Reply #136: There are so many!

[MissAnnThrope]

Norman Mailer
Gore Vidal

Are two who weren't mentioned. I've read them both, but I find them utterly forgettable in the long run. Great literature is remembered.

Of the ones who were mentioned, here are my feelings:

Anne Rice - As soon as she stopped drinking, she started acting like she was being paid by the word, instead of with fat contracts. How many times does an author have to give the same description in different chapters?

Ayn Rand - Gave misfits with no social skills whatsoever reason to feel superior to all the people who wouldn't talk to them in HS and promoted selfishness as a virtue.

F. Scott Fitzgerald - Who cares about all those new money types anyway?

John Steinbeck - Just really boring and overrated.

Ernest Hemingway - Anyone have time for a four hour diatribe about how I feel about him? Didn't think so.

James Joyce - Incoherent drivel. A writer who should have put DOWN the bottle.

Virginia Woolfe - Flowery drivel for pseudo-feminists who really want to be dominated.

Tom Wolfe - Just wrong.