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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I went through something similar, though my classics of the time were primarily what I thought of as the Great Americans. I read almost everything Steinbeck wrote. And lots of Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. I never truly warmed up to Hemingway. But I loved Fitzgerald and Steinbeck.
I do think you're missing out on something when you dismiss 'classics' as a genre. Poe's stories and The Grapes of Wrath are both classics. But that's about all they have in common.
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From what we've found out, these "great American authors" may not be great. In fact, some may be not nice people even if they are a product of their time.