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Posted on 5/25/15 at 10:09 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
I think it is rather pretentious to stack the list with poets. Why no science fiction authors? Ray Bradbury, Michael Crichton, Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein will have more lasting influence on American literary culture than most of those poets.
Posted on 5/25/15 at 10:38 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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1. Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. Mark Twain
Tells me all that I need to know about this Bloom cat's greatness.
This post was edited on 5/25/15 at 10:56 am
Posted on 5/25/15 at 10:40 am to Poodlebrain
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Robert Heinlein will have more lasting influence on American literary culture than most of those poets.
Robert fricking Heinlein definitely more influential than Emily Dickenson. 
Posted on 5/25/15 at 11:07 am to Chef Leppard
Faulkner is awful
Posted on 5/25/15 at 11:11 am to Cosmo
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Faulkner is awful
GTFO. Faulkner is not an easy read and therefore the average American cannot and will not read him, but to say he is awful is just asinine.
Posted on 5/25/15 at 11:22 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
List like these are subjective to the reader but god damn, no
Charles Portis
Cormac McCarthy
Steinbeck
bullshite list
Charles Portis
Cormac McCarthy
Steinbeck
bullshite list
Posted on 5/25/15 at 11:24 am to Lakeboy7
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List like these are subjective to the reader but god damn, no
Charles Portis
Cormac McCarthy
Steinbeck
Bull shite list
Bloom is a huge McCarthy fan and has called him the greatest living American writer, fwiw.
Posted on 5/25/15 at 11:33 am to REG861
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Bloom is a huge McCarthy fan and has called him the greatest living American writer, fwiw.
Ok, but he is doing what critics do, you have to be dead to make the cut and American poetry is to American Lit like a grain of sand is to the beach.
Posted on 5/25/15 at 11:42 am to Roaad
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I'm sorry, but Stephen King deserves to be on that list of top-12. I know there is a bias against recent authors, but King is a God among men.
He absolutely deserves to be on that list
Posted on 5/25/15 at 11:46 am to Lakeboy7
Fair enough
Posted on 5/25/15 at 11:49 am to REG861
I'm just mad some of my favs didn't make it! and I hate poetry.
Posted on 5/25/15 at 11:49 am to Lakeboy7
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American poetry is to American Lit like a grain of sand is to the beach
... No. Just no. I agree they are over represented on this list, but American poetry is essential to American literature. It is much more than a grain of sand on the beach and to say otherwise is blasphemy. Hell, Whitman alone is a beach unto himself.
I also think the list is a joke and this guy is a hack, but whatever.
Posted on 5/25/15 at 11:51 am to lsu480
I'd like 10 dollars to win on the seven horse. 
Posted on 5/25/15 at 11:57 am to LoveThatMoney
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It is much more than a grain of sand on the beach and to say otherwise is blasphemy.
Ok that may have been a little strong
But to many poets on this particular list.
Posted on 5/25/15 at 11:59 am to Lakeboy7
Beverly Cleary !
This post was edited on 5/25/15 at 12:00 pm
Posted on 5/25/15 at 12:05 pm to Loveland Tiger
Twain is pretty damn amazing but he used the n-word so he should be banned from any list and all libraries
Posted on 5/25/15 at 12:07 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn".
-Ernest Hemingway
Ernie knew more about this issue than I ever will.
Steinbeck?
Poetry vs. Prose?
Prose all day, frick a poem.
-Ernest Hemingway
Ernie knew more about this issue than I ever will.
Steinbeck?
Poetry vs. Prose?
Prose all day, frick a poem.
This post was edited on 5/25/15 at 12:09 pm
Posted on 5/25/15 at 12:39 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Surprised to see Faulkner on this. I like him, but he's very polarizing.
Posted on 5/25/15 at 12:48 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Ah yes, I love list threads.
"This list doesn't reflect exactly how I would rank these items. This is is garbage and the author is a fraud."
"This list doesn't reflect exactly how I would rank these items. This is is garbage and the author is a fraud."
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