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Bossy Monkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-25-09 07:18 PM Original message |
Poll question: Who writes/wrote the best sentences? |
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Tuesday Afternoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-25-09 07:20 PM Response to Original message |
1. Jane Austen. |
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Bossy Monkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-25-09 07:27 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. I'll do it! Don't push me! |
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Mike 03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-25-09 07:22 PM Response to Original message |
2. Of the authors on this list, I had to vote for Hemingway, even though there are better authors |
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Mike 03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-25-09 07:25 PM Response to Original message |
3. If I may add some authors who are favorites of mine in terms of sentence |
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Bossy Monkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-25-09 07:28 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. I'll start with Pynchon; maybe add a few more if others aren't stimulated n/t |
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Redneck Socialist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-25-09 07:28 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Have you read any Dennis Johnson? |
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Bossy Monkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-25-09 07:58 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. I'll consider this a seconding vote for Cormac McCarthy n/t |
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Phillycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-25-09 07:29 PM Response to Original message |
7. Dorothy Parker, Jane Austin, Richard Russo, Jonathan Franzen, Neil Gaiman |
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Bossy Monkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-25-09 07:34 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. NOBODY has to suggest Dorothy Parker to me twice for anything!:) n/t |
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Phillycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-25-09 07:45 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. Well, I mean, for sentences, she's hard to beat. :D |
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Bossy Monkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-25-09 08:14 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. I hear that Shakespeare fellow's pretty good, too. |
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Phillycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-26-09 12:39 AM Response to Reply #19 |
23. Hee! No, my name is actually Cat. |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-26-09 02:47 AM Response to Reply #14 |
27. And I am the Queen of Rumania! |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-25-09 07:31 PM Response to Original message |
8. Sorry, gotta go with Papa here |
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Tuesday Afternoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-25-09 07:36 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Less is more. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-25-09 07:38 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. As Louis Armstrong said... |
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frogmarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-25-09 07:43 PM Response to Original message |
12. Douglas Adams wrote so well that |
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Bossy Monkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-25-09 07:46 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. I think of him as writing the best paragraphs. |
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kentauros (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-26-09 01:03 AM Response to Reply #15 |
24. I voted for Adams, too. |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-25-09 07:45 PM Response to Original message |
13. hmm, for short, terse sentences, Hemingway |
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YankeyMCC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-25-09 07:49 PM Response to Original message |
16. You want powerful stuff in very short form nothing beats Michael Swanwick's |
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Tyrone Slothrop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-25-09 07:55 PM Response to Original message |
17. I'll go with Pynchon |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-25-09 09:19 PM Response to Original message |
20. I voted for Pynchon, but I think it's crazy that you don't include Beckett in this list |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-25-09 10:05 PM Response to Original message |
21. F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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Zorro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-25-09 10:07 PM Response to Original message |
22. Lawrence Durrell |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-26-09 01:33 AM Response to Original message |
25. Hemingway kicked mucho ass. |
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Bossy Monkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-26-09 08:10 AM Response to Reply #25 |
31. Didn't. Dash (or Sam, if you prefer) has been sitting atop the poll with no votes all night n/t |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-26-09 08:45 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Well call me Blindy Blinderson! (n/t) |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-26-09 01:52 AM Response to Original message |
26. Edward George Bulwer-Lytton |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-26-09 02:49 AM Response to Original message |
28. G. W. Bush. |
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Lyric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-26-09 06:19 AM Response to Original message |
29. Faulkner, of course. |
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6000eliot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-26-09 06:52 AM Response to Original message |
30. Hemmingway on your list, |
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