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David Wolosik's avatar

Great post. Impressive the way you covered the whole expanse. It is blasphemous the way great books like Huckleberry Finn have been edited or cancelled outright. Not great American, but two favorites if mine are J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, contemporaries and good friends. Tolkien got Lewis back to Christianity and Lewis convinced Tolkien to finish "Lord of the Rings"

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Rascal Nick Of's avatar

Interesting post. It is tragic that ideology has overtaken truth in the minds of the publishing gatekeepers. It seems that with all the great novels over the past 200 years, it would be a real achievement to write something that could honestly stand up with them. The greatest American novel I’ve read is To Kill a Mockingbird (but admittedly there are many very great ones I’ve not read). Greatest overall novel I’ve read is Brothers Karamazov. The books that most deeply affected me were Gulag Archipelago and A Tale of Two Cities.

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