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deepthought42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:12 AM Original message |
Contemporary Southern lit? |
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Ava (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
1. crazy in alabama |
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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
2. There's always "To Kill a Mockingbird" |
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ceile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:33 AM Response to Original message |
3. The Paperboy by Pete Dexter |
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Tuesday Afternoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:12 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. good question ...also...need to define the parameters for the word |
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cemaphonic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:33 AM Response to Original message |
4. How about Cormac McCarthy? |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:17 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. I also recommend any of his earlier southern gothic works... |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:34 PM Response to Reply #4 |
15. The only one of his that could be considered southern is... |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:35 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Can't believe nobody has suggested Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina. |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:43 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. I did! I did! |
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Tuesday Afternoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
5. Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil -- John Berendt ~or~ |
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KitchenWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
6. I second "To Kill a Mockingbird" |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:15 PM Response to Original message |
8. Harry Crews "A Feast of Snakes" or "Childhood: Biography of a Place" |
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deepthought42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 04:12 PM Response to Reply #8 |
24. Damn... |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 04:17 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. It is very good |
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deepthought42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 04:25 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Spiffy! |
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southpaw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
10. A Confederacy of Dunces |
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deepthought42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:31 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. OMG! I forgot about that one! |
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southpaw (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:35 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. 'Course you've read it, froody! |
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deepthought42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 04:11 PM Response to Reply #16 |
23. I forgot... |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:26 PM Response to Original message |
11. The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kid is pretty fun. |
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deepthought42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 11:45 AM Response to Reply #11 |
36. Wouldn't you know it... |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 07:54 PM Response to Reply #36 |
41. How about Alice Walker? "The Color Purple" is brilliant. |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-21-08 11:08 AM Response to Reply #11 |
44. wonderful, wonderful book |
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IndianaJones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:26 PM Response to Original message |
12. Robert McCammon, Boys Life or Gone South. nt. |
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deepthought42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
14. Wow...thanks everyone! |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
18. Have 2 authors for you, both writing fiction, but not SF: |
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BrotherBuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 12:41 PM Response to Original message |
19. Carl Hiaasen and the late John D. MacDonald |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
21. John Dufresne's Louisiana Power and Light |
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Rob H. (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
22. "A Fine Dark Line" by Joe Lansdale |
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deepthought42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 04:14 PM Response to Original message |
25. I should've mentioned... |
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MsTryska (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 08:35 PM Response to Original message |
28. How about mergin the two with the Southern Vampire Chronicles |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 09:38 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. I think if the OP brings in Rice books, he will fail the "Literature" part of the assignment... |
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MsTryska (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 10:46 PM Response to Reply #29 |
33. yeah i tend to agree.... |
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deepthought42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 11:48 AM Response to Reply #33 |
37. Damnit... |
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MsTryska (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 04:57 PM Response to Reply #37 |
40. So if you want to read Divine Secrets that would be perfect |
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deepthought42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 11:42 AM Response to Reply #29 |
34. Yeah, he said he wasn't |
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mnhtnbb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 09:43 PM Response to Original message |
30. Lee Smith's The Last Girls |
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volstork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 09:57 PM Response to Original message |
31. Ann Patchett "Bel Canto" or |
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haele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 10:38 PM Response to Original message |
32. Like "Sci-Fi" - try Sharon McCrumb - "Bimbos of the Death Sun"... |
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deepthought42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 11:43 AM Response to Reply #32 |
35. I may have to check that one out |
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RetroLounge (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
38. Define Contemporary... |
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deepthought42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-20-08 12:07 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. I'll agree on that one |
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deepthought42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-21-08 07:14 AM Response to Original message |
42. You're all making this very difficult... |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-21-08 11:07 AM Response to Original message |
43. ooh, Barbara Kingsolver... |
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