Mike Cernovich on Twitter: "Does “A Confederacy of Dunces” capture the spirit of an age? Great American novel doesn’t mean that it’s a great book, definition is specific. The novel must capture a time and place. Hence many of my favorite books (Confederacy is up there) don’t qualify.… https://t.co/FYRVaFJ4AM"

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Does “A Confederacy of Dunces” capture the spirit of an age? Great American novel doesn’t mean that it’s a great book, definition is specific. The novel must capture a time and place. Hence many of my favorite books (Confederacy is up there) don’t qualify.https://twitter.com/TheAndrewMeyer/status/1126607181577695232 …

Andrew Meyer @TheAndrewMeyer

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Catch-22 was excellent. Would add A Confederacy of Dunces, Cannery Row, and The Rum Diaries. I think graphic novels also deserve mention, many of our best writers use the medium now. Y: The Last Man, Marvels, and a few others deserve to be on the list.

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1. Allyson Taft‏ @AllyTaft May 9
  
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  Gone With the Wind
  
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1. ʙᴇᴀɴɪᴇ ꜱᴀᴜɴᴅᴇʀᴢ‏ @BootyJuggs May 9
  
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1. Leave it to Creever‏ @funmilf May 9
  
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  It's one of my favorites as well, but I feel it absolutely captures the spirit of that time and place!
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1. Sean Dunagan‏ @sadunagan May 9
  
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  By that criterion: Rabbit, Run/Rabbit is Rich (capturing the spirit of their respective ages) On the Road (though it would be more accurate to say that it presaged and captured the subsequent decade) Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried (arguably not a novel)
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1. chirpichirp‏ @chirpichirp May 9
  
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  Feather in his cap, Yossarian.
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1. Gregory Briggler ‏ @brigglerintune May 9
  
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  Captures the spirit of a city in the negative.
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1. Chicalina Tanner‏ @ChicalinaT May 9
  
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  Gatsby True Grit Far and Away Seriously, the US does not have a truly epic novel
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1. Andrew Meyer ‏ @TheAndrewMeyer May 9
  
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  I think it does. The wallowing energy and nihilism of the late sixties/early 70s America is encapsulated in A Confederacy of Dunces.
  
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