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The rules: Don't take too long to think about it. List 15 authors (I'm including fiction and non-fiction) who have influenced you and who will always stick with you. List the first 15 you can identify in no more than 15 minutes.

1. J.R.R. Tolkien

2. Donatien Alphonse François

3. Dante Alighieri

4. Umberto Eco

5. Camille Paglia

6. Mikhail Bakhtin (his work on Rabelais)

7. Jean de la Fontaine

8. Mário de Andrade

9. Arthur Conan Doyle

10. H.P. Lovecraft

11. Murray Rothbard

12. Friedrich Nietzsche

13. Ayn Rand

14. H.G. Wells

15. Albert Camus

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KassandrA dot_c0m 2y ago

1. Albert Camus

2. Friedrich Nietzsche

3. Dostojevski

4. Houellbecq

5. Baudelaire

6. Trakl

7. Virgile

8. Chateaubriand

9. Huysmans

10. La Bruyère

11. La Fontaine

12. Goethe

13. Balzac

14. Lucrèce

15. Marc-Aurele

Luigi 2y ago

We have some good authors in common, I see. I grew up reading La Fontaine. And I also love Houellebecq. Good list!

KassandrA dot_c0m 2y ago

let's resist the huge pile of shit that surrounds us

Luigi 2y ago

Oh, À Rebours/Against Nature is another personal favourite. Nice to see Huysmans mentioned too

KassandrA dot_c0m 2y ago

I should have place Huysmans wayyyy higher in my list.

Brunswick 2y ago

1. Forest Mims III

2. Moses

3. St. John

4. Einstein

5. Newton

6. ARRL

7. Seth McEvoy

8. Asimov

9. Johnny Cash

10. Roger Miller

11. Miro Samek

12. Walter Oney

13. Phil Zimmermann

14. Murray Rothbard

15. Satoshi Nakamoto

nobody 2y ago

Not 15, but still something:

1. Haruki Murakami

2. Jane Austen

3. Sylvia Plath

4. Arundhati Roy (for The God of Small Things)

5. Charles Dickens

Steve Dragswolf 2y ago

In no particular order:

1. Ernest Hemingway

2. Sherman Alexie

3. Allen Ginsberg

4. Louise Erdrich

5. N. Scott Momaday

6. Edgar Allan Poe

7. Cormac McCarthy

8. Eugene Peterson

9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

10. Anton Checkov

11. Leo Tolstoy

12. Katherine Anne Porter

13. Vine Deloria Jr

14. Donna Tartt

15. NT Wright

levlion 2y ago

1) Fyodor Dostoevsky

2) Friedrich Nietzsche

3) Plato

4) Leo Tolstoy

5) Aristotle

6) Hermann Hesse

7) Dante Alighieri

8) John Milton

9) Jonathan Haidt

10) Martin Heidegger

11) Gabriel Garcia Marquez

12) Albert Camus

13) Boris Pasternak

14) Adele Faber

15) Jordan Peterson

Luigi 2y ago

Camus, Dante and Nietzsche. And also Dostoyevsky. Good ones

levlion 2y ago

If you have a child (or plan to have one) dont miss adele fabers book how to talk to kids so they listen and to listen to kids so they talk)

levlion 2y ago

Oh shit just realized i missed one of my top all time thinkers :: Carl Jung!!

bkb2443 2y ago

1.) Bastiat

2.) Tolkien

3.) Ayn Rand

4.) Marcus Aurelius

5.) Epictetus

6.) Seneca

7.) Orwell

8.) Steven Kotler

9.) Mises

10.) Jeffrey Tucker

11.) Ryan Holliday

12.) Annie Duke

13.) Hoppe

14.) Brene Brown

15.) J.S. Morin

₿/🐈‍⬛ 2y ago

Many in the tread, however a shout out to the ones that shaped the sence of humour like Terry Pratchett, Jerome Jerome and P.J Wodehouse. Also Khalil Gibran as life in general.