Thread: Will e-books spell the end of great writing?
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Old 12-07-2009, 06:55 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by GA Russell View Post
As I recall, in 1999 some group made a list of the twentieth century's best 100 novels, and nearly all of them were written before 1950.
I suspect that's simply because it takes a couple of generations of readers before a novel is widely accepted as being "great".
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