Writers: A Room of Our Own

by Polly Whitney

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  • in reply to: Best Short Stories? #422

    Adam Brandenburg
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    Fantastic, thanks! I’ve read through Dubliners, but I’ll definitely check out this “A Lone Pilgrim” series.

  • in reply to: The Ten Best Novels? #258

    Adam Brandenburg
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    After much thought and with an eternally changing order:

    1. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (misogyny notwithstanding)

    2. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    3. The Stranger by Albert Camus

    4. A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean (technically a novella)

    5. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

    6. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

    7. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    8. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

    9. Moby Dick by Herman Melville

    10. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (minus the political preaching)

  • in reply to: The Ten Best Novels? #208

    Adam Brandenburg
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    Great list. I’d add a few of my favorites:

    A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
    The Stranger by Albert Camus

    Although I have to say I don’t get Empire Falls. What makes that novel great? Maybe I didn’t have it in me to relate to it.

  • in reply to: BEST MOVIES EVER, beautifully written #425

    Adam Brandenburg
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    If only movies actually could be produced using formulas and assembly lines, then perhaps fewer films would fail at their intention. Look into the auteur theory. Film director is one of the few dictatorial positions left in society. They sometimes control every aspect of production. Especially if the write it, they are responsible for a large portion of the piece. And even if the film is a product of many hands, why does that preclude it from being classified as art?

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