tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post1004574603142519295..comments2024-01-06T10:36:04.084-05:00Comments on A Commonplace Blog: Greatest novel everD. G. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10659136455045567825noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-69996433303710611382013-06-25T00:43:27.098-04:002013-06-25T00:43:27.098-04:00Yea, Lolita is the best book ever written. I'...Yea, Lolita is the best book ever written. I'm still<br />not sure if the subject matter effected my opinion?<br />It was so easy to read. I think that says something<br />for it being "the. best book ever"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-43947679628096742192010-03-28T19:51:42.125-04:002010-03-28T19:51:42.125-04:00Here is a belated question about your list: Why ha...Here is a belated question about your list: Why have you included several "children's books"? I raise no objection. I simply wonder.R/Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07791522136032565027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-71090017087352028182009-04-29T12:15:00.000-04:002009-04-29T12:15:00.000-04:00Postscript: Please ignore the typographical errors...Postscript: Please ignore the typographical errors in the previous post. Write the errors up to my bad keyboarding skills and my haste to get everything together for my next final exam session this morning.R/Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07791522136032565027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-44930026742936884402009-04-29T11:49:00.000-04:002009-04-29T11:49:00.000-04:00Here is are several belated comments on your novel...Here is are several belated comments on your novels list: <br />(1) With time on my hands for more than six weeks this summer, since I am not teaching until the second half of the semester, I have decided that it is now a great opportunity to read novels on your list that I had either previously missed or ought to reread because too much time has passed since my earlier encounters. So, I'm off to the used bookstores to seek out titles not on my shelves.<br />(2) Why, except for reasons of convenience, have you limited your list to novels since 1850 (and since the era of Dickens and Eliot)? What other criteria helped to determine your choices? Do you contemplate backfilling the list by offering up a list from DeFoe through Dickens and Eliot?<br />(3) With that having been said, and with the allusive play on words intended, may I take a moment to "toast" you: The mentoring and sharing spirit in your blog entries is much appreciated and enjoyed. Keep up the good fight.R/Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07791522136032565027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-23942518417348388302009-03-07T21:01:00.000-05:002009-03-07T21:01:00.000-05:00Don’t you suspect that the readers’ poll was bomba...<I>Don’t you suspect that the readers’ poll was bombarded by Randniks and Hubbardheads?</I><BR/><BR/>Undoubtedly so. I wonder if J.F. Powers fanatics or Henry Jamesiacs or Stanley Elkinites have ever bombarded a poll?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-57428904972826015402009-03-07T11:48:00.000-05:002009-03-07T11:48:00.000-05:00I enjoy this list as I have your others--I had jus...I enjoy this list as I have your others--I had just read The Country of the Pointed Firs recently and agree it is very charming, if not canonical (whatever that means).<BR/><BR/>I am baffled less by Lolita than by Narnia over The Lord of the Rings.Novalishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10501890494890617030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-31612712809965649762009-03-06T21:12:00.000-05:002009-03-06T21:12:00.000-05:00Do you have a list of top Texas novels? 50 might b...Do you have a list of top Texas novels? 50 might be a big much but I would love to hear 5 or 10. Thanks for sharing.Pat Burnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04086714996345735384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-34360503447832167082009-03-06T20:30:00.000-05:002009-03-06T20:30:00.000-05:00lol. Your right about the Randniks and Hubberheads...lol. Your right about the Randniks and Hubberheads. <BR/>Although most Paulites hate L. Ron Hubbard, but they do love their Ayn.<BR/>I am surprised by no Steinbeck but i guess Grapes or Eden could be somewhere in 50-100Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-31110062737025876272009-03-06T18:57:00.000-05:002009-03-06T18:57:00.000-05:00[A]lso a curious assortment in some ways. . . .Yes...<I>[A]lso a curious assortment in some ways. . . .</I><BR/><BR/>Yes, it was more politically correct. And it included <I>Sophie’s Choice</I>, that “big, flapping turkey of a novel,” as Martin Amis aptly described it. The board of experts included Styron, by the way.<BR/><BR/>Have a good weekend, everybody!D. G. Myershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10659136455045567825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-67274550369656399442009-03-06T18:50:00.000-05:002009-03-06T18:50:00.000-05:00The Ayn Rand and L. Ron Hubbard titles appeared o...The Ayn Rand and L. Ron Hubbard titles appeared on the reader's poll list (a curious assortment), which should not be confused with the committee's list (also a curious assortment in some ways).R/Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07791522136032565027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-50518814632642808872009-03-06T18:22:00.000-05:002009-03-06T18:22:00.000-05:00They were probably even the same voters in both po...They were probably even the same voters in both polls.D. G. Myershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10659136455045567825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-49753729795255411142009-03-06T18:21:00.000-05:002009-03-06T18:21:00.000-05:00[T]he Modern Library Reader's List top ten include...<I>[T]he Modern Library Reader's List top ten includes four by Ayn Rand and three by L. Ron Hubbard.</I><BR/><BR/>Don’t you suspect that the readers’ poll was bombarded by Randniks and Hubbardheads?—just as last summer’s online polls showed Ron Paul lapping the Republican field for the presidential nomination.D. G. Myershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10659136455045567825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-74677571442569725542009-03-06T17:59:00.000-05:002009-03-06T17:59:00.000-05:00Until now it had somehow escaped my notice that th...Until now it had somehow escaped my notice that the Modern Library Reader's List top ten includes four by Ayn Rand and three by L. Ron Hubbard. Unfortunate to say the least.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-7829426466821271432009-03-06T17:49:00.000-05:002009-03-06T17:49:00.000-05:00Thank you for sharing the list, and I look forward...Thank you for sharing the list, and I look forward to seeing the second half. There is always something intensely personal and compelling about lists like yours. You have included a few titles with which I am not familiar that I will have to include on my wish-list for future reading. By the way, I am not too impressed by The Modern Library, the Radcliffe, and other similar lists because of the taint of their pretense of democratic committee decisions. I prefer the unabashed personal declarations of an individual's list. Well, you are likely to provoke some interesting reactions to some of your choices. Perhaps you will share those reactions.R/Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07791522136032565027noreply@blogger.com