Ive been trying to read Thackeray's The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. I have, so far, found it only slightly more entertaining than the movie.
There sure is a lot of crap and books of the day in this list. Mitch Albom. Dan Brown (OMG, What the fuck were they thinking? The writing style in this is braindead to the point of being worse than what you'd find in an average livejournal). Helen Fielding (while I have read it and enjoyed it, I think I could have lived without it). And, three Thomas Hardy books?
Of course, I've read more on this list than on their 2003 list of 100 Greatest Books of all time (http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1061037,00.html), which at least has some post-modern books on it, like if on a winter's night a traveler..., Catch-22, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman, etc.
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Date: 2007-03-05 09:11 am (UTC)There sure is a lot of crap and books of the day in this list. Mitch Albom. Dan Brown (OMG, What the fuck were they thinking? The writing style in this is braindead to the point of being worse than what you'd find in an average livejournal). Helen Fielding (while I have read it and enjoyed it, I think I could have lived without it). And, three Thomas Hardy books?
Of course, I've read more on this list than on their 2003 list of 100 Greatest Books of all time (http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1061037,00.html), which at least has some post-modern books on it, like if on a winter's night a traveler..., Catch-22, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman, etc.