100 more books you will shortly be seeing in a meme

[andrewducker]

Although this isn't a meme, it's more of a sigh of happiness at feeling somewhat more mainstream.

Time magazine has put out a list of The 100 best English-language books from 1923 to the present.

Which includes a fair number of books I like:

Animal Farm, Catch 22, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Lord of the Flies, Lord of the Rings, Neuromancer, Slaughterhouse Five, Snow Crash, etc.

And Watchmen.

Which just gives me the warm fuzzies :->

Now - off to the pub quiz, where dalglir, dalglivk and purelyskindeep will undoubtably work with me to lose terribly.

Comments

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I was pleased, surprised, and impressed to see Watchmen on the list. In contrast, I was baffled to see Snow Crash there, I've never seen why anyone finds that book anything more than trite and mildly amusing. Despite having read literally thousands of novels, I've only read 7 works on that list.

[pickwick.livejournal.com]

I love Snow Crash, but on the other hand I think Slaughterhouse Five is vastly over-rated. Each to their own, I guess...

(Except everyone loves Watchmen.)

[ex-sarnath969.livejournal.com]

I have a hard time believing Philip Roth wrote four of the best 100 books in the last 82 years.

[andrewducker]

I've not read that many either. But then mimetic fiction hasn't drawn me in that much. I recognise numerous of the names on there, and I keep meaning to read some Pynchon, for instance, but haven't got around to it.

[andrewducker]

American Pastoral is the only one of his I can see on the list.

[ex-sarnath969.livejournal.com]

Portnoy's Complaint is on there, too. I thought there was another, but it's one by Henry Roth.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

One book meme, comin' right up.

[dalglir.livejournal.com]

W00T!

We lost terribly!

:-D

[xquiq.livejournal.com]

It's certainly an interesting list, although I was surprised to find that I've only read 14 of them.

It was good to see a nod to books like 'Neuromancer' and 'Snow Crash', since I think genre novels are often unfairly overlooked.

There were a couple of surprises though: 'Gone With the Wind' and 'On The Road' among them, neither of which I would rate as 'great' novels (in fact I actively disliked 'On The Road' and found it difficult to get through it).