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Old 11-15-2009, 04:18 AM   #91
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Fair question. Here's my list of needed attributes...
3. The work has to be self-contained. Let me expand on this. It has to describe a world without a reference to the current times in which it was written. The concerns of the items of the books are not topical. it's the difference between Uncle Toms Cabin and Huckleberry Finn.
I reckon that's one of the reasons Terry Pratchett's work won't last.
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Old 11-15-2009, 10:12 AM   #92
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Sometimes i'm bemused at what has stay popular so far. Let's face it, Doc Savage is not high art. Yet those old 1930's and '40s pulps have sold and sold and sold....

Will they be read in 2100? Who knows. Who thought they'd be still be read in 2010?
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Here are my top three picks for various genres (there were a couple ties ) These aren't all necessarily my favorites, but they are the ones I think will survive a hundred years from now (and most are favorites).

Literature
__1. Ernest Hemingway
__2. John Steinbeck
__3. (tie) William Faulkner
__3. (tie) Virginia Woolf
Playwright
__1. Tennessee Williams
__2. Samuel Beckett
__3. Arthur Miller
Horror
__1. Stephen King
__2. H.P. Lovecraft
__3. Anne Rice
Action/Adventure
__1. Jack London
__2. Ian Fleming
__3. (tie) John Grisham
__3. (tie) Tom Clancy
Mystery
__1. Agatha Christie
__2. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
__3. (tie) Dashiell Hammett
__3. (tie) Raymond Chandler
Science Fiction
__1. Isaac Asimov
__2. Robert A. Heinlein
__3. (tie) Arthur C. Clarke
__3. (tie) Philip K. Dick
__3. (tie) Neal Stephenson
Fantasy
__1. J.R.R. Tolkien
__2. J.K. Rowling
__3. Edgar Rice Burroughs
Western
__1. Zane Gray
__2. Louis L'Amour
__3. Elmore Leonard
Poet
__1. Robert Frost
__2. T.S. Eliot
__3. (tie) e.e. cummings
__3. (tie) Maya Angelou
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Old 11-15-2009, 12:49 PM   #94
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Here are my top three picks for various genres (there were a couple ties ) ...
That's a smashing good list there, Daithi!
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Old 11-15-2009, 12:57 PM   #95
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__1. Robert Frost
__2. T.S. Eliot
__3. (tie) e.e. cummings
__3. (tie) Maya Angelou
I doubt he'll be on anyone's required reading list 100 years from now, but I've always had a soft spot in my heart for Richard Brautigan.
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Old 11-15-2009, 02:15 PM   #98
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__3. Elmore Leonard
Great suggestion! Between his western and his crime stories, I think Leonard's a good bet.
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Old 11-16-2009, 03:29 PM   #101
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Primo Levi (If this is a Man)
Ruth Klüger (Weiter Leben. Eine Jugend, or the En-US version Still Alive really is worth your time)
Julian May
Neal Stephenson
Hofstadter
Federico García Lorca
Jorge Luis Borges
Coetzee
toni morrison
B.F. Skinner (Walden II)
Aldous L. Huxley
Terry Pratchett
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Thomas Mann

&c.?
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Yes! Oh, please, yes. (And, for those in the US, this title is also known as Survival in Auschwitz).
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I really hope Anna Frank and Aleksandr Solženicyn will still be read in the future centuries, along with Harper Lee and George Orwell.

I'd like also to add a few Italian authors, in no particular order, to this list:

Alberto Moravia
Leonardo Sciascia
Gabriele d'Annunzio
Dino Buzzati
Stefano Benni
Luigi Pirandello
Antonio Fogazzaro
Giovannino Guareschi
Riccardo Bacchelli
Mario Rigoni Stern
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