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Anyone else a fan of his books? Have read a few: Vile Bodies, Decline and Fall, Handful of Dust, and just finished Brideshead. This dude can write. Seriously, he and MacClennan make Hemmingway and Fitzgerald look like pussies.
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Hugh Maclennan makes Hemingway look like a pussy?
Please.
The way The Sun Also Rises climaxes and then makes life into so much white noise: that's a stylistic tour de force, right there, a writer's lesson on how to write.
Where does MacLennan hit that level of mastery?
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It's true. Hemmingway is a legend.
A more accomplished writer in terms of style and substance, I have not come across.
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Hemmingway is full of macho bullshit bravado.
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Fitzgerald was a drunk hack that wrote one good book.
