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rank these writers from approximatley the same time period. give reasons why if you want

ernest hemingway
f scott fitzgerald
james joyce
william faulkner
john steinbeck
george orwell
jd salinger

>> No.3067477

1 - James Joyce
2 - F Scott Fitzgerald
3 - John Steinbeck
4 - George Orwell
5 - JD Salinger
6 - Ernest Heminway

Havent read any of William Faulkner

>> No.3067481

Steinbeck
Salinger
Orwell
Hemingway
Stephanie Meyers
Faulkner

>> No.3067484

1 - F. Scott Fitzgerald
2- James Joyce
3 - John Steinbeck
4 - William Faulkner
5 - Ernest Hemingway
6 - George Orwell
7 - JD Salinger

Rationale: solely based on how much I liked their works

>>3067477
wanna make out

>> No.3067482

1. Faulkner

3. Joyce
3. Salinger

4. Fitzgerald

5. Steinbeck
5. Hemingway
5. Orwell

>> No.3067487

>>3067481

What's wrong with Faulkner, assclown?

DEAL WITH HIM HEMMINGWAY

>> No.3067491

Faulkner
Joyce
Steinbeck
Hemingway
Salinger
Fitzy
Orwell

No reason.

>> No.3067492

james joyce
george orwell
ernest hemingway
john steinbeck

fuck the haters

>> No.3067561
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3067561

>All these pedant joyce cock gobblers.

>> No.3067564

>>3067561

There are, at most, only three authors on that list that can be said to be better than him

>> No.3067578

Fitzgerald
Joyce
Steinbeck
Orwell
Salinger
Faulkner
Hemingway

>> No.3067586

1 Joyce
2 Faulkner
3 Fitzgerald
4 Orwell
5 Hemingway
6 Salinger

Have never read Steinbeck (sorry)

>> No.3068397

>>3067457
From best to worst:

1. jd salinger
(Sucessfully makes a point and drives it home; some dude even killed Lennon because of this book, which is proof that it's at least powerfully written.)

2. john steinbeck
(A writer who knows his craft and knows how to mindfuck you emotionally over insignificant things.)

3. ernest hemingway
(Tryhard with mommy issues, but a lasting and powerful influence as a stylist.)

4. george orwell
(Highschool-level books with McCarthyist anti-communist bullshit, but something accessible to a retarded highschool student can't be _all_ bad.)

5. william faulkner
(A badly done Lovecraft epigone. More valuable as a foppish style icon of the American South than a writer.)

6. james joyce
(Pretentious, uneducated Irish blackface farce. I weep for Éire.)

Never read Fitzgerald, thank God.

>> No.3068400

>>3068397

>A badly done Lovecraft epigone. More valuable as a foppish style icon of the American South than a writer

Are you fucking kidding? This is probably the stupidest thing I've ever read on this board, time to leave.

>> No.3068404

>>3067457
Faulkner
Joyce
Fitzgerald
Hemingway
Steinbeck

Honestly, Orwell and Salinger don't belong on that list. Orwell was a political writer, and Salinger can just go suck a bag of dicks.

>> No.3068413

Faulker
Joyce
Orwell
Steinbeck
Hemingway
Fitzgerald
Salinger

>> No.3068415

>>3068400
don't worry, he's definitely trolling. i hope

>> No.3068418

>>3068400
>Are you fucking kidding? This is probably the stupidest thing I've ever read on this board, time to leave.

Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out, dipshit.

P.S. People only like Faulkner because they can't handle Negro literature due to their deep-seated racist prejudices.

Any random black author >>>> Faulkner.

>> No.3068421

>>3068404
Have you ever read anything other than Catcher in the Rye by Salinger? He is a great writer

>> No.3068422

>>3068418

Thank god you're trolling.

>implying I don't read African/African-American literature and Faulkner with equal gusto

>> No.3068425

>>3068421
I wasn't a fan of Catcher, but I honestly don't think that people should badmouth Salinger because of that. He made it a point to make Caulfield or whatever the fuck his name was a dumbfuck. And he hated everyone who went up to him and told him that they could relate to the character.

>> No.3068427

>>3068422
>Thank god you're trolling.

Of course -- obviously anybody who disagrees with you is a dirty, neckbeard anti-american troll!

>implying I don't read African/African-American literature and Faulkner with equal gusto

You obviously don't. Otherwise how could you even _compare_, say, Ralph Ellison with a hack like Faulkner?

>> No.3068433

>>3068425
He was essential Holden when he was younger so I doubt he would be angry about that. I think he wants the reader not only to make a connection with Holden but find the turning point and follow it as well. The reason why he was angry was because he believed that the people who related to Holden felt affirmed by Catcher which is exactly not what Salinger wanted to do.

>> No.3068436

>>3068421
no, I guess I should read some of his other stuff.
That book was honestly just so bad that I probably will never read anything else by Salinger though.

>> No.3068440

>>3068436
Franny and Zooey is pretty good and it doesn't take place in the mind of a teenager.

>> No.3068449

Steinbeck=Faulkner>Fitzgerald>Salinger>Joyce>Hemingway>Orwell

>> No.3068461

>>3068449

Close, but Salinger was greater than Fitz or Steinbeck. Faulkner was greater than all of them

>> No.3068485

Joyce
Faulkner
Fitzgerald
Steinbeck
Hemingway
Orwell
Salinger

This was harder than I expected. For the record, I like all of them a fair amount (except for Salinger), so a low ranking doesn't mean anything too bad. Orwell only has one great novels among good and mediocre other novels and essays. Fitzgerald just barely inches out Steinbeck because I ultimately prefer his prose when it comes down to it, though I do love Steinbeck's simple prose.

>> No.3068487

>>3067482
>Faulkner above Joyce

Weird seeing the sloppy apprentice take a higher positon than the master.

>> No.3068489

>>3068487

Joyce was a squab next to Bill

>> No.3068532

>>3068397
>Orwell
>anti-communist
>McCarthyist

0/10

>> No.3068576

>>3068532

Claiming that Orwell isn't a McCarthy-lite anti-communist is like claiming that Obama is liberal.

i.e., only somebody who has been permanently warped by the retarded American political and social regime can say something that stupid.

>> No.3068580

>>3068576
Orwell was dead before that term even came into use. Are you fucking stupid?

>> No.3068590

>>3068576
The motherfucker was a socialist, you cunt.

>> No.3068604

>>3068590

It is a troll.

>> No.3068612

ernest hemingway
f scott fitzgerald
james joyce
william faulkner
john steinbeck
george orwell
jd salinger

1. Hemingway
2. Faulkner
3. Steinbeck
4. Orwell
5. Joyce
6. Fitzgerald
Last: Salinger

>> No.3068620

>>3068612

Troll or highschooler, it's time to leave.

>> No.3068621

>>3068580
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwell%27s_list

>> No.3068622

>>3068397
By that rationale Mao Tse Tung should be in top.

>> No.3068626

>>3068620
The last author: Angsty teens
Sixth place: Hipster teens
Fifth place: Prententious teens
Fourth place: Political teens
Third place: Working men or women
Second place: Academical men or women
First place: For men or women

You'll understand when you grow up and quit school.

>> No.3068630

>dat rationale

>> No.3068631

>>3068626

Upstanding review. Scathing commentary.

All of these authors are pretty extraordinary in their own right, the fact that you're willing to toss aside the body of Salinger's work as being intended for 'Angsty teens' shows me how little you've read of his work and how much less you've thought about it. The same could be said for the rest of your notions.

>Hemingway for men or women

Have you read his work?

>> No.3068640

>>3068631
How little you've read of his work
>Salinger
>Work

>> No.3068642

>>3068640

What have you read of his?

>> No.3068647

>>3068642
The Catcher in the Rye, which I dare to say is his only novel. Yes, I know about the his short stories and the novellas.

But if you ask me, Salinger doesn't even belong in this "list", if we are supposed to do these things.

>> No.3068661

>>3068647

>The Catcher In The Rye

Shocking.

Go read Franny and Zooey or Raise High The Roofbeams, Carpenters and sit back as your mind gets blown.

>> No.3068676

>>3068661
Oh, dear someone is insulting my taste on the internet. I feel mortified.

>> No.3068682

>>3068661
bad advice, read carpenters last, read it after all the short stories, all the unpublished shorts, after hapworth, try to save until you can't put it off for as long as you can, you can only read it the first time once.

>> No.3068687

>>3068682
bad advice, read all the books, all the short stories, all the unpublished shorts from all the authors in the world, try to save until you can't put it off for as long as you can, you can only read it the first time

>> No.3068697

>>3068687
bad advice, read the greeks first, they never grow stale and each rereading will only be more and more rewarding.

>> No.3070241

>>3068397
>anti-communist bullshit


wow

please die in a fire

>> No.3070255

Top shelf: Faulkner, Joyce
Mid shelf: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck
bottom shelf: Orwell, Salinger

>> No.3070280

1. John Steinbeck
2. James Joyce
3. William Faulkner
4. Ernest Hemingway
5. JD Salinger
6. George Orwell
7. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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>>3068397
>4. george orwell
>(Highschool-level books with McCarthyist anti-communist bullshit, but something accessible to a retarded highschool student can't be _all_ bad.)
So, while in high school you were made to read Animal Farm and 1984. Okay, now read his non-fiction journalism-hybrids Homage to Catalonia and Down and Out in Paris and London.

>> No.3070376

>>3067457
Joyce
FitzG
Faulkner
.... big drop off ....
Hemingway
Orwell
Salinger

never read Steinbeck :)

>> No.3070381

>>3068397
this is the stupidest but also most representative post of /lit/ ever

if this was a troll 9.5/10 -- godly work there, son

>> No.3070392

>>3070255

Why is top shelf a good thing? They're harder to reach. huehuehue

>> No.3070412

Steinbeck
Joyce
Hemingway
Faulkner
Fitzgerald
Orwell
Salinger

>> No.3070415

>>3070392
only if you are a midget is the bottom shelf easier to reach than the top shelf

>> No.3070425

THE NOVEL
1. James Joyce
2. William Faulkner
3. John Steinbeck
4. F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. Ernest Hemingway
6. J.D Salinger
7. George Orwell

SHORT FICTION
1. James Joyce
2. Ernest Hemingway
3. William Faulkner
4. J.D Salinger
5. John Steinbeck
6. F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. George Orwell

>> No.3070452

1. Joyce
2. Orwell
3. Hemingway
4. Steinbeck
5. Fitzgerald
6. Salinger
7: Faulkner

>>3068397
Orwell was a socialist dipshit