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Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on Mar 6, 2021 5:43:37 GMT
Vladimir Nabokov Mikhail Bulgakov
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Jorge Luis Borges William Gaddis Ursula Le Guin Thomas Pynchon
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Post by nutsberryfarm π on Mar 6, 2021 17:11:01 GMT
Vladimir Nabokov Mikhail Bulgakov
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Jorge Luis Borges William Gaddis Ursula Le Guin Thomas Pynchon
Ursula ?π²
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Post by Hairynosedwombat on Mar 7, 2021 18:12:28 GMT
The list is missing John Fowles, Ursula leGuin. And if purely for popularity, JRR Tolkein.
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Post by nutsberryfarm π on Mar 8, 2021 1:37:52 GMT
Sinclair Lewis
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Post by amyghost on Mar 8, 2021 15:27:35 GMT
It's been fashionable for years to dismiss Lewis on the basis of claims such as his work being overly dated through reliance on slang idiom of the day, etc. To heck with that; it's a quibble. Read Babbitt for starters, and you'll still find some of the sharpest satire on The American Way of Life that's been penned at any time past or present--Chum Frink's poetic hymn to standardization in American commercial and cultural life remains one of the funniest and truest commentaries in that area that's made it into print. If you can't get to the keeness of the satire because of the archaisms in the dialogue, you're going about it wrong.
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Post by nutsberryfarm π on Mar 15, 2021 3:24:01 GMT
It's been fashionable for years to dismiss Lewis on the basis of claims such as his work being overly dated through reliance on slang idiom of the day, etc. To heck with that; it's a quibble. Read Babbitt for starters, and you'll still find some of the sharpest satire on The American Way of Life that's been penned at any time past or present--Chum Frink's poetic hymn to standardization in American commercial and cultural life remains one of the funniest and truest commentaries in that area that's made it into print. If you can't get to the keeness of the satire because of the archaisms in the dialogue, you're going about it wrong. Just starting it tonightβthanks!
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