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Literature Map | posted by Jean Looking to expand your reading list? You might want to check out Literature Map. Enter the name of a writer you like, and it will splay out other writers that readers of your writer read. Frankly, I'm not sure what criteria they're basing their selections on. Some of the writers I entered are: Tim O'Brien, William Shakespeare, Graham Greene, and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Even putting Anne Rice and Michael Crichton on the same screen as William Shakespeare makes me vomit a little in my mouth. It's true, I'm a snob. Hey, nothing really against Crichton or Rice, except as far as actual prose goes, they're shit. Same with JK Rowling, and I like the Potter books. And what the hell is Maya Angelou doing hovering right next to Dante? Anthony Bourdain on the same planet as Laura Ingalls Wilder? Don't get me wrong, I love Anthony Bourdain. Graham Greene yielded some pretty good results. So you might get a kick out of this, if for no other reason than to exclaim, what are they thinking?! And while you're at it, go read some Graham Greene.
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