Hey, I just registered today. Chuck Palahniuk is really the one who got me into reading oh so long ago and I've read most of his books, but that was a long time ago. Right now I'm really into Hunter S. Thompson, and I'm reading Dante's Inferno, Milton's Samson Agnostises, and Tom Wolfe's Look Homeward Angel right now and am really enjoying them all. I've read some H.P. Lovecraft, and George Orwel, and my favorite poets are Charles Bukowski, T.S. Elliot, Frank O'Hara, W.B. Yeats, and Robert Frost. I'm positive I'm forgetting some though. They'll hit me once I press the submit button.
I posted a short story I've written in The Writers Corner, here:
http://www.writingforums.com/showthread.php?t=76265
If you want to read it and help me out, thats cool. If not, thats cool too, I'm just introducing myself.