: Next time you have some free time, Claude, try reading something from Victor
: Hugo (Notre-dame de Paris,) Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart,) Fyodor
: Dostoyevsky (House of the Dead,) Ernest Hemingway (Death in the
: Afternoon,) William Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury,) Jerzy Kosinski (The
: Painted Bird) or anyone else that actually care about what they produce.
This is great and all but it seems to me that you're trying to say that anything not in the Barnes and Noble "Classic Selections" section is worthless tripe, barely acceptable as a toilet paper substitute. I'm sorry, but after long day I'd rather relax with an easy to read paperback King or Clancy instead of Tolstoy or Joyce. All said, I think today's paperback writers are so popular because they're just good storytellers, not necessarily excellent writers of the classical styles.
