Squee!

[miss_yt]

TIME magazine has published a list of the all-time top 100 novels^*. I've read twenty of them and seen movie adaptations of four or five more.

But I was pleasantly surprised to see that Snow Crash was on the list! Woot!

EDIT: Oh, wait, make that twenty-one books. I missed Things Fall Apart on the first pass.


^*English-language from 1923 to the present, that is, which in my opinion does not merit the "all-time" description.

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[arcessita.livejournal.com]

Um, twelve. Modern lit was never really my thing. Ask me about hulking Victorian romances, though, and we might be getting somewhere.

Personally, I'm convinced they cropped it at 1923 just so they wouldn't have to think about Joyce. ;)

(Quick Wikipedia check to make sure I'm right...yep, Ulysses: 1922.)

[miss-yt.livejournal.com]

I have a confession to make: I read seven of those twenty-one books for school assignments. One was in sixth grade, a couple were summer reading, and the rest, I think, were for my 11th-grade Humanities class.. That's not to say I didn't enjoy most of them. Also, I only read part of The French Lieutenant's Woman.

I haven't read Ulysses and can't say whether it deserves a place on the list or not. But a truly comprehensive list of English-language books would probably include the following:

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen

Great Expectations, and possibly some other things, by Charles Dickens

The Moonstone and maybe The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. At least The Moonstone should be in there. Although it was serialized first and later collected into a novel.

Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

I am probably missing a few, but I think those would be on a list without the cutoff date.

[thewakinglife.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'm an English major and I've only read 8 of those books. One of my favorite books of all time is Siddartha which is excluded because it was published in 1922 and originally written in German. Still... definitely one of the 100 all-time top novels.
Ummm... hi, by the way. I'm from transmet. You'd asked about showing Transmet to your grandfather, so I thought I'd drop by your LJ. Thanks again for the icon usage!

[thewakinglife.livejournal.com]

oops... and there I went spelling the community's user name incorrectly... transmetro.