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ernie hemingway

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Henry Miller

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Steinbeck.

The first one to say Bret Easton Ellis gets a smack.

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Hunter Stockton Thompson.

(I expect to be flamed for this so FU in advance.)

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Stephen King by a mile

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The question was who is the best not who used to be a good writer but has been pumping out as many books as he possibly can before the public catches on to the fact he hasn't written a good book in about 10 years

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HST is OK. If anyone nominates Kurt Vonnegut they should get banned.

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If we were discussing non-fiction, how would Michael Lewis fare? I enjoy his non-fiction books way more than any fictional ones.

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Walker Percy

Yugoslav

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Raymond Carver.

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I would say that Philip Roth & Joyce Carol Oates have to be near the top, at least in terms of technical skill w/the English language. Can't fault anyone for picking Papa or Bradbury, of course.
This guy ain't bad either, tho I've only read the baseball book. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

Steve King will always be my personal fave, but as has been noted his fiction has been at least 90% crap for the last 15 years. He's actually gotten much better as an essayist in that time, when he's not whining about politics. The best thing he's written since Different Seaons is prolly the thing about his kid playing Little League.

Hey, is Ayn Rand American? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]