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10-31-2005, 10:46 PM
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Who is a perfect writer?
Left and right, I hear writers tearing apart famous writers on their techniques, and I'm not talking in a friendly critiquing way. Sometimes I can agree, because some writers are famous for the wrong reasons, but other times I'm surprised. A novel or author I found quite enjoyable is a  to someone else. So, I was wondering -
Who IS a perfect writer?
Give me a name of a famous writer. I would love to analyze them at my own discretion.
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10-31-2005, 11:36 PM
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11-01-2005, 12:01 AM
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I don't think there can be a 'perfect' writer. Would that mean that he/she is perfect in the eyes of EVERY reader? Impossible. Here are a couple books I consider pretty near perfect
Cannery Row -John Steinbeck
Notes From Underground -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Invisible Man -Ralph Ellison
A Walk on the Wild Side -Nelson Algren
Lolita -Vladimir Nabokov
Maybe Steinbeck is close to perfect? In my eyes anyway. And what about Shakespeare... if university courses center on his work... 400 years later... he's probably pretty good. I'm not a big fan personally, but that's not because he isn't good.
My vote goes to Steinbeck.
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11-01-2005, 12:06 AM
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yeah I'm a big of Steinback as well, he's written some pretty amazing works. I agree that a "perfect writer" is almost implausible, since all writers have faults and it is usually those faults that add to the originality and innovativeness of their styles. Personally, To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee is one of my absolute favorite books. It's proven to stand the test of time and Harper Lee made one of the hardest, yet most profitable strategic moves in the writing world: she quit while she was ahead. Perhaps her next book would have been the Danielle Steel novel of her time (sorry Danielle Steel fans), you never know. So I think she comes close to perfect because the only thing we can judge her is by something that is, in my minds, close to perfect.
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11-01-2005, 12:35 AM
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No one is perfect
AND
I am no one.
Regards,
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11-01-2005, 01:27 AM
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Steinbeck is dreafully boring, he's got to be the worst writer outside F. Scott Fitzgerald.
I agree about Dostoyevsky though, Crime and Punishment is truly the bset book ever written.
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11-01-2005, 01:31 AM
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11-01-2005, 02:11 AM
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I thought about this for a while before coming to the conclusion Henry Miller has the goods. No one is quite as exhilerating as Mr. Miller when he gets cooking. Been so long since I've read him I completely overlooked him in other threads dealing with this kind of thing. But yeah, that guy could fucking soar. So much joy, so much squalor, so much curiosity, so much lust, so much truth. Tip o' the hat to Henry.
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11-01-2005, 04:23 AM
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- Italo Calvino;
- John Steinbeck;
- Kazuo Ishiguro;
- John Banville;
- Jeffrey Eugenides;
- Virginia Woolf
Why not have a look at all the books and authors discussed here? There is a wide variety of classic and contemporary, English and foreign, sylists and plotters, etc. |
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11-01-2005, 10:10 AM
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Steinbeck is dreafully boring
Dem's fight'n words! 
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11-01-2005, 10:13 AM
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Henry Miller has the goods. No one is quite as exhilerating as Mr. Miller when he gets cooking.
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Miller IS great, I agree!
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11-01-2005, 07:03 PM
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Steinbeck? You have it all wrong, the perfect, most breath taking author is Dan Brown, king of literature. His work is enthralling, thought-provoking and - ya I cant finish that one either, hes rubbish. I think Bret Easton Ellis is some what of a perfect writer, but his work has flaws like every other author, just dont go bloody saying James Joyce, Ulysses nearly killed me.
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11-01-2005, 07:21 PM
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I would say... Kenneth Roberts... or at least that is my favorite. No one is perfect, that goes for writers too no matter how big and bad they think they are.
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11-01-2005, 07:26 PM
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How about Homer? The original, the greatest? Not that I've read his stuff!
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11-01-2005, 08:23 PM
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Steinbeck? You have it all wrong, the perfect, most breath taking author is Dan Brown, king of literature. His work is enthralling, thought-provoking and - ya I cant finish that one either, hes rubbish. I think Bret Easton Ellis is some what of a perfect writer, but his work has flaws like every other author, just dont go bloody saying James Joyce, Ulysses nearly killed me.
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You're asking me to take apart Angels and Demons, perhaps the most awful and badly written book I've ever been able not to finish. |
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