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post #91 of 102
11/26/10 at 3:54pm
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Originally Posted by Jarandas View Post
Mine:

- Chuck Palahniuck (every book but "Tell All" was a bit of a dissapointment)

- Dean Koontz (airport reading, but good, IMO)

- Bret Easton Ellis (obviously)

- Hemingway

- Michael Crichton (I enjoyed "Next")







Opus Dei!!!



La Obra Amigo.
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post #92 of 102
11/26/10 at 3:59pm
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Originally Posted by bunnyoswaldo View Post
I haven't seen John Kennedy Toole mentioned....A Confederacy of Dunces is an american classic

Hmmm, I thought I saw it somewhere on the list, and it stuck with me because I read ACaD years ago and remembered disliking it intensely. Whether I might have the same reaction today I can't say for sure, since Iammatt turned me around on Dostoyevsky a while back.
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post #93 of 102
11/26/10 at 9:14pm
W. Somerset Maugham
PG Wodehouse
Dashiell Hammett
Raymond Chandler
Lawrence Block

That's in no particular order, and based on the fact that I re-read a lot of their work. Elmore Leonard is way up there as well - great writer for character and dialogue.
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post #94 of 102
11/26/10 at 9:32pm
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Originally Posted by bunnyoswaldo View Post
I haven't seen John Kennedy Toole mentioned....A Confederacy of Dunces is an american classic
I thought someone listed it.

Who could forget Myrna Minx?
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post #95 of 102
11/26/10 at 9:41pm
Hans Christan Anderson.... homer.. 3-2pac 4 5
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post #96 of 102
11/26/10 at 9:49pm
^^^ Not the author/editor of the Louis Vuitton catalogue?
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post #97 of 102
11/26/10 at 9:59pm
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^^^ Not the author/editor of the Louis Vuitton catalogue?


i just like the end result.authors/designers= irrelevant...

*regrets making this username*
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post #98 of 102
11/26/10 at 10:30pm
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Originally Posted by Da Luis Vuitton Don View Post
regrets making this username
I honestly think it's one of the best of all time. It caused me to consider Hermes Simplex ... as a sock puppet, of course.
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post #99 of 102
11/27/10 at 10:54pm
Tolstoy
Chekhov
Dostoevski
Steinbeck
Nabokov
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post #100 of 102
11/28/10 at 1:56am
Both fiction and non-fiction included: Alexandre Dumas Alexander Hamilton Phillip K. Dick Homer Bill James
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post #101 of 102
11/28/10 at 2:23am
based on the stuff I've read ...

RA Salvatore
Piers Anthony
Terry Brooks
Agatha Christie

5th one's hard ... Homer, Dumas, Robert Munsch

and if we could count comic book writer, like to add Brian Michael Bendis
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post #102 of 102
11/28/10 at 2:34am
3 in each category:

Fiction:
David Foster Wallace
Ray Carver
Richard Yates

Poetry:
John Berryman
Robert Lowell
John Ashbery

Nonfiction:
Bill Nichols
Ray Carney
Richard Boothby
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