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Poll Question: Who's better: Christopher Moore or Carl Hiaasen?
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I browsed through the one about the whale, it was worse than Moby Dick. Thumbs Down
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Points: 20623 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 01 2016 at 12:11
No vote...never read anything by either man......not much on 'humor authors'...but perhaps it's time to ck them out. I'm not getting any younger.
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It's generally accepted that the greatest humor novelists of our age are Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett - both English and both deceased.  But who's the best of the still-living American humor novelists?  Here are two contenders who I enjoy greatly.

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