The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In History

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The list of read or unread?





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Among the set of people who read serious literature (admittedly tiny compared to Harry Potter fans), I'd think Joyce and Flaubert would be high on the list.
  
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Do you think -- know -- that   this is true?  I mean, of course it is, in some sort of context:    they're not going to be read like the Harry Potter books but, here in   NYC anyway, I think Joyce and Flaubert still very much resonate among    serious readers.  Little read would be Marguerite Young or Djuna Barnes or   Gerald Basil Edwards.    
  
Flaubert     is highly praised but little read, as is Joyce. 


  


  
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29. Robert Louis Stevenson on Walt   Whitman   
“…like   a large shaggy dog just unchained scouring the beaches of the world and baying   at the moon.”
  
This could be a particularly literate compliment for a rock album.    Hard to take the word unchained as an insult. 
  


  
One thing this exercise  shows is that strong writers have strong   opinions. It also proves that you don't have to like it  no matter   how"good" it is.  People just like what they like.  Flaubert is   highly praised but little read, as is Joyce.  I started loving C McCarthy   and now can't stand his macho last man standing against the devil shit.    
  
  
On Jun 20, 2011, at 11:40 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

  
    
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Dave Monroe
<against.the.dave at gmail.com>     wrote:

    
http://flavorwire.com/188138/the-30-harshest-author-on-author-insults-in-history


Thanks,     Basileios Drolias!





 
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