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Old 02-14-2010, 08:56 PM   #15
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There are so many but I would say James Lee Burke and Dennis Lehane for so-called crime genre fiction because they take so much care to get things just right. One all should read is Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole because it's hilarious -- something that's really hard to pull off in a book. He breaks a lot of writing rules and gets away with it.


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Dunces is good but I'd recommend Tristem(1759 ), Soldier Schvejk(1923) or Catch 22 along with Dunces... same trick and more ideas for the potential writer in this line of writing anyways.....
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