Writer Vote-Off!!!

I'm curious - being new and all - what the board thinks of some of my favorite writers. I thought it would be fun to have a tournament style vote-off. I broke down my favorite 20th century writers into a few groups. Choose ONE writer out of each group. Enjoy:

GROUP A:
Hunter S. Thompson
Truman Capote
Tom Wolfe

GROUP B:
Jack Kerouac
William Burroughs
Norman Mailer

GROUP C:
Charles Bukowski
Earnest Hemingway
William Faulkner

GROUP D:
Anthony Burgess
Jerzy Kosinski
Ken Kesey

I think that's good for now. Go for it!!!

Faulkner and Wolfe and you can keep the other categories, though I would have chosen Hemingway had he been in any other category but Faulkner's.

A - Thompson
B - Kerouac
C - Pass
D - Kesey

Thompson
Mailer
Faulkner (on the strength of 'As i lay dying')
Burgess

Thompson
Kerouac
Hemingway
Burgess

Group C, but please dump Bukowski. I only chose that one on the strength of William Faulkner, and hemingway has his good works.

Thompson
Burroughs
Bukowski
Kosinski

Truman Capote/Tom Wolfe

Jack Kerouac

Earnest Hemingway/William Faulkner

Pass D

I'm not terribly au fait with the writers but I'm going with...

A- Tom Wolfe (Well, Bonfire of The Vanities is quite funny)
B- Jack Kerouac (I probably ought to read On The Road- shouldn't he go in Thompson's group?)
C- William Faulkner (I'm trying to read As I Lay Dying)
D- Anthony Burgess (because I think the eye-make-up is cool)

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Virgil

Group C, but please dump Bukowski. I only chose that one on the strength of William Faulkner, and hemingway has his good works.

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I can't and I wont.

A Thompson
B Kerouac
C Bukowski
D Kesey