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Re: Team Me: Foxing around

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Re: Team Me: Foxing around

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Re: Team Me: Foxing around

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Re: Team Me: Foxing around

Postby Xmmm » Wed Dec 13, 2017 5:44 am

reineke wrote:
The Greatest Books of All Time, as Voted by 125 Famous Authors

Top Ten Authors by Points Earned
1. Leo Tolstoy – 327

2. William Shakespeare – 293

3. James Joyce – 194

4. Vladimir Nabokov – 190

5. Fyodor Dostoevsky – 177

6. William Faulkner – 173

7. Charles Dickens – 168

8. Anton Checkhov – 165

9. Gustave Flaubert – 163

10. Jane Austen – 161


Let's see how many things are wrong with this list:

1. There is only one French author ... and amazingly, it's not Dumas. Le Comte de Monte Cristo is probably the single best novel ever written, so this is a curious oversight. If people want to be pretentious snobs and pretend like Dumas doesn't exist, what about Camus? Flaubert is better? Phooey.

2. The only American author to make the list is Faulkner. Hawthorne and Melville are both better. The Scarlet Letter and Moby Dick are the classic choices for "The Great American Novel." Has anyone ever finished a book by Faulkner? Also, no sign of Mark Twain!

3. I've read most major Russian authors in translation and Tolstoy > Nabokov > Dostoevsky is a joke. There are plenty of Russian natives on this board. What do you think, guys? I would rate Russian authors as:

Dostoevsky > Bulgakov > Nabokov > Pelevin > Chekhov > Tolstoy > Solzhenitsyn (fiction only, he's the best at non-fiction)

4. James Joyce is always highly praised, but he is little read. We should stop pretending. A great author that nobody reads is not a great author, but people are afraid to say the emperor has no clothes.

5. This list is so euro-centric! Where is Yukio Mishima, for crying out loud? I'm still recovering from reading The Sea of Fertility tetralogy 34 years ago!


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Re: Team Me: Foxing around

Postby Xmmm » Wed Dec 13, 2017 6:14 am

reineke wrote:I thought I already posted this here:

The Greatest Books

"This list is generated from 114 "best of" book lists from a variety of great sources. An algorithm is used to create a master list based on how many lists a particular book appears on. Some lists count more than others. I generally trust "best of all time" lists voted by authors and experts over user-generated lists. On the lists that are actually ranked, the book that is 1st counts a lot more than the book that's 100th."

1 . Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
2 . In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
etc.


The Greatest Nonfiction Books
1 . Confessions by Augustine
2 . Essays by Michel de Montaigne
3 . The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
5 . On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
12 . The Histories of Herodotus by Herodotus
16 . Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
18 . The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
19 . The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes
23 . Das Kapital by Karl Marx
31 . Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
45 . The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

etc. Anyway, a cool resource.


In contrast to the utterly bogus list I attacked in my other post, this list looks pretty good. Where is the resource, exactly? I didn't see a link ...
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