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Could also equally be said...If a book has that ability to so strongly affect with such sway, it bodes that it is a testament to how powerful a book it really is. There is no denying its power and greatness. I said that at the outset or rather I said "brilliant and important." Take the Bible as another example of a book which has power and greatness(Though not to me!), yet is poorly written. Odd, I thought it to be my greatest work and finest hour?  
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Ayn Rand. All of the books she published during her lifetime are still in print.
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Ayn Rand. All of the books she published during her lifetime are still in print. Ayn Rand was Russian.... |
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Ayn Rand. All of the books she published during her lifetime are still in print. Ayn Rand was Russian.... In fact, the genesis of her philosophy, Objectivism, came from living through the Bolshevik Revolution. |
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Ayn Rand. All of the books she published during her lifetime are still in print. Ayn Rand was Russian.... In fact, the genesis of her philosophy, Objectivism, came from living through the Bolshevik Revolution. Ayn Rand immigrated to the United States after graduating from university. Rand had always found capitalism and the individualism of the United States a welcome alternative to the corrupt and negative socialism of Russia. |
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Wed 07/15/09 01:59 PM
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Ayn Rand. All of the books she published during her lifetime are still in print. Ayn Rand was Russian.... In fact, the genesis of her philosophy, Objectivism, came from living through the Bolshevik Revolution. Ayn Rand immigrated to the United States after graduating from university. Rand had always found capitalism and the individualism of the United States a welcome alternative to the corrupt and negative socialism of Russia. I know all of that. However, the fact remains she was born and raised in Russia. Her sensiblities and motivation to write came from her young life. I'm a HUGE fan of Ayn Rand, but she cannot be considered an American writer. |
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I do love Ann Rice...
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I do love Ann Rice... Exit to Eden........
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And I love Poetry-
Walt Whitman Robert Frost Sylvia Plath John Keats e e cummings |
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J.D. Salinger.
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Mark Twain. And tied for second place, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allen Poe.
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Mark Twain. And tied for second place, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allen Poe. I believe you are the first to mention Poe. Good one! |
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I think Poe was mentioned earlier. Funny, he's now considered to be a classic and one of the best but during his time he was considered a hack. People enjoyed his writing but he wasn't considered "good." He was the Stephen King of his era
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I think Poe was mentioned earlier. Funny, he's now considered to be a classic and one of the best but during his time he was considered a hack. People enjoyed his writing but he wasn't considered "good." He was the Stephen King of his era Except he didn't write 400 pages of filler in his novels (see The Stand). |
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Ok, I'll give you that. That being said, The Stand is one of my favorite Stephen King books. But it is a little wordy.
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Ok, I'll give you that. That being said, The Stand is one of my favorite Stephen King books. But it is a little wordy. The first 200 and last 200 pages are superb. It's the middle 400 that I skimmed when I reread The Stand. I actually loved his first few books right up through The Stand. Salem's Lot may be my favorite horror novel ever. He became commercialized and needed to "feed the machine." Cujo marked the beginning of the downhill slide to me. I cannot read King any more, and have not been able to do so in decades. |
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Poe rocks. But I CAN see how he would have been considered the King of his time. Kinda like Twain was the Stephen Colbert of his time.
As for King? He's OK... with horror anyway. I LOVE Koontz, though, so... I DO adore King's Dark Towers series. If you haven't read them, do. They're AMAZING! |
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Ok, I'll give you that. That being said, The Stand is one of my favorite Stephen King books. But it is a little wordy. Love this Book!!! The movie did not do it justice! |
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I like Ann Rice too,
and like King, and Sue Grafton, even Jean Auel, they get real wordy. Grafton has improved her style over the years. |
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ever, in your opinion? I'm not asking for your favorite, although I understand that will somewhat bias your opinion. I believe it is Mark Twain. Wait, I didn't read the TP, just the subject. YOU, my friend, have just entered best friend status instantly! 
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