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posted April 20, 2008 12:44 AM |
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Edited by baklava at 00:47, 20 Apr 2008.
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Well, I read three of his books, and I found nothing remotely resembling literary value.
Well, you have your opinion, I have mine. I read over 20 of his books by the way (24, if I'm not mistaken)... Everything I got my hands upon.  You could call me a fanatic I guess.
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Ive read some books from Arthur clarke and got to say they really arent that much of literature
Are you kidding me? He was the Jules Verne of our age.
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posted April 20, 2008 03:13 AM |
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Slaughterhouse Five?
John Irving's work?
Confederacy of Dunces?
The Color Purple?
Song of Solomon?
Cormac McCarthy's books?
That's off the top of my head. If I sat around and thought of it, there'd be tons more that have been written in the last 40 years.
And Dune = literature? Wow. Just wow.
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posted April 20, 2008 03:36 AM |
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John Irving's work is merely average.
I haven't read any of the others.
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posted April 20, 2008 08:17 AM |
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Obviously, I was talking approximately. But I don't think that there's been any good books (besides the Dune series) that have come out after Catch-22.
What about Ender's Game?
Fight Club?
I was about to say A Wizard of Earthsea (Ursula Le Guin) but then I realized that turned 40 this year
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posted April 20, 2008 09:29 AM |
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I haven't read any of the others.
But that's exactly the point, isn't it? Because you haven't read every single book published in the last forty or so years, you can't say that none of them deserve to be called literature with that kind of certainity.
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posted April 20, 2008 09:51 AM |
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If "Dune series" is named "literature", what is the "Harry Potter" series called then?
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posted April 20, 2008 09:51 AM |
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But he didnt say they were not literature.
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posted April 20, 2008 09:55 AM |
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Am I the only one who thinks this thread is kind of weired?
5 pages of ranting (not everybody but mostly) about things you don't like... what's the idea?
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posted April 20, 2008 10:11 AM |
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....People who complain about ranting....
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posted April 20, 2008 02:29 PM |
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Well, I'll have to look into some of the books you recommended. But the next book on my reading list is "Atlas Shrugged".
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If "Dune series" is named "literature", what is the "Harry Potter" series called then?
It's good entertainment, but not really literature. The Dune series is, though.
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posted April 20, 2008 02:40 PM |
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The Dune series is, though.
why more than Harry Potter?
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posted April 20, 2008 06:08 PM |
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Because the Dune series contains far more content that makes you think.
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posted April 20, 2008 10:40 PM |
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Indeed it does. I agree there.
The Dune series are perhaps one of the greatest science-fiction series ever written, and contain just about as much content as, for example, Tolkien's books. And Harry Potter is simply a children's book (though a good children's book, I loved it when I was younger), which went teen mostly just for commercial purposes.
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posted April 20, 2008 11:15 PM |
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I was about to say A Wizard of Earthsea (Ursula Le Guin) but then I realized that turned 40 this year
Yeah, it was crap last year, but now it's definitely a true work of art.
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posted April 29, 2008 05:13 PM |
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The Dune series are perhaps one of the greatest science-fiction series ever written,...
Cross >>one of<< out and I'll agree .
Just kidding, I am only a great fan of Dune universe  .
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