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*wonders if mac is an english teacher*

/* Tosses his gloves forcefully on the floor */

FOR SHAME, MAC! I insist you take back the insult against Mr. Melville, who is not here to defend himself, and is a favorite author of mine!


AND PASS THE CINNAMON BUNS!

I still think Faulkner is perfectly unreadable, but in the non-fiction category I would like to nominate John Locke. I'm sticking to English speakers, or else I'd nominate Martin Heidegger.

/* at the mention of Locke */

Morning all from sunny Adelaide (South Australia). The birds are noisy... and the beer promises to be wet

and in wet, windy Northern Ireland it is nearly the one of the o'clock in the morning and I still havn't got the hang of this more complicated than the run of the mill message board!

*looks up from the trance induced by mentioning Locke and Heidegger in the same paragraph*

Eh? A newcomer? Aye, concordeisspam, a message board this really isn't. Think of it as a really slow but somehow lively conversation. At least, it was lively before we got to talking about bad writers.

New to H2G2, are you? Well, you're welcome here. Have a look at the main atelier page to get a feel for this virtual place you've walked into (unless you came up on the lift). If you're indeed new, click on the LIL'S ATELIER link at the top of this message page.

and watch out for the backlog! it's a killer!

I rather enjoyed one of Falkner's works. I can't remember the name of it. It was about the family with the retard, and he kept reliving the past. I can't remember the name. But it was an interesting read.

Something entirely unenjoyable to read and get you in a rut on a rainy monday afternoon: Bartleby the Scrivener.

The banquet is ready! Feel free to continue the literary discussion, but please come through here, past the kitchen, to the banquet hall! http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F38024?thread=150292&post=1460642#p1460642

Sorry, d'E. Melville could see a great story, in fact he saw what should have been the greatest story ever written. But he just couldn't tell those wonderful stories to me.

And sea how can you suggest that I teach English after reading my stuff. Show your MC character sheet to your English teacher, a competent teacher will give it back to you covered in red ink.

you're right. my mistake, mac!

Hardy's poetry is ok. The short poems anyway. Distilled doom and gloom instead of an entire.... long.... depressing.... book.

Right, I'm off to the party. *dons costume*

oi oi oi

faulkner is really good. hes a difficult read, but far more rewarding than hardy/melville/dickens

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Okay, I have to say that I really enjoy Charles Dickens, and that my only complaint with Thomas Hardy is that I *HAVE* to read it, instead of doing it at my leisure (it's a really fun story).

But I'm going to agree with the people talking about Faulkner. He was a great author (I believe that someone previously mentioned "As I Lay Dying"), but I absolutely loathe him. If only he had been a bit less definite about making his characters words readable as if it was in their own speech, then I could've taken it. But reading As I Lay Dying for the first time was....well, I felt like I had discovered a literary version of MST3K that took days to get through.

*dashes into a guest room to change into her costume and heads for the banquet*

[Amy]

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