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Ozymandias:
--- Quote from: Felix_ on 08 Dec 2007, 01:08 ---Mikhail Bulgakov.
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Heart of a Dog, heck yes.
Also, I think Harlan Ellison will be more remembering for being an outspoken douche than his actual body of work. That's his own fault, though, because he's far louder than than his work is.
Alex C:
Very true. I figured that to be such common knowledge as not to be worth mentioning, however. I mean, really, Ellison is a tiny, extremely bitter man. If I remember correctly, he had a fictional "about the Author" section in one of his books that described him spending jailtime for murdering his most outspoken critics. He went into considerable detail as to the methods used.
RedLion:
With any luck, Dan Brown will be looked back on as an over-bearing, talentless nobody who doesn't understand the concept of subtlety. The Da Vinci code was the biggest piece of trash I've ever laid hands upon.
I'm sure J.K. Rowling will retain her place for quite some time, at least through Harry Potter, in the way that The Chronicles of Narnia have, for now, immortalized Lewis. Cormac McCarthy will be remembered, but likely only as a niche author, along with Thomas Pynchon. Speaking of Pynchon, "V" and "Gravity's Rainbow" will remain classic giants of literary genius in the same category as books like Les Miserables and War and Peace, not because their subject matter or writing style is in any way similar, but because only the most devoted of readers will take it upon themselves to wade through such a dense, deep, emotionally and mentally draining masterpiece.
I'm not sure about King. He could be looked back on and mocked, or he could be hailed as some kind of horror-genre hero.
Aimless:
Astrid Lindgren is, and will hopefully remain, one of the most memorable writers of our time :)
TheFuriousWombat:
--- Quote from: RedLion on 16 Dec 2007, 12:54 ---With any luck, Dan Brown will be looked back on as an over-bearing, talentless nobody who doesn't understand the concept of subtlety. The Da Vinci code was the biggest piece of trash I've ever laid hands upon.
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Dan Brown will not be looked back on at all. In 20 years no one will even know his name.
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