Another Irresistible List
Posted by Joshua Claybourn on 22 October 2005 | 7 responses
Time magazine critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo have picked “the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.” Read the whole list here. Did they leave something off? Comment below.
7 Responses to “Another Irresistible List”
Hey wait, where’s the Da Vinci Code? LOL
Where’s “The Book of Virtues” on that stinkin’ list?!
First thing I notice is that Bonfire of the Vanities is not on it, which I can’t fathom for the life of me. The movie was a disaster, but the novel was brilliant. Drek like Rabbit, Run and Judy Blume are on the list, but not Tom Wolfe? Sacrilege.
Great Gatsby is overrated. Then again, I was a teen when I read it, and all great literature must knock teens into unconsciousness.
Frank Herbert’s Dune should be on the list. I was 21 when I read it.
That’s the P. K. Dick (and the Dashiell Hammett) they chose? And where’s Fear and Loathing instead of Judy Blume? I mean, really.
Judy Blume????? I think someone slipped that book in while the real authors weren’t looking.
No Lileks on the list, either.