Quote Originally Posted by SauceeMcGee
Animal Farm anyone? George Orwell?!?

Great book, terrible film
Orwell was English, actually, not American.

For poets, I love Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wallace Stevens, and T. S. Eliot (even though I disagreed with all his views, the guy was something).

Prose: Herman Melville, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hemingway, etc. Give me some Poe, too.

"Catch-22" is one of the best novels I've ever read...truly powerful and hilarious at once.