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It seems as if Dostoevsky has become the Ayn Rand of the current era... the cult figure for teens and twenty-somethings.:D

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Originally Posted by stlukesguild

It seems as if Dostoevsky has become the Ayn Rand of the current era... the cult figure for teens and twenty-somethings.:D

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Indeed! :D

There is a serious lack of Modern writers in here!

William Butler Yeats
John Millington Synge
Elizabeth Gaskell
Eoin Colfer (because i think he is a great kids writer!!!)
Douglas Adams

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Originally Posted by stlukesguild

It seems as if Dostoevsky has become the Ayn Rand of the current era... the cult figure for teens and twenty-somethings.:D

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Having grown up in the Ayn Rand ( :sick: ) era, I never thought I would live to see the day ( :thumbs_up )


While I do love these list threads , this one has gotten a bit vague and sloppy, as the OP didn't really make it clear. Half are posting their current "flavor of the day" favorite authors, and some are posting who in there humble (or not so humble ;) ) opinions are the top five authors....

Ohwell, I'll play too..

Who I think? feel? TODAY are the 5 BEST Authors, not necessarily my FAVORITE :D :

Above Category: Shakespeare
2. Dostoevsky
3. Beckett
4. Kafka
5. Elliot

You see, Dante is not in there, as I have not read him YET, Cervantes is not in there I have'nt read Don Quixote in 30 yrs (and have little memory of it)
and he probably should be....


TOMORROW:
1 Shakespeare
2. Dostoevsky
3. Beckett
4. ?
5. ?

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Originally Posted by stlukesguild

It seems as if Dostoevsky has become the Ayn Rand of the current era... the cult figure for teens and twenty-somethings.:D

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Well then we're making progress, it seems, since those two are incomparable.

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Originally Posted by stlukesguild

It seems as if Dostoevsky has become the Ayn Rand of the current era... the cult figure for teens and twenty-somethings.:D

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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 dorm room bookshelves (who knows how many have actually read it--often times the book is only within a few feet of an Obama poster), while only a few read Dostoevsky. Still, if what you say is the case, Dostoevskian fanboyism is undeniably an improvement over the Ayn Rand cult.

#1 (Bazarov won't need me to fill this one in.)

#2 Aesop

#3 Jonathan Swift

#4 Ben Elton

#5 Tom Sharpe

No order.

Hemingway
Steinbeck
Orwell
Fitzgerald
Dostoyevsky

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Originally Posted by stlukesguild

It seems as if Dostoevsky has become the Ayn Rand of the current era... the cult figure for teens and twenty-somethings.:D

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I agree with that, luke...I often wonder though if they're actually reading them given the length factor. What Rand had going for her is the number of small books that summarize her big ones. :D

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Originally Posted by The Atheist

#1 (Bazarov won't need me to fill this one in.)

#2 Aesop

#3 Jonathan Swift

#4 Ben Elton

#5 Tom Sharpe

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Ben Elton? Tom Sharpe? You are joking, yes? Ben Elton above Shakespeare?

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Originally Posted by Neely

Ben Elton? Tom Sharpe? You are joking, yes? Ben Elton above Shakespeare?

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No, I am certainly not joking.

Shakespeare is overrated.

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Originally Posted by limajean

Shakespeare is overrated.

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:eek:

Take it back!

No way. Half the people I talk to about Shakespeare these days don't even know why they like him. They only do because they're expected to.

Shakespeare is overrated.

Yeah... an Mozart sucks too.:rolleyes:

Give me a break.