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Old 07-04-2011, 12:30 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by Ransom View Post
Considering how few good authors there have been during the past 50 years, I find most everything at Gutenberg like everyone else.
Few? Yes.
More than I can read? Yes as well.

Orhan Pamuk
Salman Rushdie
Khaled Hosseini
Umberto Eco
Louis De Bernieres
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ian McEWan

are all in my list of favorite writers and all contemporaneous.

And some of the recent Man Booker winners are also astonishingly good writiers... Steve Toltz, Aravind Adiga, Kazuo Ishiguro, Yann Martel come to mind.

By the way... to reply to the OP... when i am out of ideas, I check the list of Man Booker winners. I have yet to find one single bad book in that list. No other single award/recognition/critic seems to match my taste as that list does:

http://www.themanbookerprize.com/
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