my response:
Faulkner: amazing
Melville: Moby Dick/Pierre/Billy Budd great (the rest ok)
Hemingway: fantastic
Vonnigut: meh
Salinger: ick
Steinbeck: some stuff great other stuff meh
Fitzgerald: I so want to like him but meh
Sinclair Lewis: boring and overrated
Twain: ok

i agree. i read it when i was 19 and it just didn't seem that big of a deal to me. especially not compared with some of the other things i was reading at the time (thoreau among them)

Whoa - you need to add: (at least)
Don't shoot me I'm only the piano player
Captain Fantastic
Honky Chateau

Great Interview
Refreshing to have someone tell stories rather than just plug something