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Originally Posted by issybird
Post-1970 is killing me. The books just don't have the intellectual heft of earlier years.
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I think of best more as simply the most enjoyable rather than the most intellectual heft. Of course, intellectual heft can and often does factor into enjoyment for me, but oftentimes it doesn't as well.
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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
70s The Complete Stories Flannery O'Conner
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I considered the singular short story A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor for the 50s decade but passed since that really isn't a "book", but it is some of the best fiction writing of the 20th century in my opinion (same for the short story Guests of a Nation by Frank O'Connor).