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Ulysses by James Joyce | 8 | 36.36% | |
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie | 4 | 18.18% | |
Winnie-the-Pooh by Alan Alexander Milne | 10 | 45.45% | |
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06-23-2015, 02:48 PM | #1 |
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Run-off vote for MobileRead's best fiction book of 1921-1930
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06-24-2015, 07:01 AM | #2 |
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Paul, I think the point needs to be made that in order to vote for one of those the voter has to have read it. So, same rules apply.
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06-24-2015, 07:22 AM | #3 |
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Fair enough.
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07-04-2015, 10:28 AM | #4 |
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Anne of Green Gables, Tarzan and now Winnie-the-Pooh?
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07-04-2015, 11:02 AM | #5 |
why in?
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You should stop trembling: the fight is over, civilization lost.
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07-04-2015, 06:20 PM | #6 |
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Maybe many stopped reading when they turned six?
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07-05-2015, 01:43 AM | #7 | |
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Issybird, you have to remember that different people are using different measures for "best".
Particularly in these older decades, one of the most important factors that I used was my interpretation of how much influence a book has continued to have since it was published. Think Shakespeare. Did he do the absolute best writing of his period? I don't know, I've read almost nothing else of that time, but there is no arguing that he has had the largest ongoing influence. Another important factor, for me, is how much I want to pick up the book and read it again. Think Shakespeare again. There's a quote in the Wikipedia article: Quote:
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