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E. B. White 3 15.79%
Stephen King 11 57.89%
David Foster Wallace 5 26.32%
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Old 07-11-2011, 06:56 AM   #16
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Happy birthday to the author of Charlotte's Web! White was born on July 11, 1899.
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Old 07-11-2011, 08:04 AM   #17
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David Foster Wallace for me. Although I have not read anything by White. After the posts above mine, I must add, yet. DFW must have had a tremendous mind. It would be nice, for once, even for a brief moment to be that intelligent, like Algernon

King is nice and brilliant. But I do not feel attracted by him. I think I saw more movies from his books, rather than read the novels or the story themselves

I started reading Infinite Jest (suspended for more pressing readings), and I read a page or two once in a while. With great pleasure. What a genius for details, moods, thoughts, characters' perspective.

^ Elfwreck. Well, the body parts ... also on this side there are fine toys ...
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Old 07-11-2011, 10:12 AM   #18
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I'm not sure you'd like David Foster Wallace, Elfwreck. Intellectually, I would guess you would, but subjectively it's way too hard to say. If you want to give him a go though, I recommend Brief Interviews With Hideous Men. Being all shorts, you could quickly give up if it didn't suit, without that compulsion to finish the whole book (which is me projecting, because that's my compulsion. ). I very much liked this book, and I've Infinite Jest on my TBR.
Several of his essays for Harper's are available as PDFs; I'm going to try a few of those, starting with Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage, and from a different site, Federer as Religious Experience. (I have approximately zero interest in tennis, but much interest in religion.)

I am not, unfortunately, going to budge on the "no DRM" rule for ebooks, and it's unlikely I'll track down hard copy of an unfamiliar author. (I don't like reading paper anymore. There are authors I know I love whom I have to read on paper; I'm trying to avoid adding to that list.)
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Old 07-11-2011, 02:42 PM   #19
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I would recommend "The Girl With Curious Hair," his first book of short stories.

This was my introduction to him about 20 years ago, and I loved it.



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Old 07-11-2011, 06:11 PM   #20
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Several of his essays for Harper's are available as PDFs; I'm going to try a few of those, starting with Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage, and from a different site, Federer as Religious Experience. (I have approximately zero interest in tennis, but much interest in religion.)

I am not, unfortunately, going to budge on the "no DRM" rule for ebooks, and it's unlikely I'll track down hard copy of an unfamiliar author. (I don't like reading paper anymore. There are authors I know I love whom I have to read on paper; I'm trying to avoid adding to that list.)
I've only read him in paper...did not think to search for ebook (and, yes, my Infinite Jest is a mighty tree-brick in size). I would have sent you ...Hideous Men if you hadn't that necessity (which I empathize with. I'm now trying to avoid pbooks myself).

I do hope you like what you read. He was one of those "Remember, this is why you read, Marc" authors for me. And eventually they'll all meet your no-DRM requirements, right? Right?!

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Old 07-11-2011, 06:25 PM   #21
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I do hope you like what you read. He was one of those "Remember, this is why you read, Marc" authors for me. And eventually they'll all meet your no-DRM requirements, right? Right?!
If I really love his essays and decide I want to read more, I'll buy used copies from Amazon & cut & scan into ebooks. It creeps me out to buy new books to chop them up, but I've done that too. (But generally, I look for used, both because it's cheaper, and because if a publisher won't release an ebook in a format I'll use, I don't want to pay them for it.)
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Old 07-11-2011, 07:28 PM   #22
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Of the three choices offered I wish I could write like David Foster Wallace. Of the three I would rather be Stephen King because of his money, and most important he is the only one still alive. Being a corpse mouldering in its grave or heap of ash does not appeal to me.
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Old 07-11-2011, 08:15 PM   #23
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Old 07-12-2011, 03:10 PM   #24
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Since if you are going to BE somone you have to take the bad with the good-- then I'll stick with being myself. That said, King is on the great popular novelists and I think his work will live on after he's gone. I wouldn't mind that kind of immortality.
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Old 07-14-2011, 09:45 AM   #25
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All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
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Well that cinches that. I'd definitely liked to have known him, but I couldn't be him. The world never was that fond of me, and the feeling is usually mutual.

The birthdate explains Monday's xkcd a little more though. Good to know.
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