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ihrocks
10-13-2003, 07:50 AM
For anyone interested, The Guardian has posted it's list of the Top 100 Novels of All Time.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1061037,00.html

Let the disagreements commence.

ihrocks
den
10-13-2003, 08:32 AM
Mmmmm yummy, thanks ih... have to check that out. I'll be back. :P
AbdoRinbo
10-13-2003, 11:23 AM
First list I've seen where Ulysses was anywhere below #10 (in fact, it's #45).

That whole list blows if you ask me.
Jay
10-14-2003, 04:00 AM
Hey, The Cather in the Rye on 61th place? It's a nice book...
Shea
10-14-2003, 09:38 AM
I enjoyed Don Quixote very much, but I don't understand why it's at the top. I can't beleive that they put Charolotte's Web above Lord of the Rings!!
Jay
10-14-2003, 10:00 AM
So it seems we're generally going to agree, the list sucks ;)
AbdoRinbo
10-14-2003, 01:23 PM
Fo sho.
Vronaqueen
10-14-2003, 01:40 PM
I couldn't believe they thought collections of short stories were to be considered novels--you'd think they'd know the difference.

And isn't Ian McEwan's Atonement a littl modern to be beating out some of the great books on this list, it only came out 2 years ago, if that.
Koa
10-15-2003, 04:27 PM
I'd put 1984 and 100 years of solitude a bit higher in the list?
And where's Crime and Punishment???
And 'The periodic Table' by Primo Levi...Well might be Ok but he wrote much better and much more important stuff.
Dick Diver
10-16-2003, 06:40 PM
The books were in chronological order.
AbdoRinbo
10-16-2003, 10:22 PM
That's the dumbest idea for a list I've ever heard. Chronological order?

Who cares about a list of dates?
Jay
10-17-2003, 05:01 AM
Yeah, I'd be looking for the list in order from the best to the... less good ;).
Koa
10-17-2003, 06:32 AM
The books were in chronological order.

Ah lol...not a top 100 thingy... Just a list of best stuff...uhm... silly me... ?
Jay
10-17-2003, 05:09 PM
Ah lol...not a top 100 thingy... Just a list of best stuff...uhm... silly me... ?
Might be just me, but it still sounds the same to me... top 100 and best stuff... you know what I mean?
den
10-17-2003, 07:28 PM
Well... I can't check the thingy anymore `cause you have to sign in and I can't be bothered... did anyone copy and paste it? I'd like to seee again.

As for the books being in chronological order, that seems alright. As a historian I have a value on seeing information displayed this way.