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Old 11-12-2009, 09:17 PM   #61
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Dashiell Hammett
Hillaire Belloc

Ludwig von Mises, particularly Human Action
Frederick von Hayek, particularly The Road to Serfdom

I also expect certain singular novels will be read (but not the author's body of work), such as Catch-22.
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Old 11-12-2009, 10:25 PM   #62
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Old 11-12-2009, 10:45 PM   #63
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Old 11-12-2009, 11:27 PM   #64
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Old 11-13-2009, 04:50 AM   #65
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A couple I forgot in my earlier list :

Robertson Davies
William Trevor

And a couple who should be, but won't (probably) :

Ian McEwan
Alasdair Gray
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Old 11-13-2009, 09:32 AM   #66
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I believe I can think of one author who won't be read 100 years from now. I won't embarrass her by mentioning her name, but her initials are S.P.

You betcha'!
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Old 11-13-2009, 09:33 AM   #67
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Well, maybe her poetry...
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Old 11-13-2009, 11:41 AM   #68
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I believe I can think of one author who won't be read 100 years from now. I won't embarrass her by mentioning her name, but her initials are S.P.

You betcha'!
To be fair, not many people read Susan Powter NOW.
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Old 11-13-2009, 11:49 AM   #69
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To be fair, not many people read Susan Powter NOW.
You know, for a bald-headed babe, she ain't half bad.

Yeah, I said it! (Apologies to Wanda Sykes.)
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Old 11-13-2009, 12:29 PM   #70
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Most of the ones I would have listed have already been named but I will throw:

Vladimir Nabokov
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

into the mix. Apologies if they have already been named.

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Old 11-13-2009, 12:38 PM   #71
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Just finished reading a short story by Lester Del Rey....."The Day is Done".

Written in 1939, if this is any inkling of what the rest of his short stories were like......
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Old 11-13-2009, 01:13 PM   #72
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Old 11-13-2009, 01:19 PM   #73
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Oh, I hope so. I only recently discovered him (thanks to some good folks here at MobileRead) and now I find to my dismay that he is suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's. It will be a great day when that dreaded disease has finally been conquered. It has claimed too many of the brightest and best. (Arron Copeland comes to mind.)
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Old 11-13-2009, 04:52 PM   #74
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Well, maybe her poetry...
oh, THANK YOU for that ineffable moment of surreality. it's the most brilliant thing i've seen in some time. i'm still giggling.

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Most of the ones I would have listed have already been named but I will throw:

Vladimir Nabokov
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

into the mix. Apologies if they have already been named.

Mel
arg !! i can't believe i forgot nabokov !!! he's one of my favourite writers ever ! lists like this are mostly good for highlighting how terrible i am at making them.

...did i mention Dorothy L Sayers yet ? if not, ah, her.
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I didn't see Harper Lee mentioned, but I scrolled the thread pretty quickly. She deserves multiples anyway!

I just read To Kill a Mockingbird this summer. Absolutely one of the best books I've ever read, and shocked to discover it was her only book!

I've actually tried to discuss the book with several people. Universal response, "Oh, I had to read that in school." End of conversation.

I appreciated it, but I read it for enjoyment. However, being forced to read it -- or probably any book -- seems to be detrimental to the experience. As an example, I still can't stand my 9th Grade assigned The Good Earth..

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It will be horrible for most of us looking from the now into the future, but I can't see how the concept of authorship can survive a connected and real-time world. Look now at the most popular form of fiction; the video game. There's no author of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 or Batman: Arkham Asylum, and as those fictional experiences become more immersive, the creator/audience will blur into one another. Characters will survive, they always do. There are plenty of people now who can tell you who Sherlock Holmes is without knowing his creator. Everyone knows Batman too, but I bet there are very few people who can tell you the creator's name.

Again, it's not something I'm happy about, but I can't see how writing/reading as a form of pleasure will survive.
Video games are certainly progressing in their storytelling capability, but they're far more akin to a movies than books. They're more group efforts. They have a writer(s), a director(s), animators, story boards, cut scenes, etc. Everything inherited from making movies. And while I enjoy a good story, many games are just fun for the interactive aspect. Witness the multiplayer experience. Halo and COD had good storylines, but were heralded for their online play, and that has no story aspect at all.

So I really don't see that games and books are at all similar. And given that books have survived and thrived in the era of film, I don't think games pose any sort of threat at all.

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