Here's times list of the best books of all time. How many have you read? What are your favorites?
http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html
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Ummm... not only is "Ulysses" not on this list, but nothing by Joyce is. Yeah, because "On the Road" is clearly a better-written novel.
This is almost too subjective to take seriously.
I have read forty of these books... that equals... about forty percent. And hardly ANY Of them would i consider among my favorite books. I love these:
Wide Sargasso Sea, Under the Volcano, To the Lighthouse, Naked Lunch, Lolita.
And i enjoy some of the other ones. But mostly i consider these books very overrated.
Walead, I wondered the same thing (WHAT THE FUCK? WHERE THE FUCK IS ULYSSES?!?). But the list is from 1923 to the present, and Ulysses came out in 1921. Why they chose 1923 is unclear to me.
I'm only at 27. Some of my favorites include: A Catcher in the Rye, Day of the Locust, Lolita, Portnoy's Complaint, Slaughterhouse-Five, the Sound and the Fury, the Sun Also Rises, and Under the Volcano.
And I'm wondering where "Grendel" is.
Like so many of these lists, it appears to rely heavily on "importance" or impact rather than quality, which maybe makes sense because importance/impact can be gauged more objectively, while quality is much more subjective. Therefore, the title should be "100 Most Important Books," not "best."
Walead (and sarah), you should put up a little picture of yourself in blogger! i hear what you're saying whenever you write a comment, but when Sam, Tina, or I (even Saffie) it's nice to see a little pic! :)
i mean come on, look at how PRETTY juancy is in that little pic!! Looking up into the sky all hopeful-like. Or is that fear?
Don't you want to have something like that? Dontcha?
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