Time's top 100 novels

[Doggiedog]

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[Armitage]

I think I've read about 17 of those - obviously not all of them made an impression.

Can't believe Snow Crash is on there. It was ok, but I didn't see anything groundbreaking. Cryptinomicon was much better.

 

[Anubis]

why oh why is Beloved on there, it was absolutly horrid

ive read about 20 of them, at least 5 of them sucked ass

 

[mundane]

Originally posted by: Armitage
I think I've read about 17 of those - obviously not all of them made an impression.

Can't believe Snow Crash is on there. It was ok, but I didn't see anything groundbreaking. Cryptinomicon was much better.

Blasphemy! Well, I guess that the cyberpunk genre was defined earlier by Neuromancer.

 

[tfinch2]

I've only read about 7, how pitiful

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: Anubis
why oh why is Beloved on there, it was absolutly horrid

Agree completely - had a college prof who was apparently a dues paying member of the Toni Morrison fan club.

 

[meltdown75]

holy crap The Big Sleep was first published in 1939?!! :shocked:

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: diegoalcatraz

Originally posted by: Armitage
I think I've read about 17 of those - obviously not all of them made an impression.

Can't believe Snow Crash is on there. It was ok, but I didn't see anything groundbreaking. Cryptinomicon was much better.

Blasphemy! Well, I guess that the cyberpunk genre was defined earlier by Neuromancer.

Yep - I was glad to see Neuromancer on there. In some ways I kind of saw Snow Crash as a caricature of cyberpunk.

 

[iamwiz82]

I've read 2

Though I have seen many of the movies

 

[dawnbug]

I've read seven of them... Beloved wasn't great enough to be on a top 100 list, but it wasn't horrible. I read The Color Purple right around the same time and I actually liked that better.

 

[state 08]

Why isn't Ender's Game on it?!

 

[dainthomas]

Good call not ranking them. That just pisses people off.

Glad Tolkien and Lewis were on there. Thought Foundation should be also.

 

[ATLien247]

I've read two of those... LOTR and Snow Crash.

I'll eventually get around to reading Neuromancer and 1984, but the rest of that list doesn't look too appealing.

Not to be ignorant, but why are all these considered "top" novels? Should I feel bad that I haven't read 98% of them?

 

[Schadenfroh]

I have only read 4 of those for fun. 5 if you include the 1 i was forced to read.

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: dainthomas
Good call not ranking them. That just pisses people off.

Glad Tolkien and Lewis were on there. Thought Foundation should be also.

The SciFi grandmasters are notably absent. Nothing by Clarke, Asimov, Bradbury, etc.

 

[Kenazo]

Originally posted by: Armitage

Originally posted by: dainthomas
Good call not ranking them. That just pisses people off.

Glad Tolkien and Lewis were on there. Thought Foundation should be also.

The SciFi grandmasters are notably absent. Nothing by Clarke, Asimov, Bradbury, etc.

I guess the compilers of the list figured those ones were a little too popular.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Armitage

Originally posted by: dainthomas
Good call not ranking them. That just pisses people off.

Glad Tolkien and Lewis were on there. Thought Foundation should be also.

The SciFi grandmasters are notably absent. Nothing by Clarke, Asimov, Bradbury, etc.

yea wheres 2001 and Dune

 

[Leper Messiah]

No stephen king...hm I've read about 15 of those books. Most of them were not that great. Esp. To Kill A Mockingbird. Someone explain why this book is so renowned?

Yeah, and at least one Dune book. Cmon.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Originally posted by: Kenazo

Originally posted by: Armitage

Originally posted by: dainthomas
Good call not ranking them. That just pisses people off.

Glad Tolkien and Lewis were on there. Thought Foundation should be also.

The SciFi grandmasters are notably absent. Nothing by Clarke, Asimov, Bradbury, etc.

I guess the compilers of the list figured those ones were a little too popular.

Moreso than the Lord of the Rings? I don't think you can get more popular than that in sci-fi/fantasy, especially right now. Well maybe with Harry Potter but there's no way they would put one of them on there.

It is kind of strange that some of those were absent. Fahrenheit 451 I figured would've made it on there at least.

 

[yllus]

Animal Farm, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Lord of the Flies, The Lord of the Rings, Midnight's Children, 1984.

I've read six out of their one hundred. Time to throw some on my library reserve list.

 

[Leper Messiah]

Originally posted by: yllus
Animal Farm, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Lord of the Flies, The Lord of the Rings, Midnight's Children, 1984.

I've read six out of their one hundred. Time to throw some on my library reserve list.

You've never read to kill a mocking bird? how did you escape high school with this feat?

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Leper Messiah

Originally posted by: yllus
Animal Farm, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Lord of the Flies, The Lord of the Rings, Midnight's Children, 1984.

I've read six out of their one hundred. Time to throw some on my library reserve list.

You've never read to kill a mocking bird? how did you escape high school with this feat?

yea thats a good question, also how did you avoid The Catcher in the Rye??

those 2 are pretty much standard in HS

TKAMB was good CITR sucked ass

 

[Leper Messiah]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Leper Messiah

Originally posted by: yllus
Animal Farm, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Lord of the Flies, The Lord of the Rings, Midnight's Children, 1984.

I've read six out of their one hundred. Time to throw some on my library reserve list.

You've never read to kill a mocking bird? how did you escape high school with this feat?

yea thats a good question, also how did you avoid The Catcher in the Rye??

those 2 are pretty much standard in HS

TKAMB was good CITR sucked ass

I thought Catcher in the Rye was pretty funny. To Kill A Mockingbird was just kinda sappy.

 

[MagicConch]

A 100 best novel list is so weirdly pretentious.

 

[Al Neri]

ive read, or was supposed to have read (read the book notes and discussed in class ):

The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
The Great Gatsby by FS Fitzgerald
Light in August by Faulkner
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (i was about 11 when we read it tho)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird

Don't really remember The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe really.

My favorite one of the lot was Things Fall Apart... with Okonkwo the Yam farmer ... and the killing of the man who rode an iron horse and seemed to talk through his nose