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For novels I like Hemingway, Updike, Garcia Marquez, and Vargas Llosa the best. For true crime, Wambaugh.



Can't you get banned from XPT for reading stuff like that?

Not too long ago I finally read "For Whom the Bell Tolls". It was assigned in Secondary School, High School, and College and I never read it until a few months ago.

I read "The Sun Also Rises" many years ago (after also skipping it in school) as a drunken bum in Rota, Spain on a bus ride back from a bullfight in Madrid to Barcelona and loved it. Since then, I try to read something by Hemmingway every year, even if it is a short story.

No matter how much of a "big name" Hemmingway is, he is an under-appreciated genius.

Hemmingway and Wambaugh are writers. Updike is over-rated. Garcia Marquez is a one hit wonder and I don't know Vargas Llosa from a hole in the wall.

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