Happy 10th anniversary to The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time. Don't even think about writing one of the 100 greatest novels of all time; they've already been written.
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The Frito Pundito
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No Pynchon there; not even in the list of names they left off. Can't take it seriously.
Oh, I agree about Pynchon. And, while I dearly love As I Lay Dying, even Faulkner would not have put it on a list of the hundred best.
Nor is there any mention of Richard Powers, a considerable lapse. Nor of Nathanael West. Nor of John Gardner. No Andre Malraux. No Jorge Amado. And how could a British publication ignore The Horse's Mouth?
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No Pynchon there; not even in the list of names they left off. Can't take it seriously.
Twelve and six halves. These lists always make me feel unedumacated.
I have seen 14 of them as movies.
Oh, I agree about Pynchon. And, while I dearly love As I Lay Dying, even Faulkner would not have put it on a list of the hundred best.
Nor is there any mention of Richard Powers, a considerable lapse. Nor of Nathanael West. Nor of John Gardner. No Andre Malraux. No Jorge Amado. And how could a British publication ignore The Horse's Mouth?
A very quirky list, it seems.
Dang. And I just put a book out.
Hit the enter button too soon.
Twenty. Most under duress as a student, but Three Men In A Boat was (and remains) a positive delight.
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