Choose an author who has written a lot of books you've read (at least 3). Rank those books you read by that author in a tier list.
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Alan Harrington
>Paradise One
>The White Rainbow
>The Secret Swinger
>Life in the Crystal Palace
>The Revelations of Dr. Modesto
>The Immortalist
>Psychopaths
They are actually tough for me to grade because they all have their charm.
never even heard of him. Should I read Paradise One since it's your favorite or is there a different book of his you think I should start with?
He was your traditional full immersion novel author from the sixties through the eighties. He moved from the East coast to Tucson and became an English professor at U of A. You want a gestalt on all of them? It'll take a bit.
Cant believe in doing this lol. Refuse to make an image
Dostoyevsky:
S- Demons, BK
A- The Idiot, The Eternal Husband
B- Notes From Underground, C&P, The Gambler, White Nights, The Adolescent
C - Notes From The Dead House, A Gentle Creature
D- Poor Folk
E
F- The Double
If you are alluding to Dostoevsky’s worst novels, then, indeed, I dislike intensely The Brothers Karamazov and the ghastly crime and Punishment rigamarole. No, I do not object to soul-searching and self-revelation, but in those books the soul, and the sins, and the sentimentality, and the journalese, hardly warrant the tedious and muddled search. Dostoyevsky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity – all this is difficult to admire. I do not like this trick his characters have of ”sinning their way to Jesus” or, as a Russian author, Ivan Bunin, put it more bluntly, ”spilling Jesus all over the place." Crime and Punishment’s plot did not seem as incredibly banal in 1866 when the book was written as it does now when noble prostitutes are apt to be received a little cynically by experienced readers. Dostoyevsky never really got over the influence which the European mystery novel and the sentimental novel made upon him. The sentimental influence implied that kind of conflict he liked—placing virtuous people in pathetic situations and then extracting from these situations the last ounce of pathos. Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist. He was a prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. I admit that some of his scenes, some of his tremendous farcical rows are extraordinarily amusing. But his sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes are not to be endured for one moment—by this reader anyway. Dostoyevsky seems to have been chosen by the destiny of Russian letters to become Russia’s greatest playwright, but he took the wrong turning and wrote novels.
Anonymous
A- left right game, king beaux of the quiet place
B- dog scape, candle cove, barasca, the river king, I’m a national park forrest ranger and I have some stories to share
C- midnight man, the three kings
D- my wife has been acting strange
F-lost episodes can be found again
Well I’m to drunk to remember much else I’m afraid
Gore Vidal.
I'm not even pretending to be objective. Here is it in order of most to least of my enjoyment.
>United States: Essays 1952–1992
>The Judgment of Paris
>Messiah
>Creation
>Kalki
>Julian
>1876
>Dark Green, Bright Red
>A Search for the King
>Vidal In Venice
>Lincoln
>Duluth
>Death in the Fifth Position
>Death Before Bedtime
>Death Likes It Hot
>Burr
>Empire
>Two Sisters
>Live From Golgotha
>The Smithsonian Institution
>Hollywood
>The Season of Comfort
>In a Yellow Wood
>Williwaw
>Washington, D.C.
>The Golden Age
S- Franny and Zooey
A- Nine Stories
B- Catcher in the Rye
C- Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters
I dunno
S- generally anything spurious or which ends in aporia. I like Euthyphro quite a lot
A- political stuff even though I don’t agree with it. Statesman and sophist
D- everything dogmatic about forms
S- War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Resurrection, The Kreutzer Sonata, The Cossacks, The Death of Ivan Ilych, Family Happiness
A-
B-
C-
D-
E-
F-
>JG Ballard
S - High-Rise
B - Running Wild, Concrete Island
C - Wind from Nowhere
D - Crash
F - Kingdom Come
Actually, Running Wild in A
I really liked Neuromancer but CZ and MLO were just different from Neuro
Because of that reason I made a more important tier list that tiers the Neuromancer covers. This is the only thing brazilians have that make me envy them tbh
Shakespeare
>S - A Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry Part One
>A - The Taming of the Shrew
>C - The Tempest
George Eliot
>S - The Mill on the Floss
>A - Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda
>B - Silas Marner
Frank Gardner
>S - Call of the Crocodile, Call of F. Garder
>A - Call of the Kappa, Jigoku
S- American Psycho
A- The Shards
B- Glamorama, Rules of Attraction
C- Less Than Zero, Lunar Park
D-
E-
F-
Norman Mailer
>SSS - Ancient Evenings
>C - Castle in the Forest
>D - An American Dream
Philip K Dick:
S - Ubik, A Scanner Darkly
A - The Man in the High Castle, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, VALIS
B - Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
C - Radio Free Albemuth
D - Clans of the Alphane Moon,
F -
You havent read Naked and the dead but youve read three others?
Based
Less than zero lower than rules of attraction? Please explain.
I have no good reason to read WW2 accounts generally. Everybody wrote one and Hitler was the good guy and I just don't give a frick.
PKD
>B+ - Cosmic Puppets
>C - Ubik
>E - Flow my Tears
God he sucks
S-tier
>Matthew
>Genesis
>Exodus
A-tier
>Luke
>Revelation
>Acts (although Acts is more B-tier, really, but I like it)
B-tier
>some major and minor prophets
>2 Kings
C-tier
>other major and minor prophets
F-tier
>Numbers
Coetzee novels and related work