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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 11:46 PM Original message |
Poll question: Best American literary novel |
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Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 11:48 PM Response to Original message |
1. "Grapes of Wrath" |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 11:48 PM Response to Original message |
2. Moby Dick. |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 11:52 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Geeze, forgot Melville! On Tolkein-- Doh! I knew that. Glad I bumped him. |
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VOX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 01:39 AM Response to Reply #2 |
43. Gotta go with the White Whale, too. |
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Jack The Tab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 11:49 PM Response to Original message |
3. Hemingway all the way.... |
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Wickerman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 11:49 PM Response to Original message |
4. slaughterhouse 5 |
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curse10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 10:14 AM Response to Reply #4 |
52. agreed, Slaughterhouse Five |
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HawkerHurricane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 11:54 PM Response to Original message |
6. Tom Sawyer |
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BlackVelvetElvis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 11:31 AM Response to Reply #6 |
64. Not a novel but... |
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GURUving (707 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 11:55 PM Response to Original message |
7. I voted for Tropic of Cancer |
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roughsatori (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:30 AM Response to Reply #7 |
28. That book moved me like injecting Meth |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:39 AM Response to Reply #28 |
35. Yeah, did that to me, too |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 11:55 PM Response to Original message |
8. Hawthorne |
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Jandar (66 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 11:57 PM Response to Original message |
9. Umm... Catch 22, anyone? N/T |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:07 AM Response to Reply #9 |
14. Great book, but same category as 1984. |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 11:58 PM Response to Original message |
10. Where is Faulkner? |
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markses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:06 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Good goddamn question: Absalom Absalom |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:12 AM Response to Reply #10 |
21. Answered that in the original post |
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SOteric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:21 AM Response to Reply #21 |
25. Well, I have my tastes too. I love Faulkner's writing |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:32 AM Response to Reply #25 |
29. Ah, there are Hemmingway people and there are Faulkner people |
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dofus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:04 AM Response to Original message |
11. The Great Gadsby was written by |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:09 AM Response to Reply #11 |
18. OMG! Don't know where that came from! |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:13 AM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Edmond Fitzgerald |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:37 AM Response to Reply #22 |
33. Hey, at least I didn't say Ella Fitzgerald! |
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Jim Sagle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
12. "The Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison. |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:14 AM Response to Reply #12 |
23. That was number ten, and it got bumped for "other." |
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markses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:08 AM Response to Original message |
15. Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow |
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MrBenchley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 10:32 AM Response to Reply #15 |
56. I'd vote for that, too |
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JanMichael (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:09 AM Response to Original message |
16. "To Kill a Mockingbird" is the ULTIMATE "one hit wonder". |
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Tom Yossarian Joad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:09 AM Response to Original message |
17. Huckleberry Finn... Sooo many levels and banned in many schoolhouses |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:21 AM Response to Reply #17 |
26. Man, that's a whole world of debate |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 10:35 AM Response to Reply #17 |
57. American? Literary? Novel? I'd say Huckleberry Finn |
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Jeff in Cincinnati (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 10:50 AM Response to Reply #57 |
60. Hemingway on "Huckleberry Finn" |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 10:53 AM Response to Reply #60 |
62. I remember that quote...thanks for reminding me, ritc! |
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BlackVelvetElvis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 11:33 AM Response to Reply #17 |
65. Huck |
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mac56 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 03:41 PM Response to Reply #17 |
78. Second on Huckleberry Finn. |
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Zero Gravitas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:10 AM Response to Original message |
19. Tolkein was English |
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The Bish (28 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 10:49 AM Response to Reply #19 |
59. So was Orwell |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:10 AM Response to Original message |
20. Gatsby |
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kodi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 01:39 AM Response to Reply #20 |
42. best of the best. |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 09:58 AM Response to Reply #42 |
48. Yeah, to me it's the best written |
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kodi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 03:32 PM Response to Reply #48 |
75. fitzgerald is like that and was a brilliant at using just the right words |
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screembloodymurder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:21 AM Response to Original message |
24. No contest |
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roughsatori (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
27. LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) The System of Dante's Inferno |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:33 AM Response to Reply #27 |
31. Thanks for the recommendation. I'll look it up. |
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roughsatori (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:48 AM Response to Reply #31 |
39. It is sort of an odd book. But it reminds me of Pound's Cantos |
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roughsatori (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:32 AM Response to Original message |
30. Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby |
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ThorsteinVeblen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:33 AM Response to Original message |
32. Twain and Ellison and Faulkner and Vonnegut and Bukowski and Kesey |
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Interrobang (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:39 AM Response to Original message |
34. You all are going to hate me for saying this, but... |
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Kenneth ken (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:44 AM Response to Reply #34 |
36. I won't hate you |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:46 AM Response to Reply #34 |
38. Really? |
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maggrwaggr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:45 AM Response to Original message |
37. "Rabbit Run" by Updike |
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ironflange (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 03:16 PM Response to Reply #37 |
72. I love Updike |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 12:50 AM Response to Original message |
40. Poor Richard Wright. I would have thought him a DU kind of writer |
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Cat Atomic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 01:27 AM Response to Original message |
41. Do you suppose Interview with the Vampire will ever join those ranks? |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 10:01 AM Response to Reply #41 |
50. Do you think it's that good? |
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Cat Atomic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 10:25 AM Response to Reply #50 |
54. Mmm- hard to say. Rice's writing style bugs the living shit out of me, |
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onebigbadwulf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 01:41 AM Response to Original message |
44. Wells' Animal Farm |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 09:59 AM Response to Reply #44 |
49. Orwell's British. |
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Punkingal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 03:56 AM Response to Original message |
45. An American Tragedy... |
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Feanorcurufinwe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 04:26 AM Response to Original message |
46. Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon |
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tishaLA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 04:44 AM Response to Original message |
47. Moby-Dick; or the Whale |
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felonious thunk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 10:13 AM Response to Original message |
51. On The Road - Jack Kerouac |
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BritishHuman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 10:19 AM Response to Original message |
53. "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 11:36 AM Response to Reply #53 |
66. But it's not a novel.... |
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BritishHuman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 03:12 PM Response to Reply #66 |
70. I haven't seen the film... |
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joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 10:30 AM Response to Original message |
55. All good books, but Gatsby is the greatest of all--not even close |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 02:58 PM Response to Reply #55 |
68. Well |
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Guaranteed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 03:06 PM Response to Reply #68 |
69. Nuh uh. |
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joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 03:15 PM Response to Reply #69 |
71. Irish writer--this is for American ones |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 03:19 PM Response to Reply #69 |
74. No way! |
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( posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 06:15 PM Response to Reply #74 |
81. advice for reading Ulysses |
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( posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 10:46 AM Response to Original message |
58. time periods |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 03:16 PM Response to Reply #58 |
73. Good questions |
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regularguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
61. Phillip Roth: Zuckerman Trilogy |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 10:54 AM Response to Original message |
63. "All the King's Men" |
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Red_Storm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 11:36 AM Response to Reply #63 |
67. In Dubious Battle - John Steinbeck |
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Cottonball (36 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
76. Whats wrong with.. |
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( posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 03:40 PM Response to Reply #76 |
77. this |
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mndemocrat_29 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 05:52 PM Response to Original message |
79. The House of Mirth |
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Emboldened Chimp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 06:05 PM Response to Original message |
80. Dos Passos' USA Trilogy |
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politicat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-07-03 06:40 PM Response to Original message |
82. Other... A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
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83. In Dubious Battle |
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