE PROVERB

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