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This is just your opinion stated as if it were a fact. You can argue that drugs kill creative people, but it's totally preposterous to say that it always makes artists worse like it's a fact. Hendrix...

Didn't know he had cancer. Anyway, his novels were a mixed bag at best, sometimes excellent (most of Rabbit) sometimes comically bad (The Coup), but at least until the mid-70s he was one of the most...

I don't know how pervasive the Ayn Rand love used to be, but I'm a freshman in college and it seems everyone I know has two unfortunate copies of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead sitting in their...

I think there's a difference between actions or objects having implications and them being actual symbols...

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Awesome.

"Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his...

I prefer the Lydia Davis translation to the updated Moncrief, but of course there is only one volume of Davis, while there's a whole set of updated Moncrief, which is the next best, so go for that.
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I am very bad at this. When I read it must be either relatively silent (nowhere these days) or the sounds must be drowned out with music that is both thick enough to do so but also droning and...

10-12 for me unless there's some tragedy (less) or I'm on vacation (more).

Don DeLillo. Right off the bat the dialog is especially ridiculous. Would a middle class housewife say this?:
"What are the people like? Do the women wear plaid skirts, cable-knit sweaters? Are the...

Anyway, they aren't my least favorite books, but I thought Blood Meridian, White Noise and Independence Day were all bad. If these are among the best the America of the last 25 years has to offer I...

1. Charles Dickens
2. Marcel Proust
3. Henry James
4. John Steinbeck
5. Thomas Hardy

This is order of enjoyment, not in order of who I think is "best".

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/02/0081387

Sorry if I thought your indictment of the spittle-lipped sheep who happen to sometimes like established old works was a self-congratulatory punk rock position, beret.
I don't care what your or...

I think Cannery Row was hilarious but really I have to say Grapes of Wrath is his best novel, and probably my favorite American novel outside of Henry James.

Germane piece in this month's Atlantic about the possible dying out of The New York Times print edition.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901/new-york-times

I thought the Savage Detectives was horrible. Meandering pseudo-Beat crap.

I only force myself to finish a book if it's really important, like Don Quixote. Anything else, even if it's somehow won a Pulitzer despite being crapola, like Richard Ford's Independence Day, can in...

I think you would agree it's a little more complicated than that. I've always thought of him as a highly moral writer who juggles the engagement of the humor with tragic themes in such a way that by...

I think I agree with you, but would you agree that literature that creates an ideal role based on one author's particular feminist assumptions has at the very least the potential to be just as...

True but (and I may be wrong) I don't think he was suggesting that they should have unequal treatment or that they are unequal beings; rather, that there are indisputable scientific differences...

Come on, you're smarter than that.

Also not all feminists hold that desiring a man as a life partner or hero figure is necessarily a weakness or bad thing. They should be free to go after whatever man they feel would fulfill their...

How anti! Personally I'd sooner say Kerouac sucks. That's just me though.

I don't mean to insult you, but [savage insult].

Jude the Obscure. Good god.