Literary Snobs

Description: There's a time and a place for badly-written populist mind-candy. This is neither. It is, however, the place to appreciate good writing - both past and present, genre or non-genre. No deathless prose, no cardboard characters, no idiot plots. The good stuff. Such as Lawrence Durrell, John Fowles, Anthony Burgess, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Graham Greene...

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Created: Oct 13, 2008 by iansales; Language: English

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SNOB TV, Part 2 73guido47, Yesterday 11:25pmignore
Do you keep a book journal? 7ctpete, Yesterday 5:28pmignore
Interviews/Features on Writers 2: Now with 30% more quiddity! 29kswolff, Yesterday 5:01pmignore
What are you reading NOW November 09? 121chamberk, Yesterday 4:39pmignore
Film Snobs 5--The Cinephiles Strike Back! 115kswolff, Yesterday 2:31pmignore
Before There Was Sesame Street, There Was . . . 11DeusExLibrus, Yesterday 5:25amignore
Book Hauls 149bobmcconnaughey, Friday 11:07pmignore
Tom Clancy's new digs: $12 million+ condo 5DeusExLibrus, Friday 3:16pmignore
Things that make you go "Hmmm...." (A catch-all thread for subjects/topics/articles of interest to 103mathgirl40, Friday 10:48amignore
Book burning, it's not just for 1930s Germans any more ... 81Third_cheek, Friday 10:23amignore
Noting Passings and Obits 2 11CliffBurns, Monday 8:39amignore
Science books for the non-specialist 11Mr.Durick, Sunday 9:10pmignore
Personal Message Board (II) 62inaudible, November 12ignore
Help save Baltimore's reputation! 15cndkey, November 10ignore
Alternative to Twilight? 43mathgirl40, November 10ignore
The Savage Detectives 72kswolff, November 10ignore
Heil Heidegger! 36Existanai, November 4ignore
E-readers: Yes or No 146Sutpen, November 4ignore
New Yann Martel book--Any LIFE OF PI fans here? 7emaestra, November 3ignore
Political and religious rants...Excoriating the right and left (and keeping it out of other threads 30kswolff, November 3ignore
Venting...the "I Hate James Patterson" et all thread 62CliffBurns, November 1ignore
More modern music. part 2 168kswolff, October 30ignore
It Was Forty Years Ago Today... 10bobmcconnaughey, October 30ignore
What are you reading NOW? October, 2009 139kswolff, October 30ignore
Dan Brown's latest attempt at grammar and narrative 115kswolff, October 22ignore
Internet for Smarties: Interesting sites on diverse topics/subjects 11CliffBurns, October 22ignore
Best Books on CD 22Osbaldistone, October 20ignore
Before 5Osbaldistone, October 15ignore
Henry James-- which to choose? 12geneven, October 14ignore
Interviews/Features on writers and literature 262CliffBurns, October 14ignore
What do you need to read to consider yourself 'well read'? 201semckibbin, October 13ignore
At 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, and Beyond 38SilverTome, October 11ignore
2666 8inaudible, October 10ignore
Unreliable narration 92kswolff, October 4ignore
Where do you read book reviews? 37semckibbin, October 2ignore
What Are You Reading , September 2009 ? 214anna_in_pdx, October 1ignore
New to Group-- reading Sister Carrie 8kswolff, September 27ignore
Ayn Rand Character Flow-chart 78CliffBurns, September 24ignore
Harold Bloom: Pro on con? 152kswolff, September 19ignore
Elizabeth Bishop, anyone? 10coffee.is.yum, September 18ignore
Four Days With the Taliban 18kswolff, September 14ignore
Film Snobs 4: Snob vs. Mecha-snob 310kswolff, September 14ignore
Personal message board 333CliffBurns, September 14ignore
What is "genius?" 39kswolff, September 13ignore
Authors Should Be Seen and Not Heard 149kswolff, September 6ignore
Is There Any Media Criticism That Isn’t Suicidal? 37Irieisa, September 5ignore
Difficult Novels 2: This time ... it's personal! 22bobmcconnaughey, September 4ignore
August 2009 Reading 106CliffBurns, August 31ignore
Dancing with the literary stars 22holcombjmarie, August 29ignore
a challenge 66kswolff, August 29ignore
Why do you read in public? 58inaudible, August 26ignore
V. and the Savage Detectives 14CliffBurns, August 24ignore
People Who Believe Books are a Waste of Time and Money 300holcombjmarie, August 24ignore
Create a literary ice cream 30geneg, August 19ignore
Giving bad writers a kick, Part II: The Kickening 215ajsomerset, August 16ignore
The World Digital Library 20kswolff, August 15ignore
Playlist for a high time 13bobmcconnaughey, August 12ignore
Burroughs/Naked Lunch? 3kswolff, August 12ignore
Bad Writers III: Getting their kicks on Route 666 4GeoffWyss, August 3ignore
test  15bobmcconnaughey, August 2ignore
Audiobooks 41ajsomerset, July 30ignore
July 2009 reading 132Medellia, July 28ignore
Is reading a luxury...or a necessity? 39geneg, July 21ignore
2009 Bulwer--Lytton Award Winners 6inaudible, July 9ignore
New books or old? 44Irieisa, July 8ignore
Literary Tattoos 14polutropon, July 6ignore
Fast Food Fiction at the Library 28inaudible, July 2ignore
June 2009 reading 155holcombjmarie, July 2ignore
Why don't men read novels? 89kswolff, July 1ignore
What's becoming of our book culture? 127kswolff, July 1ignore
Rhetorical Bastardization 94anna_in_pdx, June 29ignore
Portrait of a Lady 20geneg, June 27ignore
The Post That Changed LibraryThing Forever 21Sandydog1, June 26ignore
Writers with no style 151ejj1955, June 23ignore
That 10% 81benjclark, June 22ignore
J. G. Ballard Dead 31Irieisa, June 21ignore
Can someone write too well? 60semckibbin, June 20ignore
Film Snobs 3: Attack of the 50 Ft Snob 232CliffBurns, June 17ignore
Happy Bloomsday 12desultory, June 16ignore
Is spelling ded? 118iansales, June 14ignore
preferred beverage while reading? 77amaranthic, June 12ignore
Non-war war books 15snickersnee, June 12ignore
Cicero - where should I start? 25LizzieD, June 12ignore
Question 47geneg, June 11ignore
How/where do you buy books? 132wildbill, June 10ignore
The next Twilight? That's what she said. 31kswolff, June 7ignore
Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers series 20kswolff, June 5ignore
just a modern music FYI 300bobmcconnaughey, June 4ignore
Imre Kertész 7inaudible, June 3ignore
Know what I hate? 22kswolff, June 3ignore
Which Kafka Next? 30kswolff, May 31ignore
Ayn Rand on Writing Fiction 27kswolff, May 30ignore
Metaphorological 117kswolff, May 28ignore
I have been caught in a real ? on LT. 1guido47, May 21ignore
Forgotten Masterpieces 60Grammath, May 13ignore
On hole-y plots 2CliffBurns, May 10ignore
Most popular among the least populist 52ejj1955, May 6ignore
Small Beer Press $1.00 sale 1bobmcconnaughey, May 2ignore
Facebook "Well Read" Meme 13semckibbin, April 24ignore
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