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Authors Who Changed You And Society

Does "authors" here include authors of political writings intended to change society -- Voltaire, Jefferson, Paine, Marx, Bentham, Mill, etc.? Or are you only asking for novelists and poets?
 
William Trevor, John Banville, Giacomo Joyce. Flann O'Brien, Edna O'Brien, José Saramago, Orhan Pamuk. Margaret Atwood. Julian Barnes.

Oh yeah, too many.
 
dougsan said:
I have been unable to locate a thread dedicated to the writers whose words made us writers, poets and readers.

My list of important writers starts with George Orwel, a story I'll share sometime.
After Mr. Orwel came Hemingway -- live life as a man, not like me, but as a man.

And the list grew to poets, e.e. cummings, my favorite poet to this day, another story for another day.

So, please, who are the writers who impacted the creative side of you?
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Wikipedia
 
KingOrfeo said:
Does "authors" here include authors of political writings intended to change society -- Voltaire, Jefferson, Paine, Marx, Bentham, Mill, etc.? Or are you only asking for novelists and poets?
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There were many more "authors" who wrote politically than those that actually had any impact.

One of the people related to my direct ancestors wrote a book in the early 17th Century that had a significant impact on emigration from England.

But the impact of his book wasn't that which he intended. People read it, said "This is a load of rubbish. It can't be true." but it started them thinking that the New World might be a better place to go to.

He wrote about the Americas with detailed advice to those intending to go, but there is no evidence that he had been to the Americas, nor that he had met anyone who had. The internal evidence in the book suggests that he made everything up based on what he thought the Americas ought to be like.

His book used to be very rare because most owners threw it away in disgust. It is now available on the internet but is still not worth reading.
 
I expected posters would want to explain the impact special authors had on them, not list authors they have liked or had to read. Not that what posters chose to do is unacceptable. Anything goes, obviously. I did expect stories that explain, such as:

The first book I ever read outside of school, and I did not spend a lot of time in school, was a book I stole when I was 14. A bunch of us decided to start a gang (I use the term quite loosely). As a joke we called ourselves the Silas Marners and decided the initiation into the gang was to steal a book from a particular drugstore. I stole "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" by George Orwell because it was the easiest of the choices offered me. I threw the book in a corner of the shit hole I was living in and forgot about it. In time I began hitchhiking with California a goal. During this time I read the book I had stolen. To me it was a dark forboding tale of the man trying to beat us down. I loved it so much I stole "1984" and then moved on to Hemingway. Thus was born a reader. Many years later I re-read "Keep the Aspadistra Flying" and realized it is a wonderful comedy, very funny. If I had been wise enough to understand the novel when first I read it I probably would never have read a second book. I was living a dark, ugly life when I read it for the first time and "needed" a book that was on my side.
 
dougsan said:
I expected posters would want to explain the impact special authors had on them, not list authors they have liked or had to read. Not that what posters chose to do is unacceptable. Anything goes, obviously. I did expect stories that explain, such as:

The first book I ever read outside of school, and I did not spend a lot of time in school, was a book I stole when I was 14. A bunch of us decided to start a gang (I use the term quite loosely). As a joke we called ourselves the Silas Marners and decided the initiation into the gang was to steal a book from a particular drugstore. I stole "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" by George Orwell because it was the easiest of the choices offered me. I threw the book in a corner of the shit hole I was living in and forgot about it. In time I began hitchhiking with California a goal. During this time I read the book I had stolen. To me it was a dark forboding tale of the man trying to beat us down. I loved it so much I stole "1984" and then moved on to Hemingway. Thus was born a reader. Many years later I re-read "Keep the Aspadistra Flying" and realized it is a wonderful comedy, very funny. If I had been wise enough to understand the novel when first I read it I probably would never have read a second book. I was living a dark, ugly life when I read it for the first time and "needed" a book that was on my side.
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Have you ever paid for a book?
 
 
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