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I expected you to have quite a few as well. StormCrow Send a noteboard - 01/10/2010 03:25:06 AM

There are literally hundreds of authors I could name. Some not named (as well as a few that were) would include Henry Fielding (esp. for Tom Jones), Lautréamont, Huysmans, Thackeray, Anne Lennox, William Beckford, Thomas Mann, Thomas Wolfe, Robert Penn Warren, Flannery O'Connor, Ludovico Ariosto, Melville, García Márquez, Borges, Cortázar, Faulkner, Eliot, Tasso, Boiardo, Gide, Flaubert, Naguib Mahfouz, Nabokov, Flann O'Brien, Max Ernst, Saramago, Italo Calvino, Twain, James Thurber, Roberto Arlt, D.H. Lawrence, Norman Mailer, Günter Grass, Truman Capote, Fuentes, Rulfo, Rivera, Stendhal, Fitzgerald, Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, Saul Bellow, Graham Greene, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Boccaccio, Dante, Milton, Alexander Pope, Sterne, Zola, Collette, Chaucer, Marx, Hitler, Stanek...err... ;)


Again, there are new names for me in here that I will need to look into. I forgot about Upton Sinclair. The Jungle was awesome. Where do you cut off into "silly" at the end? Just wondering if Marx fell into that or serious.

If you had to suggest just one, which would it be and why? (please not, "because it's good" )

Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find, simply because it covers a fading South in language that moves those who have grown up in this fine region and it confounds those who cannot see past the apocalyptic veneer.


Will have to look into this one. Apocalyptic and south sound good together. hehe I'm a transplant from the midwest.
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Powdered Soup! StormCrow - 30/09/2010 09:23:51 PM 958 Views
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It's cool. StormCrow - 06/10/2010 04:42:13 PM 1018 Views
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Re: A classic is really any book with enduring value. Tom - 30/09/2010 10:57:23 PM 855 Views
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It is good. *NM* Camilla - 30/09/2010 09:34:47 PM 373 Views
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I study them, apparently. Ghavrel - 30/09/2010 08:44:40 PM 984 Views
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Re: The Classics - general discussion / survey .. edited. Camilla - 30/09/2010 08:58:14 PM 956 Views
I knew you would have a rather lengthy list. I was worried until the edit came through. StormCrow - 01/10/2010 02:26:34 AM 961 Views
Good survey. Legolas - 30/09/2010 10:23:18 PM 966 Views
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I generally do. Camilla - 30/09/2010 11:19:05 PM 894 Views
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Oh, and link to the Flecker poem: Legolas - 30/09/2010 11:42:30 PM 783 Views
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