Mark Twain - worlds greatest writer?

Or not? He did write some great American novels, and created some memorable characters.

Who wouldn't want to go down the old river with Huck and Tom, and Becky Thatcher?

 

Well he is a very good writer, for sure.

 

I'd go down on Becky Thatcher.

 

More like world's greatest sorcerer!

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Funny guy, but no. I still vote Victor Hugo and after him, Steinbeck.

 

My money's on Wilde

 

Salinger.

 

Eco.

 

Nah, I wouldn't say the worlds greatest writer, but that derned jumping frog was pretty entertaining!

 

I prefer Gil Brandt.

 

Oh, it's undoubtedly Kevin J. Anderson.

 

Oh, it's undoubtedly Kevin J. Anderson

Dammit, I was going to say that!

 

I didn't know they had internet in Bizaro World.

 

Twain is barely third rate. The top guys like Goethe, Holderlin, Dante and such are in a totally different league. Second rate guys like Thomas Mann or Henrik Ibsen are still WAY better than scribblers like Twain. Sorry to break the news to you uncultured fanboy types, but you're blind to art.

 

I like Steinbeck, Hemingway, Salinger, Orwell, Conrad, and Fitzgerald better.

-Seldon

 

bill clinton

 

I read Twain and threw up.

I guess I'm not a sucker for things written in a kind of style representative of the late 1800s/early early 1900s.

Now, Eliot on the other hand....

He's got everything- an amazing style, the references, and mystery inside his poetry... and I'm almost certain he's read just about every published work by mankind, but whatever...

 

Is that the Matrix of Leadership?


"Now light our darkest hour!"


No wonder he called it he "Gilded Age!"

 

I've only read one book of his, and I didn't like it. The writing was too hard to understand. :/