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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Books-

Lovecraft

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Stephen King

Brandon Sanderson

Scripts-

Meh, I don't really like films all that much tbh.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett

Scripts: Tarrintino The Coens Charlie Kaufman

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Don't forget that Neil Gaiman writes scripts too. Some episodes of Dr. Who, Nevwrwhere, Good Omens, American Goods, Lucifer, Sandman

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Douglas Adams for Comedy

Chuck Palahniuk for odd novels

Hunter S. Thompson for Gonzo

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

George Orwell - Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four Adam Kay - Kay's Anatomy Carl Sagan - Contact

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
  • Patrick O'Brian
  • Hilary Mantel
  • Shirley Jackson
  • Peter Straub
  • Donna Tartt
  • Douglas Adams
  • Jane Austen
  • Mary Shelley
  • Sylvia Plath (poetry, fiction not so much)
  • Richard Matheson
  • Ursula K Le Guin
  • Connie Willis
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

This is a top tier list! The few I don't recognize I'll check out based on your rec.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Roger Zelazny

Neil Gaiman

Gregory Bateson

Dan O'Brien

Terrence McKenna

Alan Moore

Ken Kesey

Albert Camus

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Isaac Asimov

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Books: Craig Alanson, Isaac Asimov, Douglas Adams, Brandon Sanderson, and so many more.

Scripts: Aaron Sorkin, Brett Goldstein

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

David Mamet - his scripts are outstanding because they are written just as actual real life conversations.