Re: The best American author of the 20th century is....
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you are right on about this. the reason this 'best of' thread is worse than most is because people are going to list a lot of authors that they don't know real well and don't like that much, but that they heard in literature class were pretty good.
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Exactly.
I can't imagine a 20 something year old can more easily identify with things from a Hemingway book than a Thompson book, unless they haven't read one.
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