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FarrahWaters · 07-16-2008, 02:44 PM

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,2020...207349,00.html

I thought it was funny to see The Road and Bridget Jones Diary on the same list.

Levin · 07-16-2008, 02:49 PM

The Road better than Into Thin Air? This list has no credibility.

SeattleUte · 07-16-2008, 03:16 PM

This may be the worst of these sorts of lists I've ever seen. And I'm a McCarthy fan. But consider the source.

Jeff Lebowski · 07-16-2008, 03:34 PM

Bel Canto and The Lovely Bones were two of the worst books I have read in the past 25 years. Yuck.

Jeff Lebowski · 07-16-2008, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Levin

The Road better than Into Thin Air? This list has no credibility.

One of the few things they got right.

Tex · 07-16-2008, 03:35 PM

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100. America (the Book), Jon Stewart/Daily Show (2004)

Seriously? A "classic"?

Coach McGuirk · 07-16-2008, 03:57 PM

They did the same thing for movies and it was the worst list of movies I have ever seen.

SeattleUte · 07-16-2008, 04:12 PM

The secret purpose of the best of these lists is not to get the right ranking, but to have a subtext, a theme.

Here is a great one from the Guardian:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/art...061083,00.html

I call it great not because I adopt the ranking. I don't. I like how it makes a statement. The subtext? Story over literary pretense. Note Joyce gets the smack down. Ulysses is obligatory, but relegated to number 45, and nothing else from Joyce. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man always shows up on these lists, but not here. Also, there's a heavy bias for novels originally written in English (of course, the Guardian is in London), despite the ironic no. 1, which no one could strongly argue against since it is likely the first Western novel ever written.

Levin · 07-16-2008, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by SeattleUte

The secret purpose of the best of these lists is not to get the right ranking, but to have a subtext, a theme.

Here is a great one from the Guardian:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/art...061083,00.html

I call it great not because I adopt the ranking. I don't. I like how it makes a statement. The subtext? Story over literary pretense. Note Joyce gets the smack down. Ulysses is obligatory, but relegated to number 45, and nothing else from Joyce. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man always shows up on these lists, but not here. Also, there's a heavy bias for novels originally written in English (of course, the Guardian is in London), despite the ironic no. 1, which no one could strongly argue against since it is likely the first Western novel ever written.

Aargh!

"27. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
The supreme novel of the married woman's passion for a younger man."

Why don't people ever talk about Levin! Seriously, Anna's descent is only used as a foil for Levin's rise! It's the title that throws people off.

Levin · 07-16-2008, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski

One of the few things they got right.

Yeah, I was just trying to tease Waters and the others around here who dislike Krakauer.

07-16-2008, 02:44 PM	#1
FarrahWaters Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,122	The New Classics? http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,2020...207349,00.html I thought it was funny to see The Road and Bridget Jones Diary on the same list.

07-16-2008, 02:49 PM	#2
Levin Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 1,484	The Road better than Into Thin Air? This list has no credibility. __________________ "Now I say that I know the meaning of my life: 'To live for God, for my soul.' And this meaning, in spite of its clearness, is mysterious and marvelous. Such is the meaning of all existence." Levin, Anna Karenina, Part 8, Chapter 12

07-16-2008, 03:16 PM	#3
SeattleUte fairlds.org Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 10,665	This may be the worst of these sorts of lists I've ever seen. And I'm a McCarthy fan. But consider the source. __________________ Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be. —Paul Auster

07-16-2008, 03:34 PM	#4
Jeff Lebowski Charon Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In the heart of darkness (Provo) Posts: 9,564	Bel Canto and The Lovely Bones were two of the worst books I have read in the past 25 years. Yuck. __________________ "... the arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice." Martin Luther King, Jr.

07-16-2008, 03:57 PM	#7
Coach McGuirk Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: The Bubble Posts: 606	They did the same thing for movies and it was the worst list of movies I have ever seen. __________________ "Hey! It's all ball bearings nowadays. Now you prepare that Fetzer valve with some 3-in-1 oil and some gauze pads. And I'm gonna need 'bout ten quarts of anti-freeze, preferably Prestone. No, no make that Quaker State. "

07-16-2008, 04:12 PM	#8
SeattleUte fairlds.org Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 10,665	The secret purpose of the best of these lists is not to get the right ranking, but to have a subtext, a theme. Here is a great one from the Guardian: http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/art...061083,00.html I call it great not because I adopt the ranking. I don't. I like how it makes a statement. The subtext? Story over literary pretense. Note Joyce gets the smack down. Ulysses is obligatory, but relegated to number 45, and nothing else from Joyce. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man always shows up on these lists, but not here. Also, there's a heavy bias for novels originally written in English (of course, the Guardian is in London), despite the ironic no. 1, which no one could strongly argue against since it is likely the first Western novel ever written. __________________ Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be. —Paul Auster Last edited by SeattleUte; 07-16-2008 at 04:15 PM.