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12/16/2015 12:47:30 PM

Paul Thomas Anderson
Noah Baumbach
Charlie Kaufman

12/16/2015 1:07:40 PM

Ann Coulter

12/16/2015 1:26:55 PM

Glenn Beck

12/16/2015 2:05:46 PM

Bill O'Reilly?

Actually, I've hardly read any modern books, unless Steven King counts. And his books are filled with fluff, but he's a great story-teller.

I know it's probably cliche, but I've read a couple Palahniuk books and thought they were pretty good.

12/16/2015 2:10:03 PM

Brandon Sanderson

12/17/2015 12:37:20 AM

god i hate Sanderson for some reason.... Besides the Stormlight archive, which is pretty good.

But his new series about super heroes who take over the world and the good guys are regular humans trying to take them out, while a neat premise, is so god damn cheesy.

The main protagonist's inner dialogue is so lame and cheesy I cringed often. I could only get through the first book in the series.

It definitely is written with this, "please pick me up to be the next gut wrenchingly douchey tween movie trilogy" Vibe.

12/17/2015 1:06:22 AM

JK Rowling
Nicole Krauss
Michael Chabon

12/17/2015 2:00:29 AM

What's the cut off?

12/17/2015 11:51:26 AM

The writers that wrote the ending for LOST.

"Okay guys, we clearly have no clue what we are doing, so lets just say the Island is powered by a magic Legends of the Hidden Temple style hot tub, then tell everyone they were all in a dream... but also have violin music and slow motion hugging to appeal to the emotions of less critical viewers. That way they forget about all the loose ends we couldn't tie up because we just introduced them all for filler and cheap drama that was of no significance to the overall story. The same story that we never had a plan for from the start.

12/17/2015 12:14:51 PM

dfw?

12/17/2015 2:13:09 PM

I can't recommend Ian Tregillis enough. 'The Mechanical' is the best novel I've read in ages:

12/18/2015 1:55:03 PM

Does Stephen King count? He clearly started writing way before our generation but he is still pumping out great books and has been for like 40 years.

12/18/2015 2:00:20 PM

Too many different subject areas out there, and this is too broad of a topic.

King is a masterful story teller, but he doesn't really have any non-fiction. Ellis is a great writer of history, but I doubt he's ever done any fiction.

12/18/2015 2:04:06 PM

Implying "non-fiction" exists

12/18/2015 2:06:51 PM

Who said it had to be non-fiction?

12/18/2015 2:10:07 PM

I didn't. I was just saying that it is hard to pen down "greatest writers" without giving a genre with which to narrow it down.

12/18/2015 10:00:37 PM

it's hard to pin down "greatest writers" without giving an individual subjective human brain with which to narrow it down.

king has his memoir/craft book fwiw, i haven't read it yet. i feel like he must have some other nonfiction.

he's certainly v prolific and imaginative.

12/19/2015 12:51:23 AM

Michael Chabon
Neil Gaiman
Jonathan Franzen
Jennifer Egan

King is one of my favorites but I'd hesitate to call him our generation. He is almost 70 years old...

[Edited on December 20, 2015 at 3:41 PM. Reason : s?]

12/20/2015 3:37:22 PM

kings written non-fiction, theres some baseball book

12/21/2015 8:45:08 PM

Quote :

"I was just saying that it is hard to pen down "greatest writers" without giving a genre with which to narrow it down."

Write me a novel about it

12/23/2015 3:18:18 PM

Murakami

12/31/2015 2:12:43 AM

Some greats that I don't think have been mentioned yet:
David Mitchell
Cormac McCarthy
David Sedaris

1/2/2016 10:18:06 AM

David Foster Wallace

1/5/2016 8:34:54 AM

Quote :

"god i hate Sanderson for some reason.... Besides the Stormlight archive, which is pretty good. But his new series about super heroes who take over the world and the good guys are regular humans trying to take them out, while a neat premise, is so god damn cheesy. "

although I haven't read Elantris yet, the 7 mistborn novels aren't like this at all ... check them out if you liked stormlight maybe?

1/5/2016 9:19:11 AM

Cormac McCarthy was born in the great depression..

1/5/2016 9:22:23 AM

fair enough. I'm just thinking of some of my favorite living authors. I had no idea how old McCarthy was.

1/5/2016 7:00:04 PM

i'm pretty sure some original TWW users were born during the great depression as well.

1/6/2016 10:29:49 AM

jk

[Edited on January 6, 2016 at 1:56 PM. Reason : jk]

1/6/2016 1:55:40 PM