I was reading about Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (via Wikipedia's Fatal hilarity page - don't ask) and I stumbled across Time's All Time 100 Novels.
This was an exciting event as many of the novels on this list are amongst my favourites: The Sun Also Rises, Pale Fire, Gravity's Rainbow, Neuromancer, The Great Gatsby, Lord of the Flies and Beloved to name but a few. (Some didn't make it of course, but what good is a list in which you can't pick holes?)
There are plenty that I haven't read too, so I suppose this means my TBR pile is going to grow a tad taller. Oh poor me.
I just finished GoodFellas by Nicholas Pileggi - an interesting and satisfying read. Not sure what I'll pick up next.
Friday, May 16, 2008
100 Novels
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6 comments:
So many books, so little time!
Have a good weekend:-)
Oh but I'm so tempted to ask why you were reading about fatal hilarity!
I better avoid that list for my wallet's sake. My tbr pile is threatening to topple over and crush me as it is. ;)
I love book lists, lots of my favourites on there too.
I've already been on Amazon today! No more!
Lane, you too!
Angie, really. You DON'T want to know. ;)
M&T, ahh book lists. We really are a bunch of group nerds aren't we?
Helen, Amazon is the devil!
That's actually quite a decent list - it's always nice to see White Noise get in there ahead of Underworld as the DeLillo contribution!
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