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Kate S
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Definition: 'Classic' must be from 1959 or before (50+ years ago).
My submissions:
James Fenimore Cooper
Ayn Rand
Wilkie Collins
Who are your picks, and why? I would post reasons for the above, but people know why I dislike Fenimore Cooper and Rand (search my answers if you don't), so I won't bore with that screed. Wilkie Collins was a hack author who got lucky, like so many authors nowadays, but who was touted as a genius for utterly average prose. Wordsworth, whom I also quite dislike, almost made it on here, but I do recognize that he was a good writer--he just didn't know when to _stop_.
Reasons are good. Boring picks without reasons or 'Stephenie Meyer lol' are bad.
Heh. To tell the truth, the cavalcade of Twilight answers to 'What book changed your life?' and 'What book would you recommend to President Obama?' brought this question on... because I mean, really, what the heck? But I haven't read it, so can't judge its merits sight unseen. Who knows? It could be a heartbreaking work of staggering genius!
My submissions:
James Fenimore Cooper
Ayn Rand
Wilkie Collins
Who are your picks, and why? I would post reasons for the above, but people know why I dislike Fenimore Cooper and Rand (search my answers if you don't), so I won't bore with that screed. Wilkie Collins was a hack author who got lucky, like so many authors nowadays, but who was touted as a genius for utterly average prose. Wordsworth, whom I also quite dislike, almost made it on here, but I do recognize that he was a good writer--he just didn't know when to _stop_.
Reasons are good. Boring picks without reasons or 'Stephenie Meyer lol' are bad.
Heh. To tell the truth, the cavalcade of Twilight answers to 'What book changed your life?' and 'What book would you recommend to President Obama?' brought this question on... because I mean, really, what the heck? But I haven't read it, so can't judge its merits sight unseen. Who knows? It could be a heartbreaking work of staggering genius!