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08-30-2005, 09:40 PM
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Yeah as a person he is much more a Russian than an American. However his most famous book, Lolita, is nothing if not an essentially American novel.
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08-30-2005, 09:41 PM
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Pynchon or Delillo. Still haven't read any Faulkner novels though. I don't think Hemingway is right. [/ QUOTE ] pynchon is awesome, delillo not so much. faulkner is good, hemingway i'm not a huge fan of but i can recognize that he did things in a completely new way and respect that. no mention of ellison or fitzgerald so far?
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#54
08-30-2005, 10:28 PM
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[ QUOTE ] Pynchon or Delillo. Still haven't read any Faulkner novels though. I don't think Hemingway is right. [/ QUOTE ] pynchon is awesome, delillo not so much. faulkner is good, hemingway i'm not a huge fan of but i can recognize that he did things in a completely new way and respect that. no mention of ellison or fitzgerald so far? [/ QUOTE ] Not Delillo? Just surprised is all considering you like Pynchon. I do confess that I'm an ex baseball player I the first 60 pages of Underworld just blew me away. With you on Ellison and Fitzgerald but I don't think they were prolific enough? Granted, I've only read Invisible Man and Gatsby.
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#55
08-30-2005, 10:38 PM
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Are we counting TS Eliot as American or British? [/ QUOTE ] I say we keep credit for him for everything until he joined the Church of England, which gives us most of his great poems and cuts out the plays, which I mostly don't like. NT
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08-30-2005, 11:07 PM
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i'm partial to cassady and kerouac, i think going with hemmingway is a little too obvious [/ QUOTE ] Aside from Neal Cassady being a badass, which he was, he wasn't really a great author.
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08-30-2005, 11:09 PM
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Hemingway when he wasnt being precious.
Faulkner, drunk OR sober. George Garrett John Dos Passos Steinbeck
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