Your point? Is it not true the original Americans came from England?rennaT wrote:Douglas Adams, while he was alive, was British.Techno wrote:Douglas Adams - the man lives forever <3.
Who is the greatest living American author?
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Not entirely, by any means, to address your somewhat ignorant point. And while Adams lived partially in the US for most of his life, he is now sadly dead, and he died British.Techno wrote:Your point? Is it not true the original Americans came from England?rennaT wrote:Douglas Adams, while he was alive, was British.Techno wrote:Douglas Adams - the man lives forever <3.
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Anything For Billy was my favorite for a very long time.KinGAleX wrote:Larry McMurtry!
Lonesome Doooooove.
Cormac McCarthy
Ernest Hemingway
Ray Bradbury
Im suprised nobody put Harper Lee
EDIT: AND hunter S. Thompson???
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Stop taking everything so seriously. Jeez.flagmyidol wrote: Not entirely, by any means, to address your somewhat ignorant point. And while Adams lived partially in the US for most of his life, he is now sadly dead, and he died British.
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I would have said HST, but he sadly shot himself a few years back. He was sixty-seven years old, or, as he described it, 17 years too old. Rest in peace!
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Ernest Hemingway has been dead for like 50 years. Harper Lee has written one novel, and it was absolutely awful. Ray Bradbury wrote one good novel, which was intended to be an inditement against television that was misinterpretated by everyone as a statement on free thought.handofgod wrote: Ernest Hemingway
Ray Bradbury
Im suprised nobody put Harper Lee
To keep discussion going, Michael Chabon. Kavalier & Clay is an amazing book, though the Yiddish Policeman's Union was a bit heavy on the Jewstigma.
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QFE to everything you said.Studebacher Hoch wrote:Ernest Hemingway has been dead for like 50 years. Harper Lee has written one novel, and it was absolutely awful. Ray Bradbury wrote one good novel, which was intended to be an inditement against television that was misinterpretated by everyone as a statement on free thought.handofgod wrote: Ernest Hemingway
Ray Bradbury
Im suprised nobody put Harper Lee
To keep discussion going, Michael Chabon. Kavalier & Clay is an amazing book, though the Yiddish Policeman's Union was a bit heavy on the Jewstigma.
EDIT: Techno, as I read your post, I sincerely hoped it was a joke. I didn't take it as such, but I'm glad for your sake that it was.
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Does Charlie Kaufman count? He fucking should.
Also, Chuck Klosterman.
Also, Chuck Klosterman.
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Oh, very much so. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs ftw.SlappyMcGee wrote:Also, Chuck Klosterman.
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The Most Overrated Illinois Sucks author? I didn't know "Illinois Sucks" was a country. :PSlappyMcGee wrote:Sniperwhere wrote:I'm surprised that Ray Bradbury has not yet been mentioned.
If the word "greatest" was "most", and if the word "living" was "overrated", and if the word "American" was "Illinois sucks", then yeah, Bradbury ftw.
Anyways, I add Michael Crichton to the list. Andromeda Strain was incredible.
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Michael Crichton died last year.Sniperwhere wrote:Anyways, I add Michael Crichton to the list. Andromeda Strain was incredible.
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This thread is surely becoming a giant tearfest for people who are just not realizing that their favourite authors are dead.
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Cormac McCarthy is good. Just read The Road, my first experience with him (aside from the No Country adaptation) and it was quite brilliant. Not sure about greatest, but I'll certainly be reading more.
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DemonzLunchBreak wrote:The Road was decent. I kinda preferred All the Pretty Horses. Those are the only two books I've read by McCarthy, though.
You folk ought'a check out some Blood Meridian. Way better than anything else ever.
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Oh god, Asimov!rennaT wrote:This thread is surely becoming a giant tearfest for people who are just not realizing that their favourite authors are dead.
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flagmyidol wrote:Oh god, Asimov!rennaT wrote:This thread is surely becoming a giant tearfest for people who are just not realizing that their favourite authors are dead.
Guys, I just heard over the CB. Miguel de Cervantes has been found in Tokyo dead. I guess he hanged him self. It might not be suicide, though. I guess he was in the middle of some autoerotic asphyxiation. Yeah, his little Don Quixote was all tied up too. It's a real shame.
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See, this is why I hate being the most uninformed person in America.xVxSupremeMastarxVx wrote:Michael Crichton died last year.
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Thomas Hardy - oh wait, he's British and dead
Sholom Aleichem - Yiddish and dead
Edmund Rostand - French, a playwright, and dead
Frank Herbert - dead
hmm...how about WILLIAM GIBSON
Sholom Aleichem - Yiddish and dead
Edmund Rostand - French, a playwright, and dead
Frank Herbert - dead
hmm...how about WILLIAM GIBSON
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William Gibson lives in Vancouver.bobaga_fett wrote:Thomas Hardy - oh wait, he's British and dead
Sholom Aleichem - Yiddish and dead
Edmund Rostand - French, a playwright, and dead
Frank Herbert - dead
hmm...how about WILLIAM GIBSON
... don't make me get into this.
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But his writing is so Chicago!Studebacher Hoch wrote:William Gibson lives in Vancouver.bobaga_fett wrote:Thomas Hardy - oh wait, he's British and dead
Sholom Aleichem - Yiddish and dead
Edmund Rostand - French, a playwright, and dead
Frank Herbert - dead
hmm...how about WILLIAM GIBSON
... don't make me get into this.
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Umm, Gibson's writing is Detroit, if anything.
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err. Tanner, William Gibson is a white guy. Noob.
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If my favourite movie of the past decade had been set in America instead of the UK, it would have been filmed in Detroit.
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