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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlib...estnovels.html
I've not read the vast majority of the supposed 100 best novels recommended by Modern Library.
I think it is unconscionable that Twain is not on that list.
I started reading Portrait of a Young Artist by Joyce. I really, really tried to like it. But finally I gave in to the overwhelming impression that it was pretentious bullshit.
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Naipaul's "A Bend in the River" made that list. I finished reading it about a month back. I'll post a review when I have a moment.
It's good; a little bit of a slog in the middle, but his command of language is unparalleled. I can't believe he won a Nobile Prize; not because of his quality, but because of content - his view of post-colonial Africa is very unromantic. He reads like Conrad – not very PC about native Africans.
"The world is what it is, men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."