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06-25-2003, 03:57 PM
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| FORT Fogey Join Date: Feb 2003
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| Modern Library's 50 Best Fiction Books of the Century 1 Ulysses James Joyce 2 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 3 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 4 Lolita Vladimir Nobokov 5 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 6 The Sound & the Fury William Faulkner 7 Catch-22 Joseph Heller 8 Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler 9 Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence 10 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 11 Under the Volcano (Audio) Malcolm Lowry 12 The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler 13 1984 George Orwell 14 I, Claudius Robert Graves 15 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 16 An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser 17 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers 18 Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut 19 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 20 Native Son Richard Wright 21 Henderson the Rain King Saul Bellow 22 Appointment in Samarra John O'Hara 23 U.S.A (Trilogy) John Dos Passos 24 Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson 25 A Passage to India E.M. Forster 26 The Wings of the Dove Henry James 27 The Ambassadors Henry James 28 Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald 29 Studs Lonigan Trilogy James T. Farrell 30 The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford 31 Animal Farm George Orwell 32 The Golden Bowl Henry James 33 Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser 34 A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh 35 As I Lay Dying William Faulkner 36 All the King's Men Rovert Penn Warren 37 The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder 38 Howard's End E. M. Forster 39 Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin 40 The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene 41 Lord of the Flies William Golding 42 Deliverance James Dickey 43 A Dance to the Music of Time (series) First Movement Second Movement Third Movement Fourth Movement Anthony Powell 44 Point Counter Point Aldous Huxley 45 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway 46 The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad 47 Nostromo Joseph Conrad 48 The Rainbow D.H. Lawrence 49 Women in Love D.H. Lawrence 50 Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller |
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06-25-2003, 05:01 PM
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| FORT Regular  Join Date: May 2003 Location: in the mountains
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| Hey thanks for posting the list.... I have read a lot of them. Didn't like the Great Gatsby, but probably just because I HAD to read it for school. I'm always looking for something new to read... and now I've got a place to start. |
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06-25-2003, 05:06 PM
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 Fade to black Join Date: Mar 2003
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| Sadly, I've only read about five of these. So many books, so little time.
__________________ I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in somebody else's eyes... but why... why... why can't it be me? |
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06-25-2003, 05:25 PM
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| FORT Fogey Join Date: Feb 2003
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| Re: Modern Library's 50 Best Fiction Books of the Century I've read severalof them and the only one of them that I really didn't like was "Tender is the Night" (although I liked The Great Gatsby). If anyone wants to discuss any of these books, feel free!  1 Ulysses James Joyce 2 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 5 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 10 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 13 1984 George Orwell 14 I, Claudius Robert Graves 17 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers 18 Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut 19 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 20 Native Son Richard Wright 28 Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald 31 Animal Farm George Orwell 35 As I Lay Dying William Faulkner 39 Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin 44 Point Counter Point Aldous Huxley 50 Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller |
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06-25-2003, 06:09 PM
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| Nerds Just Wanna Have Fun  Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Where Ricky Martin Can't Find Me
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| 1984 was pretty good. I also liked Animal Farm, but i didn't read it all the way. |
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06-25-2003, 08:45 PM
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| Why Not Us?  Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Shhh it's a secret Age: 34
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| I've read only six of them, and own a couple that I have to read.
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06-25-2003, 08:47 PM
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| Fade to black Join Date: Mar 2003
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| When did they teach Red Sox fans how to read?
__________________ I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in somebody else's eyes... but why... why... why can't it be me? |
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06-25-2003, 09:33 PM
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| plaisirs volatils  Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: In a movie Age: 26
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|  I just downloaded a list last week to start reading the books. Just bought Mrs. DallowayI did Animal Farm, boredouttamind. It's very good. Anna, I thought the Modern Library's list is about 100 books? Is it about similar to the Radcliff student's list?
__________________ “In Rrrussia, vee have proverb: Only bad soliders don’t vant to be general.” Sasha Pivovarova |
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06-25-2003, 10:25 PM
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| FORT Fogey Join Date: Feb 2003
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| I honestly don't know. Most of these lists are so biased that I basically use them for book suggestions, but place my own judgment on the books. I'm not sure where I found this list. I did a metacrawler search for the Modern Library Best Books List and this is what came up... |
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06-26-2003, 05:21 AM
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| An innocent bystander  Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The mitten state
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| I can never understand what people see in Faulkner's books, I've had to read a few for school, hated them. Came back and read a couple as an adult figureing I was just to young when I read them the first time...hated them just as much. Loved Great Gatsby and Slaughter House Five.
__________________ I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise. ~Bob Seger |
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