who are the best american writer/novelist?

[Bretty Poy32]

Oh good grief no.

Let's see, my picks for American authors:

Joseph Heller
George RR Martin
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Anne Rice before she caught Jesus
Philip K Dick
Harper Lee

Yeah that should do it.

why you dont like stephen king?

[squealpiggy]

why you dont like stephen king?

He's a bad author. Bad. His writing is terrible.

Ever watch Garth Marenghi's Dark Place? The character is based on Stephen King.

[Bretty Poy32]

He's a bad author. Bad. His writing is terrible.

Ever watch Garth Marenghi's Dark Place? The character is based on Stephen King.

not familiar with the tv show.
i have the 'the stand uncut edition'

[talip bin osman]

i know i'll forget someone...

cormac mccarthy is one of the best in the business...

steven bochco was / is one of the true greats in stories involving the role of cops in our society... i was a sucker for hill street blues (re-runs) and NYPD blue...

[StarshipTrooper]

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky are bit better than both though.

Poet

[Bretty Poy32]

i know i'll forget someone...

cormac mccarthy is one of the best in the business...

steven bochco was / is one of the true greats in stories involving the role of cops in our society... i was a sucker for hill street blues (re-runs) and NYPD blue...

james franco making a movie of child of god by cormac

[squealpiggy]

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky are bit better than both though.

Poet

Melville? Seriously!? Without a doubt Moby Dick is the absolute worst thing I have ever read. I mean Catcher in the Rye was shit but at least it had the good grace to be short. Moby Dick was a monstrous rambling jumble of wordiness that certainly captured the essence of sitting in a whaling vessel for months on end with nothing to do. What a bag of turds.

[-Lowkey-]

George RR Martin just because his "a song of ice and fire" novel's are some of the best I have ever read and by far the best from an American author.

[NEETzsche]

herman melville; sherwood anderson; john dos passos; william faulkner; saul bellow; nathanael west . . .

love me some david foster wallace and william gaddis, too.

vonnegut is overrated. he's an okay introduction to postmodernist lit but pretty light on substance.

[kadyo's]

I don't know who the best american writers are but there are so many books in our house while I was growing up. I started with novels by Harold Robins then got hooked up with western stories by Lois L'amour then science fictions by Isaac Asimov then James Michener and Robert Ludlum. I have read so many books by American authors but I forgot their names. I lost interest with books when I started working.