Just that list is enough to give you hope.
Just that list is enough to give you hope.
I don't really understand why some people are getting so bent out of shape over this list. Of course everyone isn't going to agree on best authors (or books). I look at it as a starting point. There are some authors that I personally would've placed higher, or lower, but there are also some that I'm not familiar with. Looking forward to checking them out and see if I like them as well.
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So glad to see Dostoevsky, Dickens and Tolstoy where they are. And Jane Austen's my second favourite author but I think it's hilarious that she's in sixth place. Captain Wentworth anyone?
Took my batteries out my mysticism and put em in my thinking cap
The first five should be:
1. Homer
2. Virgil
3. Dante
4. Cervantes
5. Shakespeare
It seems to me that we can debate about the order but I don't see others in the top five :P
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot
No Sophocles??? All Top 100 lists are bogus.
Why the need to rate people at all?
What about Cocteau and Gide? Noone's mentioned them, if I'm not mistaken.
This essentially is a highest voted list but still a very nice ranking.
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