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Re: Greatest Writer of All Time?
« Reply #75 on: November 25, 2013, 05:23:03 PM »
Fuckin A.  The printed version of heavy deads on squat day.  Guess I'll take another run at it one of these days.

I admit, I tried Ulysses and couldn't get through it either.
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Re: Greatest Writer of All Time?
« Reply #76 on: November 25, 2013, 11:18:48 PM »
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.  

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Re: Greatest Writer of All Time?
« Reply #77 on: November 25, 2013, 11:41:26 PM »
What would you choose:
-Dairy of Anne Frank or Mein Kampf

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Re: Greatest Writer of All Time?
« Reply #78 on: November 25, 2013, 11:44:07 PM »
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Re: Greatest Writer of All Time?
« Reply #79 on: November 26, 2013, 03:51:10 AM »
I was a fan of Rand when I was younger.

Past few years I have enjoyed Michener.

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Re: Greatest Writer of All Time?
« Reply #80 on: November 26, 2013, 04:26:43 AM »
jesus, he wrote the bible

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Re: Greatest Writer of All Time?
« Reply #81 on: November 26, 2013, 05:23:25 AM »
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Re: Greatest Writer of All Time?
« Reply #82 on: November 26, 2013, 06:11:06 AM »
george orwell,aldous huxely,steinbeck  you would have to mention h.g wells in there to.

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Re: Greatest Writer of All Time?
« Reply #83 on: November 26, 2013, 06:41:48 AM »
Whoa, Wez, first time I heard that name on here. One of my college professors wrote his biography, Full of Life. Ask the Dust was great, he wanted us all to read it. Fante was a big inspiration for Bukowski, and later Thom Jones, a brilliant short story writer. He read at our school. Good call, man.

Thanks...all of Fante's stuff is great.

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Re: Greatest Writer of All Time?
« Reply #84 on: November 26, 2013, 07:07:04 AM »
jesus, he wrote the bible

That's the funny part, none of it was written during Jesus' life.  it was story recollected years and years later.  You know how accurate those turn out to be right?

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Re: Greatest Writer of All Time?
« Reply #85 on: November 26, 2013, 07:11:53 AM »
Louis Lamour,Bernard Cornwell,Vince Flynn,Ben Ritches,Simon Scarrow...my list goes a bit.

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Re: Greatest Writer of All Time?
« Reply #86 on: November 26, 2013, 07:19:16 AM »
Archibald Jamison O'Rourke
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Re: Greatest Writer of All Time?
« Reply #87 on: November 26, 2013, 08:00:23 AM »
Amazing who else wrote about beer shits?



Bukowski made taking a nasty, massive beer shit, sound as if he had achieved  nirvana.

  

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Re: Greatest Writer of All Time?
« Reply #88 on: November 26, 2013, 08:51:53 AM »
I like me some Vonnegut, too.
slaughter house 5, also pearl s buck "the good earth" is worth a read.
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