Greatest Authors of the 19th Century....American and English

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His problem with obedience to God's law, particularly the 3rd commandment, really puts me off Mark Twain...
 
I am a real sucker for Hemingway (b. 1899). And Roald Dahl (sixteen years too late). And Alan Paton (three years too late, wrong hemisphere). And Chaim Potok (29 years too late).

The problem I have with Dickens (and a number of other Brits) is that he has a tendency to "get lost in the furniture" at some point. I've read plenty of them but, for instance, there is a little 'aside' in the Pickwick papers that I can never get past. It is the Leviticus of British literature. Bleh. (Wilde does this to a lesser extent at times.)

Poe rocks.

PS - My apologies if anyone is offended by the comparison of any part of the word of God to something that is so boring it makes my teeth fall out. It is my own failing, but that's the one place in the Bible that I get stuck and just can't get past...
 
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