i'm so happy to see Murakami on the list. though i also want to see Confucius there, he's real great too.
i'm so happy to see Murakami on the list. though i also want to see Confucius there, he's real great too.
Actually such lists are made under some criterion which may vary from organization to organization. Therefore, people, sometimes, don't agree with such ranking. To me the list is nice giving every writer his or her right place.
Minor cardiac event seeing Shaekspeare at #2. But, this explains. Steinbeck at #5, and Chaucer at #90 or so. This is a joke, right?
The list isn't exactly the same as my personal list would be, four authors are off by one place, two by two places and one even by four places! Why, I ask you, is that author off by four places? This list is absurd, ridiculous and a joke! What kind of illiterate idiot would make such a list?!
If you believe even a half of this post, you are severely mistaken.
some of it is opinion, but some ratings are factually accurate. Rating Shakespeare #1 by any standard of rational judgment, and, ommitting second rate literary pretenders such as Steinbeck off of a list of top #100 books where inclusion of such jeopardizes credibility of the entire list. If you see such a list and Steinbeck at #5, what are you to make of the list, and who it was that voted on it?
I already I'm going to get some pissed of American Lit major come after me for this, but does Steinbeck really deserve to be 5th on this list?
Just my opinion.
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Interesting that almost none of the most popular contemporary writers are on this list, except for Murakami.
In my view Joyce doesnt deserve to be so high.
But i am very biased, because i had only (tried to) read Ulysses, which after some chapters becomes utterly unreadable in my view
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Has anyone seen the episode of Two and a Half Men where Allen has a freak attack in the bookstore over his lack of reading of the classics...............well, I feel very much the same just now after having read the list.
Good Lord where will I find the time to whittle that list down ? And how on earth did I get to this age and not have checked off more of those names?
What a wonderful group of people I have found.
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I cannot believe Nietzsche is so far below in the list. His prose is remarkable, explosive, and it glimmers with insights into the human condition. Dickens may very well be an excellent story-teller, but I would reconsider in placing him in the top 10 authors of all time. What has his contribution been to society? A portrayal of the sordidness of industrial London?
I agree, Murakami is an innovative writer. Kafka on the Shore is one of my favorite novels even though the story is tedious in certain parts.
Furthermore, any list of literary authors sans Gabriel Garcia Marquez must have serious flaws. I suppose this list indicates the culture and exposure of its audience.
It is interesting that the vast majority of the writers in this list are either European or American. Coetzee is also deserving.
I have no blood in these veins
but words that run as coarse
and dark as when they first
encounter arteries of secrets
that burst onto this page.
****in' Dickens
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You underestimate Dickens. It was because he pointed up the sordidness of industrial life, that reforms were eventually enacted to alleviate the problem.
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I'm happy Steinbeck made it so high
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