Sergio’s Comments (group member since Sep 12, 2011)

Sergio’s comments from the Exceptional Books group.

Mine: http://ailuraismo.blogspot.com/

The unranked list:

1. Franz Kafka
2. Virgina Woolf
3. Samuel Beckett
4. Jorge Luis Borges
5. Julio Cortázar
6. Pablo Neruda
7. Italo Calvino
8. Aldous Huxley
9. Marcel Proust
10. George Orwell
11. Isaac Asimov
12. Arthur C. Clarke
13. Robert Musil
14. James Joyce
15. Herman Hesse
16. Ernest Hemingway
17. Bertrand Russell
18. Emil Cioran
19. Ludwig Wittgenstein
20. Albert Camus
21. Ernesto Sábato
22. Ricardo Piglia
23. Roberto Bolaño
24. Roberto Arlt
25. Mario Vargas Llosa
26. Gabriel García Márquez
27. Milan Kundera
28. Jean-Paul Sartre
29. André Breton
30. Arthur Conan Doyle
31. Agatha Christie
32. Truman Capote
33. Noam Chomsky
34. Karl R. Popper
35. Umberto Eco
36. Howard Philips Lovecraft
37. Charles Bukowski
38. Federico García Lorca
39. Mario Benedetti
40. Fernando Pessoa
41. José Saramago
42. Octavio Paz
43. Robert Musil
44. Bram Stoker
45. Adolfo Bioy Casares
46. James Baldwin
47. Chinua Achebe
48. John Steinbeck
49. Robert Penn Warren
50. Henry Williamson
51. Juan Ramón Jiménez
52. Elie Wiesel
53. H.M. Tomlinson

Please post here the name of the author or authors that you considered one of the best in the XX century, considering if the date of death or if the publishing of some of their works were in that century. Later we will publish a list in Listopia to choose the best.

I'll start nominating some of my favourites.

1. Franz Kafka
2. Virgina Woolf
3. Samuel Beckett
4. Jorge Luis Borges
5. Julio Cortázar
6. Pablo Neruda
7. Italo Calvino
8. Aldous Huxley
9. Marcel Proust
10. George Orwell
11. Isaac Asimov
12. Arthur C. Clarke
13. Robert Musil
14. James Joyce
15. Herman Hesse
16. Ernest Hemingway
17. Bertrand Russell
18. Emil Cioran
19. Ludwig Wittgenstein
20. Albert Camus
21. Ernesto Sábato
22. Ricardo Piglia
23. Roberto Bolaño
24. Roberto Arlt
25. Mario Vargas Llosa
26. Gabriel García Márquez
27. Milan Kundera
28. Jean-Paul Sartre
29. André Breton
30. Arthur Conan Doyle
31. Agatha Christie
32. Truman Capote
33. Noam Chomsky
34. Karl R. Popper
35. Umberto Eco
36. Howard Philips Lovecraft
37. Charles Bukowski
38. Federico García Lorca
39. Mario Benedetti
40. Fernando Pessoa
41. José Saramago
42. Octavio Paz
43. Robert Musil
44. Bram Stoker
45. Adolfo Bioy Casares

Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle.

It would be easier if we classify them for centuries, i think...

Hermione wrote: "The Corrected List:
1 Salman Rushdie
2 William Shakespeare
3 Mark Twain
4 A. A. Milne
5 Leo Tolstoy
6 James Joyce
7 J. D. Salinger
8 Jon Scieszka
9 Roald Dahl
10 Dr. Seuss
11 Oscar Wilde
12 Homer
..."

Ehmm sorry... just another observation, Haruki Murakamiis an author... Haruki is not one and another Murakami... Just a little help :)

Hermione wrote: "The List so far:
1 Salman Rushdie
2 William Shakespeare
3 Mark Twain
4 A. A. Milne
5 Leo Tolstoy
6 James Joyce
7 J. D. Salinger
8 Jon Scieszka
9 Roald Dahl
10 Dr. Seuss
11 Oscar Wilde
12 Homer
13 ..."

J.R.R. Tolkien is twice in the list...

Hermione wrote: "Craig wrote: "Tayyab/Killer of Mockingbirds/Eggman Walrus Taxman wrote: "Linda wrote: "I think that this is a very interesting discussion and opens the doors to many other authors that wouldn't nor..."

I agree, and my opinion is that J.K. Rowling shouldn't be considered a "Top 100" author. Just my opinion.

Tayyab/Killer of Mockingbirds/Eggman Walrus Taxman wrote: "David wrote: "Tahnk you, Tayyab."

Welcome :) Anyways, I plan on reading Waiting for Godot soon! Sounds like my type of book.......weird, strange, revolutionary, and funny!"

Beckett is an amazin writer! I know you'll like it!

David wrote: "Goodreads Top 100 Stage Plays of All Time
Unranked/Raw Data
As of 9-21-11

1. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot
2. No Exit by JP Sartre [book:No Exit and Three Othe..."

You just have an incredible taste!

Maude wrote: "I am not familiar with every book written by the above authors BUT how anyone could think of not adding J. K. Rowling to the list is ludicrous. Whether she is a top writer may be questionable but ..."

I agree, but you just can't put in the same list Shakespeare and J. K. Rowling... That would be a little bit inequitable... And agreeing with Craig "That would be better for a list of "100 most popular authors" I think. Stephenie Meyer and Dan Brown would fit that definition". But well, if someone is going to include it, i don't object.

Tayyab/Killer of Mockingbirds/Eggman Walrus Taxman wrote: "Sergio wrote: "Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Goethe, Dante, Borges, Cortázar, Poe, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Sartre, Pessoa, Calvino, Hesse..."

Oh yeah, good old Edgar and his barnyard friends. Dante was ..."

Stevenson, great one too!! I just re-edited my post and add some others...

Hermione wrote: "The List so far:
1 Salman Rushdie
2 William Shakespeare
3 Mark Twain
4 A. A. Milne
5 Leo Tolstoy
6 James Joyce
7 J. D. Salinger
8 Jon Scieszka
9 Roald Dahl
10 Dr. Seuss
11 Oscar Wilde
12 Homer
13 ..."

I think that the classics should be on the top...

1. Shakespeare
2. Cervantes
3. Dante Alighieri
4. Marcel Proust
5. Goethe
6. Dostoyevsky

and then the other authors.

Just a suggestion. ;)

Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Goethe, Dante, Borges, Cortázar, Poe, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Sartre, Pessoa, Calvino, Hesse, Haruki Murakami, Huxley, Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Sábato... for the nonce.

Watership Down by Richard Adams, Felidae By Akif Pirinçci

Emma Zunz, the Aleph, the Inmortal and the Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges, Continuity of Parks, the Night Face up and Bestiary by Julio Cortázar...

Orlando by Woolf too...

Rayuela by Cortázar, The unbearable lightness of being by Kundera... Some of my favorites...