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Sat Aug-26-06 10:14 PM Original message |
Poll question: What is the Great American Novel? |
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Sat Aug-26-06 10:22 PM Response to Original message |
1. Has to be Gatsby... |
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Sat Aug-26-06 11:54 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. In "Gatsby," is the narrator lying? |
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Sun Aug-27-06 08:39 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. I've never heard that theory before... |
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Sun Aug-27-06 10:14 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. One American Lit. professor told our class once to keep in mind that the |
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Sun Aug-27-06 12:52 PM Response to Reply #14 |
28. Your professor was probably teaching narrative theory |
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Sat Aug-26-06 11:58 PM Response to Original message |
3. Gone With the Wind |
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Sun Aug-27-06 12:05 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I should have listed that instead of one of the others. |
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Sun Aug-27-06 07:20 AM Response to Original message |
5. "Main Street" by Sinclair Lewis |
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Sun Aug-27-06 10:20 AM Response to Reply #5 |
17. I'll have to read it. The only one of his books I've read is "The Jungle" |
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Sun Aug-27-06 10:58 AM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Upton Sinclair wrote "The Jungle" |
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Sun Aug-27-06 11:55 AM Response to Reply #21 |
25. Sorry my bad! |
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Sun Aug-27-06 07:26 AM Response to Original message |
6. Definitely |
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Sun Aug-27-06 07:31 AM Response to Original message |
7. i had to go with moby dick. |
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Sun Aug-27-06 08:50 AM Response to Original message |
9. GOW.... |
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Sun Aug-27-06 10:15 AM Response to Reply #9 |
15. Also a great movie, though much in the book was left out from the movie. |
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Sun Aug-27-06 09:58 AM Response to Original message |
10. Gatsby... |
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Sun Aug-27-06 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
11. just for the sake of argument I would like to suggest: |
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Sun Aug-27-06 10:18 AM Response to Reply #11 |
16. In cold blood wasn't a novel.... |
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Sun Aug-27-06 10:30 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. and why not? where am I supposed to go on that link? |
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Sun Aug-27-06 10:06 AM Response to Original message |
12. Gatsby, by far. |
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Sun Aug-27-06 10:10 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Creepy... |
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Sun Aug-27-06 07:25 PM Response to Reply #12 |
32. Hear, hear... |
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Sun Aug-27-06 10:23 AM Response to Original message |
18. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. |
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Sun Aug-27-06 10:54 AM Response to Original message |
20. To Kill A Mockingbird...hell yes! |
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Sun Aug-27-06 11:30 AM Response to Original message |
22. I have to go with |
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Sun Aug-27-06 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
23. "East of Eden" |
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Sun Aug-27-06 11:54 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Great book! And pretty good movie too. |
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Sun Aug-27-06 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
26. There is no "Great American Novel" Why the hell do people always have to |
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Sun Aug-27-06 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
27. Has anyone here read a novel since 1970? |
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Sun Aug-27-06 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
29. Babbit! |
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Sun Aug-27-06 07:27 PM Response to Reply #29 |
33. big ups |
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Sun Aug-27-06 01:16 PM Response to Original message |
30. To Kill A Mockingbird |
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Sun Aug-27-06 06:43 PM Response to Original message |
31. The unwritten book in my head. |
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Sun Aug-27-06 07:35 PM Response to Original message |
34. I think we have to split it into eras - Huck Finn for pre-1900s America, |
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