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I was just about to start giving out that Dickens wasn’t represented or even Don Quixote but it is the list of best novels since 1923. Ulysses was published 1922 btw.
Still, it seems some of them are there by virtue of the quality of the movie rather than ther book (thinking Deliverance specifically).
You make me blush. And also, to pull down my copy of Gore Vidal’s essays, with its equally treasured inscription from you, (“To Ask, From Embla,” how could she have known in 1978?…), wherein Mr. Vidal sticks the knife in Messrs. Barth and Pynchon. Every so often, as I discard a book, I remember his description of Barth’s books as books that were easier to write than they were to read.
I had never heard of Henry Green or Christina Stead, I must confess.
I came up with 41 I read. What about books you tried to read–Gravity’s Rainbow, Sot-Weed Factor, Infinite Jest, Tropic of Cancer. Partial credit? Even if you never intend to try to read them again?
BTW, sometimes you finish a book the second time. It took three tries for Sound and the Fury, and then I was so impressed I read it again.
Their standard for best seems to include not only the texts themselves, but their influence as well. That would explain Lord of the Rings, Gone With the Wind, and Blume’s book, which had an enormous impact on young-adult publishing. Though they really should have included “Valley of the Dolls”, on that standard. Jackie Susann, pioneer of the book tour.
Hi, Shmoo! *waves*
“easier to write than read”… heh. Ask and Embla — goodness, what was I reading at the time? Or what discussions had we been having!
Yes, I suppose influence would merit inclusion of those questionable ones… but kind of an odd consideration in a general list as there are so many that could then be argued for on the basis of a broad definition of influence…
A list of the 100 most influential books would be interesting however!
I have to laugh at your ‘tried to read’ category — I think most of your selection would go on mine, too. But I liked The Sound and the Fury first time at it, but it definitely needs re-reading. Then there are the ‘read one, not the other’ category — eg I loved Anna Karenina, yet never could get into War and Peace. Love Ulysses, despite its difficulty as the book goes on, but never could handle Finnegans Wake.