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(Somebody's) List of Best novels of all time

Posted on 02/17/2006 8:31:22 AM PST by Borges

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To: nopardons

I don't know about the worst but it certainly is not one of my favorite I think even Hard Times is better.


181 posted on 02/17/2006 9:04:31 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: nopardons

Most welcome. Two more I left off my list are "All the Kings Men" and "The Godfather"


182 posted on 02/17/2006 9:08:31 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

There is a little irony far you. Not only did he write a couple but they are still widely read and still highly enjoyable.


183 posted on 02/17/2006 9:10:21 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

Someday my house will be found collapsed upon me from the weight of books within. A glorious demise to be sure.


184 posted on 02/17/2006 9:12:07 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: Aliska

Oh, you MUST read "DANIEL DERONDA"; it's wonderful!


185 posted on 02/17/2006 9:26:38 PM PST by nopardons
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To: justshutupandtakeit
Oh yes, HARD TIMES is better!

TPP is unreadable and I adore Dickens; even when he is being nasty about Americans...which is a bit annoying.

186 posted on 02/17/2006 9:28:23 PM PST by nopardons
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To: justshutupandtakeit

Both good books.


187 posted on 02/17/2006 9:29:01 PM PST by nopardons
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To: justshutupandtakeit

I may just give you a run for the money, on that. LOL


188 posted on 02/17/2006 9:30:03 PM PST by nopardons
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To: justshutupandtakeit

You are right - a glorious demise indeed!


189 posted on 02/17/2006 9:38:14 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Borges

4. In Search of Lost Time - Proust

Somebody is a subliterate. Proust's novel is a direct translation from Shakespeare.

Therefore, "Rememberance Of Things Past."

Hilarious.


190 posted on 02/17/2006 9:59:15 PM PST by Sam Hill
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To: justshutupandtakeit
The irony goes deeper. Any list that includes Ulysses near the top but nothing from S. L. Clemens is just intellectual posturing. As Clemens himself said, "I like a thin book because it will steady a table, a leather volume because it will strop a razor, and a heavy book because it can be thrown at a cat."
191 posted on 02/18/2006 4:26:52 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake But Accurate, Experts Say.')
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To: Borges

"Chekhov invented the modern short story (and modern drama)! Not Katherine Mansfield, not Hemmingway...but the man from Russia."

LOL

Don't tell Edgar Allan Poe.


192 posted on 02/18/2006 8:34:20 AM PST by Sam Hill
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To: nopardons
DANIEL DERONDA

I think I had it in paperback once, maybe will try it again. It started with gambling which is not my thing.

My book(s) of Chekhov short stories are sitting there, read one all the way through, couple out of the new one, and the timing is not right.

Now I have three books from the library about politics I'm trying to get through that I should have read around election time. Slow going but interesting.

I'm far away, but Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard" is playing in Orange County now.

193 posted on 02/18/2006 9:13:39 AM PST by Aliska
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To: Sam Hill
The modern short story. Poe can be said to have invented the short story period.
194 posted on 02/18/2006 4:14:53 PM PST by Borges
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To: justshutupandtakeit

The Puzo was really something of a hack novel. He was a greast storyteller but not a great writer. It's one of those cases where the movie improved on the book.


195 posted on 02/18/2006 4:16:17 PM PST by Borges
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Huckleberry Finn is on there.


196 posted on 02/18/2006 4:18:54 PM PST by Borges
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To: Sam Hill

The literal translation is 'In Search of List Time'. The Shakesperian title was used upon its first English translation by Moncrfieff. It's lovely but not accurate.


197 posted on 02/18/2006 4:20:15 PM PST by Borges
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To: Cyclopean Squid

Proust is required reading anyway since the book is referenced by so many. To see what is going on might be near impossible without reading the whole thing six pages a day for a few years to the end because the secret is at the end but won't mean anything without the rest. It certainly helps to read some of Proust's sources.


198 posted on 02/18/2006 4:26:00 PM PST by RightWhale (pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
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To: RightWhale

Well, the complete novel is sitting on my bookshelf. As I've said, maybe one day I'll undertake it again. He sure had a problem with run-on sentences, however.


199 posted on 02/18/2006 4:42:44 PM PST by Cyclopean Squid (History is a work in progress)
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To: Borges

You're right. Moncrieff was in contact with Proust, and I thought Proust had approved this. (It was the third English translation, as you know.)

But apparently I misremembered and it was just the opposite, and Proust felt it missed the mark as well.

Memory is a funny thing. I need a madeleine.


200 posted on 02/18/2006 6:22:09 PM PST by Sam Hill
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