People who like this writer are more likely to also like other writers such as
Samuel Beckett, Charles Bukowski, Umberto Eco, Nikolai Gogol, J. D. Salinger, Vladimir Nabokov, Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, Albert Camus and Franz Kafka.
People who like this writer say their favourite books, by any writer, are:
Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Lolita, In the Penal Colony, Gravity's Rainbow, Nine Stories, The Voyage of the Beagle, The Communist Manifesto, The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Poems and plays they tend to like include
John Donne: The Holy Sonnets, Song of Myself, Leaves of Grass, The Prelude and High Windows.
People who like this writer are more likely than most to think of themselves as
Alternative.
Their general interests are more likely to include
Philosophy, Art, Playing an instrument, Mathematics and English & Literature.
Issues that are important to them include
University Education and Abortion.
This writer is particularly popular among readers of
The Herald.
Fans of this writer tend to like brands such as
Lagavulin, Laphroaig, Liberty, Glenmorangie and Sony Walkman.
Movies they are statistically more likely to have enjoyed are:
Vertigo, The Seventh Seal, Night and Fog, 8½, Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown, Repulsion, Wild Strawberries, The Battle of Algiers, Rashomon and Bride of Frankenstein.
People who dislike this writer tend to prefer writers such as Anthony Trollope, Robert Ludlum, Ian Fleming, Ben Okri and John Wyndham.
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