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TIME Magazine picks 100 Best Novels, 1923-Present
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http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html TIME book critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to the present of 2006. A good list with some traditionals(ALL THE KING'S MEN, THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, CATCH-22, ON THE ROAD) and some alternatives that truely do deserve their place on this Greatest List(NAKED LUNCH, WATCHMEN(yes, the Alan Moore masterpiece graphic novel), even the cyberpunk sci-fi classics of SNOW CRASH and NEUROMANCER). Check out the list: A - B The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren American Pastoral Philip Roth An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser Animal Farm George Orwell Appointment in Samarra John O'Hara Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Judy Blume The Assistant Bernard Malamud At Swim-Two-Birds Flann O'Brien Atonement Ian McEwan Beloved Toni Morrison The Berlin Stories Christopher Isherwood The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder C - D Call It Sleep Henry Roth Catch-22 Joseph Heller The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron The Corrections Jonathan Franzen The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell The Day of the Locust Nathanael West Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather A Death in the Family James Agee The Death of the Heart Elizabeth Bowen Deliverance James Dickey Dog Soldiers Robert Stone F - G Falconer John Cheever The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald H - I A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene Herzog Saul Bellow Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson A House for Mr. Biswas V.S. Naipaul I, Claudius Robert Graves Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace Invisible Man Ralph Ellison L - N Light in August William Faulkner The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Lord of the Flies William Golding The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien Loving Henry Green Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis The Man Who Loved Children Christina Stead Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie Money Martin Amis The Moviegoer Walker Percy Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf Naked Lunch William Burroughs Native Son Richard Wright Neuromancer William Gibson Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 1984 George Orwell O - R On the Road Jack Kerouac One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey The Painted Bird Jerzy Kosinski Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov A Passage to India E.M. Forster Play It As It Lays Joan Didion Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth Possession A.S. Byatt The Power and the Glory Graham Greene The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark Rabbit, Run John Updike Ragtime E.L. Doctorow The Recognitions William Gaddis Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett Revolutionary Road Richard Yates S - T The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut Snow Crash Neal Stephenson The Sot-Weed Factor John Barth The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner The Sportswriter Richard Ford The Spy Who Came in From the Cold John le Carre The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller U - W Ubik Philip K. Dick Under the Net Iris Murdoch Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry Watchmen Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons White Noise Don DeLillo White Teeth Zadie Smith Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys Thoughts? Opinions? Criticisms?
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Re: TIME Magazine picks 100 Best Novels, 1923-Present
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04/21/06 06:15 AM
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Thanks a lot MistaMista! Only took me what, let's see, 5 years more or less!lol!
Yeah, 1923 was what, 83 years ago? How old is TIME magazine? Why is the 83rd anniversary of any thing important and why for this list?
Thanks again, MistaMista Tom Hagen.
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Re: TIME Magazine picks 100 Best Novels, 1923-Present
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The Great Gatsby, that I've read. In high school, but I did read it. The Watchmen? No, can't say as I have. However my to read list is very long.
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Re: TIME Magazine picks 100 Best Novels, 1923-Present
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For some reason, The Great Gatsby gets all the attention. I mean, other books by Fitzgerald are SO much better. The Beautiful and Damned beats The Great Gatsby
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Re: TIME Magazine picks 100 Best Novels, 1923-Present
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04/21/06 10:41 AM
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Originally posted by Don Andrew:
...alot of filler (Fontane/Lucy). Not to mention Sonny  !! Apple
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Re: TIME Magazine picks 100 Best Novels, 1923-Present
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Books I've read:
Animal Farm
George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
1984
George Orwell
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
I'm an English Major, what do you expect? :p
Books that are not on there making this list horrible:
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
Hunter S. Thompson
Hell's Angels
Hunter S. Thompson
The Old Man and the Sea
Hemingway
Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac
Requiem For A Dream
Hubert Selby Jr.
Home to Harlem
Claude McKay
Tar Baby
Toni Morrison
The list has a few good ones, but not enough to be considered a good list.
And you liar, teller of tall tales: you trample all the Lord's commandments underfoot, you murder, steal, commit adultery, and afterward break into tears, beat your breast, take down your guitar and turn sin into a song. Shrewd devil, you know very well that God pardons singers no matter what they do, because he can simply die for a song.
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Re: TIME Magazine picks 100 Best Novels, 1923-Present
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Right here, but I'd rather be ...
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Ferro has basically summed up my feelings as to what should've made the list. :p In about fifty years time (if not sooner) people will recognize at least half of those books as absolute brilliance. And maybe some Palahniuk too.  Animal Farm was good... 1984 was great. But, I don't consider Animal Farm to be top 100. 1984 deserves more notice than it recieves though.
"Somebody told me when the bomb hits, everybody in a two mile radius will be instantly sublimated, but if you lay face down on the ground for some time, avoiding the residual ripples of heat, you might survive, permanently fucked up and twisted like you're always underwater refracted. But if you do go gas, there's nothing you can do if the air that was once you is mingled and mashed with the kicked up molecules of the enemy's former body. Big-kid-tested, motherf--ker approved."
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Re: TIME Magazine picks 100 Best Novels, 1923-Present
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04/24/06 08:31 PM
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Animal Farm
George Orwell
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1984
George Orwell
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
the ones I've read.
Madness! Madness!
- Major Clipton
The Bridge On The River Kwai
GOLD - GOLD - GOLD - GOLD. Bright and Yellow, Hard and Cold, Molten, Graven, Hammered, Rolled, Hard to Get and Light to Hold; Stolen, Borrowed, Squandered - Doled.
- Greed
Nothing Is Written
Lawrence Of Arabia
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