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Arkham House (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 09:41 AM Original message |
Name a forgotten writer you think should be revived... |
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Inchworm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 09:52 AM Response to Original message |
1. Jimi Hendrix |
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Bennyboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 10:28 AM Response to Original message |
2. Richard Brautigan.... |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 10:31 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. YES! |
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darkstar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 11:23 PM Response to Reply #3 |
31. I agree. I've read a lot, |
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Westegg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 06:56 PM Response to Reply #2 |
14. My late mom turned me on to Brautigan... |
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Bennyboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 11:20 PM Response to Reply #14 |
29. My favorite passage is from Trout Fishing... |
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Westegg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-14-08 05:59 PM Response to Reply #29 |
81. That's a great one... |
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darkstar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 11:21 PM Response to Reply #2 |
30. man do we have a lot in common. |
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BrotherBuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 01:56 AM Response to Reply #2 |
42. Trout Fishing In America is everything about trout fishing |
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skygazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 10:41 AM Response to Original message |
4. There's this guy.... what's his name? |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 10:43 AM Response to Original message |
5. Nikolia Gogol. |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 12:19 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. I certainly agree with Gogol |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 12:49 AM Response to Reply #5 |
38. Have you seen "The Namesake"? |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 04:39 PM Response to Reply #38 |
72. I read the book, and yes, that is when I finally went and picked some out. |
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mulsh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 10:47 AM Response to Original message |
6. Ring Lardner- How To Write Short Stories |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
8. Erskine Caldwell, Richard Yates, Charles Willeford, John Rechey (even though... |
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IndianaJones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 12:22 PM Response to Original message |
9. Jack Chalker. nt. |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
10. William Saroyan |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 12:27 PM Response to Original message |
11. Upton Sinclair |
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momophile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 05:24 PM Response to Original message |
12. my favorite poet - Mason Williams |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
13. Denise Giardina |
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xmas74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 12:27 AM Response to Reply #13 |
35. Check out what someone left |
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LisaM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 06:57 PM Response to Original message |
15. Colette. |
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Guava Jelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 07:05 PM Response to Original message |
16. The DUer ...Writer |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 07:07 PM Response to Original message |
17. Philip K. Dick |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 12:52 AM Response to Reply #17 |
39. He never goes out of style. |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 03:00 PM Response to Reply #17 |
68. There's no way PKD is forgotten...Hollywood loves him. |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 03:13 PM Response to Reply #68 |
69. literally billions in profits have been generated on basis of his works |
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Westegg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 07:16 PM Response to Original message |
18. Is Lovecraft "forgotten"?... |
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Lautremont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 08:36 PM Response to Reply #18 |
27. I'd say decidedly not! |
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Westegg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-14-08 06:02 PM Response to Reply #27 |
82. He's certainly in my brain forever and ever.... |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 12:52 AM Response to Reply #18 |
40. The Color Out of Space! |
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FloridaJudy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 02:51 AM Response to Reply #40 |
46. Omigod! I've got that bumpersticker on my car! |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 10:44 PM Response to Reply #18 |
76. Guillermo del Toro is the director |
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JeffR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
19. John Marquand |
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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
20. Edward Abbey |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 11:47 PM Response to Reply #20 |
32. Mind reader. |
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wain (803 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 08:15 PM Response to Original message |
21. Flannery O'Connor |
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xmas74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 12:29 AM Response to Reply #21 |
36. Not forgotten here! |
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wain (803 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 02:58 PM Response to Reply #36 |
67. I did a term paper on Flannery in college |
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xmas74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 08:49 PM Response to Reply #67 |
75. I've always loved Flannery, |
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Callalily (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
22. Zora Neale Hurston |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 08:28 PM Response to Original message |
23. John Cheever, the quintessential "New Yorker" short story writer. |
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Chovexani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 08:29 PM Response to Original message |
24. I love Fritz Leiber! |
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Arkham House (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 09:51 AM Response to Reply #24 |
50. Ever read "You're All Alone"? |
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Chovexani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 01:12 PM Response to Reply #50 |
55. Oooh, no |
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Beausoleil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 11:54 AM Response to Reply #24 |
53. As do I! |
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Donk Yore (632 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 08:31 PM Response to Original message |
25. Kurt Vonnegut n/t |
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Lautremont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 08:36 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Forgotten? |
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triguy46 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 08:35 PM Response to Original message |
26. Ambrose Bierce... |
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Flaxbee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 11:49 PM Response to Reply #26 |
33. The Devil's Dictionary is one of my favorite 'references' |
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Flaxbee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 11:51 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. Barbara Pym |
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xmas74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 12:35 AM Response to Reply #33 |
37. I regularly refer to my copy. |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 12:58 AM Response to Original message |
41. Lin Yutang. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 02:02 AM Response to Original message |
43. Must be cautious here, but Arthur Upfield |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 01:37 PM Response to Reply #43 |
58. that sounds interesting, Lydia |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 02:07 AM Response to Original message |
44. For the kiddies, George F. MacDonald, author of |
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RainDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 03:13 PM Response to Reply #44 |
70. He also wrote In Back of the North Wind |
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qwertyMike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 02:20 AM Response to Original message |
45. Jane Austen |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 02:08 PM Response to Reply #45 |
61. Jane Austen is hardly forgotten |
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enigmatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 03:03 AM Response to Original message |
47. Sherwood Anderson |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 12:19 PM Response to Reply #47 |
54. Absolutely....Anderson was the pioneer of the 20th century American short story |
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enigmatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-14-08 02:54 AM Response to Reply #54 |
77. "Tandy" is just about perfect |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 03:18 AM Response to Original message |
48. Robert E. Howard. |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 03:39 AM Response to Original message |
49. Stanislaw Lem. He was an AMAZING writer who never got enough credit. |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 01:38 PM Response to Reply #49 |
59. my son has loved reading his short stories |
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Wcross (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
51. Ernest Gann |
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npincus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
52. Tom Robbins |
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cloudbase (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
56. A. J. Liebling |
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xmas74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 01:34 PM Response to Original message |
57. I have bookmarked this thread. |
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Perry Logan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
60. Peter de Vries - a wonderful comic novelist |
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terrya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
62. Theodore Dreiser |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-14-08 04:09 AM Response to Reply #62 |
79. Ah yes. I read Sister Carrie in high school. |
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kentauros (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
63. A.E. van Vogt |
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Arkham House (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 05:58 PM Response to Reply #63 |
74. Hear, hear! |
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geardaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
64. Philip Jose Farmer |
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joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
65. Edna Ferber...her writing style is very dated, but still she does bring |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 02:38 PM Response to Original message |
66. I think al;l of them have decomposed too much to revive |
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last_texas_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
71. John Knowles |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-13-08 04:45 PM Response to Original message |
73. Mervyn Peake |
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Tuesday Afternoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-14-08 03:25 AM Response to Original message |
78. Mazo de la Roche |
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Swede (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-14-08 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
80. Stephen King books are impossible to find. |
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mwb970 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-14-08 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
83. Robert Benchley, James Thurber, H. Allen Smith. |
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Tektonik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-14-08 06:36 PM Response to Original message |
84. Louis-Ferdinand Céline |
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