If you were trying to teach someone how to be a good writer, who would be your picks to read? You get five choices MAX. Not who's the best, or who's the most fun to read, but who would you learn best from if you read? Although there will be an overlap there.

Hugo, Shakespeare, Wilde, Hunter S Thompson and maybe Nabokov

I think that gives you a good spread of styles and genres to learn from.

>>24520240 (OP)
Homer; KJV

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>>24520240 (OP)
I recommend reading more than 5 authors

>>24521108
Alright fuck it nice one. Isn't Jordan Peterson a retard? I can't believe he said those things and cried! LOL

>>24520240 (OP)
>Hunter S Thompson

>>24521326
I'm not saying he's the best, but his style is kind of on the far end of a chaotic, realist, truthfulness slider (in which Tolstoy would be on the far opposite), so I think if you wanted to learn, reading both would be a good idea. Your thoughts?

James Patterson
Tom Clancy
Nicolas Sparks
Meg Cabot
Stephen King

>>24521090
Errm that thread was mine and it was a genuine question. You just gotta market your threads better