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The 100 Greatest Writers of All Time
read the final list here
I just briefly skimmed this but my first impression is I can appreciate the kind of approach they took to the list. Homer, Dickens, Stein, and Dostoevsky are reeeeally not my favorite authors ever (of the things I’ve read by them) and they maybe left out some people I like (*taps foot in angst against there being no Sylvia here. Or Frost? Emerson? THOREAU??), but… way to put Mary Shelley above Percy. I mean, duh I guess. I’m okay with Faulkner being 1 too I guess.
Long story short, I rarely agree with these kinds of things very much. Ignore the part where I haven’t read the vast majority of the people on them. errr. And as always, it’d be sweet if there were more ladies chilling on the list.
edit: Change my last sentence, there are some ladies here, but the Brontes are NOT THE SAME PERSON.
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i love that faulkner is #1.
i’m not sure why. but i quite like typewriters.
Nothing like another list illustrating how woefully behind I am in reading. Damn you Choose Your Own Adventure books.
my only complaint was a serious lack
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walkwhilereading: thisrecording:...I prefer to to think of these lists as “no particular...
You definitely can. Kafka over Joyce? No freakin way.
I feel so unrefined. I’ve read so few of the people on this list. That said, Shakespeare is at the top of my (imaginary)...
The 100 Greatest Writers of All Time read the final list here
I just briefly skimmed this but my first impression is I can appreciate the kind of approach they took to the list....