Absolutely not. I just finished the Fountainhead for the second time and the writing is average at best. Her philosophical views are what made her famous, but not her writing. You obviously just can't pick one, but I really think Hemingway is a true contender for one of the best.
Agreed on both counts
What is your favorite work by Hemmingway? My personal favorite is The Sun Also Rises.
dont have one. Im only mildy familiar with his work. Picked up a copy of his "complete short stories" a couple years back, read several of them and was astonished at how he made the pages come to life. Had never read anyone else who did such a thing in such a manner. I cant remember any particular story, except for one about a rich man who takes his wife on a hunting trip, she tries to bed the guide and ends up shooting her husband by accident.
I tried to read that years ago, but I couldn't get through it. My girlfriend recommended it, said it was one of her favorites. She loved the bullfighting, but I never made it that far; I just remember a few ex-pats in Paris, chatting up who knows what over coffee. A dude who lost his balls in the war, maybe? I don't know, I wanted to like it.
Not a bad synopsis.
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"Mein Kamp" out sales everyone, so Hitler wins
BUKOWSKIX3plain, yet descriptive wording, insightful, passively angry and FUNNY.dude was a BEAST.
Official answer: JoyceActual favorite: Wodehouse
ahhhh. I remember something about chatting over coffee, and also bull fighting. Some veteran bull fighter who gets a chance to do it again and gets messed up by the bull. Archer?
I tried to read Ulysses......gave me a headacheBesides Fyodor Dost and Bukowski, Henry Miller, John Fante, Celine, Knut Hansun, Yukio Mishima, Hubert Selby, Turgenev, Dos Passos ah that's enough.