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Originally Posted by Istvan diVega
Of course not; no such book exists. To even suggest that it does is frankly pretty stupid.
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I agree that
Middlemarch is quite good and also agree that, objectively, no best novel exists. However, there's nothing wrong with an intelligent enthusiast saying
Middlemarch is the best, as
here and
here.
I'm going to say that the greatest one-volume biography is
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. Every time I start a biography, I hope it will let me know its subject the way Robert Caro let me know Robert Moses, and they all fall short. My judgment here is highly subjective and based on partial information, but most literary judgments are like that. If you had to prove that a book was good, you could never recommend anything.