10-30-2006, 04:19 AM | #1 |
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The 100 Best Novels
Not necessarily my personal favorites, but RandomHouse has a list of their and their readers' top 100 Best Novels.
http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlib...estnovels.html Excerpt... The board's top 5: 1. ULYSSES by James Joyce 2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce 4. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov 5. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley The readers' top 5: 1. ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand 2. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand 3. BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard 4. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien 5. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee |
10-30-2006, 08:24 AM | #2 | |
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10-30-2006, 10:23 AM | #3 |
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Man, there must have been some serious vote stuffing going on over there on the reader's choice list. Four Ayn Rand books in the top 10? 3 Hubbard books? This is another result that shows you online re-voteable polls are not accurate.
Of course the "experts" list reads like your typical high school/college english book list, not exactly your typical bedtime reading for the average person. |
10-30-2006, 11:02 AM | #4 | |
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11-29-2006, 12:15 AM | #5 | |
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Definitely vote stuffing. As has already been said; L. Ron's book is pushed by Scientology. Rand's followers border on cult status as well... but I actually don't mind some of the philosophy in those books... I really wouldn't say Rand's philosophy repeated in a mediocre story qualifies for much intellectual or pleasure reading. |
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11-29-2006, 11:22 AM | #6 |
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I don't remember any particular philosophy being pushed in B.F.E. -- you were talking about Rand's books, sorry.
I think it's interesting that being dead doesn't impair Hubbard's ability to write & publish new work. Oh, right, he's just "gone on to the next planet." |
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All this recent talk about Hubbard (everywhere, not here in particular) has made up my mind to read his science fiction novel called "dia"something.
Other than that, I like "top X" lists. Oftentimes there are items in them that might have escaped my attention. |
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04-23-2008, 09:16 AM | #9 |
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Not on the top 10 lists but a great book in my estimation is Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here. I remember reading it in the 1960s and then along came Richard Nixon and Watergate and I remember thinking that Lewis must have some link to the future (the book was written in the late 1930s) because the book was like a portent of Nixon.
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04-23-2008, 09:22 AM | #10 |
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04-24-2008, 05:17 PM | #11 |
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Ulysses has spent the past year in my guest bathroom. I have no desire to finish it and my guests apparently don't either. The pages look barely used.
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This listing, though... not universal enough for me. Where's Hugo, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, Cervantes,...? |
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04-25-2008, 03:53 AM | #14 | |
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It's hard to provide an objective assessment if you can't read in the original language; but the English translations of 'War and Peace' and 'Three Musketeers' I've read are both worthy of inclusion in a Best Novels list. |
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04-25-2008, 06:30 AM | #15 |
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hmm.I'd like to list the King in yellow on top places,but I have no idea if I can classify that as a Novel.
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