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  1. a lost weekend

    James Joyce

    What? No no no - the style IS the book. The morality of the book is in the style. The style is the best thing about the book.
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    Flannery O'Connor

    Flannery O'Connor is one of the few short fiction giants of the century. A supreme story-teller, original, unique, dark, sinister, often hilarious. Her collected essays are a good read. There's one, I believe, called "On Writing" or "Writing Short Stories" or something like that. Read it.
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    Graham Greene

    I'd strongly recommend The End of the Affair-- the only book of his i've truly (i.e. complaint-free) enjoyed.
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    Great/Good Adaptations

    Wonder Boys. Best adaptation I've ever seen.
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    Juno

    Poorly. Generally a pseudo-Wes Anderson approach to filming, a very boring, contrived script (which nevertheless managed to pull home an Oscar [how??]) and overrated acting.
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    Writer achivements

    The first thing that comes to mind would have to be Dostoevsky. He spent ten years in labor camp in Siberia during which he was lined up to get shot only to find out at the last minute that it was sick joke. And then he wrote The Brothers Karamazov, a masterpiece without a trace of the...
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    Ian McEwan: Saturday

    Really? Ulysses... I would've said Mrs. Dalloway...
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    John Banville: The Book Of Evidence

    There may not be 1, but (& I do not say this lightly, mind you [revering as I am of the three writers mentioned]) I am suggesting that Banville's characters are more human/humane than Camus' and Beckett's and - maybe, even - Nabokov's (with the exception of Humbert Humbert). & by human I do...
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    Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club

    BUT! - one hastens to say - Nietzsche should not be confused as someone who advocated fascism or national socialism. That he was crazy is well known as his mental health deteriorated toward the end of his life, but that does not make the realm of his philosophy dismissable.
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    Benjamin Black

    It is my sworn duty to implore you to read a Banville novel (w/ a dictionary within reach, probably). The Book of Evidence or The Sea are good places to begin.
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    Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club

    The success and popularity of Mr. Palahniuk is something I do not understand. imo he is a thrill-seeking shock-writer, i.e. he writes - simply, exclusively - to shock. Fight Club is a vastly overrated novel (this applies, unsurpisingly, to the film also) and the same can be said of the rest of...
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    John Banville: The Book Of Evidence

    Oh, I must be in heaven. Yes, Banville Banville Banville. He is such a marvellous (inspiring, unique, amazing) writer that I - sometimes, oh sometimes - don't know what to do w/ him. I am angered by the reviewers amd readers and critics who slur out adjectives such as 'overwrought', 'florid'...
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    Benjamin Black

    Since I am a (self-professed, now) Banville-addict, I recently copped the crime novel Christine Falls written by Banville in his nom de plume Benjamin Black. Apparently the style is alarmingly anti-Banville (who writes slow-paced, lyrical, meditative prose), but I have yet to read it. Anyone...
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    your favorite booze?

    Gin. Tanqueray or Bombay Saphire. Maybe Beef Eater. Throw in some vermouth and a lemon twist...
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    Best Of The Booker - 40th Anniversary

    Damn; there goes my hope of Banville's The Sea (by some miracle) making the cut. Oh well: not an entirely bad list. I hope Rushdie or Coetzee take the title.
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    Philip Roth fans

    Twenty-ninth! And I hear there's a 30 on the way (perhaps he will title it Roth 30). To think that the reputation of certain great writers rests solely on a single or couple of books that, by the way, were not easily published (i.e. Joyce, Proust, Flaubert).
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    Anton Chekhov

    Forgive me, but I somehow fail to see in what way dear ol' Anton is "THE pioneer of stream of consciousness writing". To my knowledge that title(?) belongs to the French writer Édouard Dujardin, from whom the great stream-of-consciousness-ologist James Joyce adapted (i.e. learned, was inspired...
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    Philip Roth fans

    I have (somewhat) mixed feelings towards Mr. Roth, due - mostly - to the enormous (i.e. overwhelming) number of books the man has written (and continues to write; a new novel is already slated for a September publication date). This complaint, you might argue, is something of a quibble, however...
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