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30 Writers Other Writers Loved To Hate
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| July 8, 2014
| Arianna Rebolini
Posted on 07/18/2014 11:34:05 AM PDT by EveningStar
30 Writers Other Writers Loved To Hate
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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: authors; writers; writing
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To: Borges
More than I ever cared to read. At least 2 in high school, 3 in college. My college professor did her dissertation on Faulkner. All of them forgettable. Flags in the Dust, The Town, Collected Stories were some of them. Mostly plodding, prodigious, regionally oriented prose that would bore a dullard to death. That said, to each his own.
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posted on
07/18/2014 12:32:57 PM PDT
by
RJS1950
(The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
To: Borges
That is why you can't find any English prose in this day and age. Reminds me of Joyce in the early ‘70s, all the English Lit majors starting writing in imitation of the master.
They forgot that Joyce spoke five languages and had a view of Irish language and history. All of which was woven into his stories.
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posted on
07/18/2014 12:33:39 PM PDT
by
Little Bill
(EVICT Queen Jean)
To: Borges
O Henry wrote some great short stories.
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posted on
07/18/2014 12:36:52 PM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
To: yarddog
I agree with you on Capote. My first exposure was “In Cold Blood”. Rereading some of the paragraphs I could see what artistry went into the sentence structure and words carefully chosen to create a scene, emotion or action. The man painted a paragraph like a great artist using an easel.
To: Little Bill
Thanks for clarifying that.
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posted on
07/18/2014 12:40:14 PM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
07/18/2014 12:40:26 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: EveningStar
something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it. Vladimir Nabokov
LOL that’s wonderful.
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posted on
07/18/2014 12:41:02 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: Little Bill
Just talking looks here. She was a babe.
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posted on
07/18/2014 12:41:18 PM PDT
by
TheThirdRuffian
(RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
To: Starstruck
I haven’t read the list, yet... but Twain’s take on James Fenimore Cooper is hilarious.
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posted on
07/18/2014 12:48:13 PM PDT
by
Chasaway
(Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?)
To: RJS1950
‘Flags in the Dust’ was written before he found his voice. You probably don’t like Joyce or Pynchon either I’m guessing.
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posted on
07/18/2014 12:49:13 PM PDT
by
Borges
To: DeFault User
I spent 5 years in Garden City, Kansas and lived within easy walking distance of the grave yard in which the Clutter family was buried.
I used to hunt and shoot on land belonging to KBI and later FBI agent who solved the murders. Just remembered his name, Alvin Dewey. From that land one could see the old Clutter home across the Arkansas River which was usually dry.
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posted on
07/18/2014 12:52:05 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: Chasaway
One of the funniest essays ever penned.
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posted on
07/18/2014 12:52:14 PM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
To: laplata
For Hemingway to criticize Faulkner for drinking while he wrote is laughable.I've read plenty of Hemingway's work. There are times that you can tell he is well under the influence while writing.
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posted on
07/18/2014 12:56:41 PM PDT
by
EricT.
(Everything not forbidden is compulsory.)
To: EveningStar
And Stephanie Meyers wasn’t mentioned?
She’s certainly hated...
Oh, wait....they’re talking about writers...and she ain’t one. More like a talentless hack.
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posted on
07/18/2014 12:58:24 PM PDT
by
hoagy62
("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
07/18/2014 12:59:14 PM PDT
by
Skooz
(Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
To: DeFault User
What about Thomas Wolfe? I tried reading You Can’t Go Home Again after I moved to Asheville. It was incredibly boring and I never finished it.
I do love Nelson DeMille, though.
To: laplata
No, Hemingway was an ambulance driver during WWI - for our side. He was injured and hospitalized. He was a correspondent during the Spanish Civil War & WWII.
To: ilovesarah2012
Try Look Homeward Angel, his best book.
To: EveningStar
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posted on
07/18/2014 1:12:56 PM PDT
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: Ignorance on parade.)
To: yarddog
Truman Capote was a really weird little fellow but he sure could write. Capote wrote a few Christmas stories. Most people will never read them. They are my favorite stories by Capote.
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posted on
07/18/2014 1:13:46 PM PDT
by
Daaave
("Well bless my soul what's wrong with me")
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