reineke wrote:Other lists. Culled from my log. Xmmm loves these:
J. Peder Zane
The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books
"From David Foster Wallace (#1: The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis) to Stephen King (#1: The Golden Argosy, a 1955 anthology of the best short stories in the English language), the collection offers a rare glimpse of the building blocks of great creators' combinatorial creativity—because, as Austin Kleon put it, "you are a mashup of what you let into your life."
What are my favorite books? When Eight Bells Toll, Running Blind, The Sacred Book of the Werewolf, Wolves in the City: the Death of French Algeria, and The Great Siege, Malta 1565. A couple of those aren't even fiction, but hey, they're my favorite books.
Those authors: MacLean, Bagley, Pelevin, Henissart, Bradford.
My list of what I think are the best authors I've read, is completely different (Melville, Greene, Mishima, Dick, Dostoyevsky).
Zane is taking a list of writers' favorite books, and transmogrifying that into a list of the world's best authors. And that. Is. Utterly bogus.