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Yes, but another writer i read in high school who just knocked me out was theodore dreiser. i read an american tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - i locked myself in my room. now that was antithetical to every other book i was reading at the time because dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.
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Joan Didion
Yes, but another writer i read in high school who just knocked me out was theodore dreiser. i read an american tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - i locked myself in my room. now that was antithetical to every other book i was reading at the time because dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.
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