The 100 Best Novels?
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» chuckn - Hi, Robert! But ... I wouldn't include any of YOUR selections
Hi, Robert!But ... I wouldn't include any of YOUR selections on MY list! Okay ... maybe Lolita ....
Pure hype -- these top 100 lists. They're there merely to make you think and become furious -- which is good, actually.
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My list would include 100 Years of Solitude, Marquez -- and my surprise pick: Ask The Dust by John Fante.
-- posted by chuckn
» RobertP_2 - In an article I wrote for G21 (www.g21.net), I comment on the di
In an article I wrote for G21 (www.g21.net), I comment on the disclosure by The Washington Post that the list was essentially a fraud. The panelists chose from a list of 400-plus books supplied by Random House/Modern Library and didn't rank any of the titles chosen.Christopher Cerf, who ran the panel, gleefully confessed that it was a scam, but pointed to the powerful sales figures for many of the Modern Library titles that made the top 10.
Anything that persuades people to read is good, even if it's proven to be phony.
Robert Powers
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» RickR - Robert,<br> Just for fun I compiled my own list, but didn't lim
Robert,Just for fun I compiled my own list, but didn't limit it to English. Curiously, the only coincidence in my list and theirs was Lolita. Fitzgerald made the list but for This Side of Paradise. The only other English language book to make it was Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five. The winner? La Route des Flandres (The Flanders Road) by Claude Simon.
Rick
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