The 100 Greatest Books of All Time - 30-21!
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2024
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Starting off with an oddity? Hell, most of the list has been an oddity to me. LOL
A Tuesday treat!!
I can't express how thrilled I am to see Ó Cadhain's masterpiece make this list!
Dearest Steve,So enthralled to see Mairtin O Cadhain (Marteen O'Kine..gaelic pronunciation) land here in your esteemed list..Wonderful.!..
This series has been great!
Froissart?! That’s one I was not expecting to see in this list!
I can't believe Bunnicula made your top 20.
i read Graveyard Clay, i liked it a lot, and of course Wuthering Heights is amazing.
I’ve never been able to get beyond the first few chapters of Graveyard Clay because it is so funny! I’m crying with laughter, snorting, and grabbing anyone close to me and making them read it. It’s exhausting. Must persevere.
Can’t wait to see the next 20 my TBR grows
I liked Sarah Ruden's translation of The Golden Ass more than Robert Graves'.
Me too!
Haha you weren't catching me out with that Irish trick, well not twice anyway
Steve, as far as I know, there was never an 8 million views Q&A. Did you skip this milestone on purpose?
Many great translated works from different cultures. Have you read The Shahnameh?
Love your take on Wuthering Heights. But, er, Vanity Fair? I could do a top 10 of Victorian works you have led me to and Thackeray wouldn't be on it.
But, fine, you're the "professional book critic" and I'm "President of the Dan Brown Fan Club."
Agreed re. Vanity Fair. A very good novel, undoubtedly, but I think Steve has been trained to esteem it more highly than it deserves.
VF is a masterpiece. A groundbreaking work which changed the nature of the novel. you can see its’ echo in everything from “war and peace” to “Gone with the wind”
@@Tolstoy111 It reads like Breakfast at Tiffany's Lite. Not a single likable character and gossip was the main form of communication.
I will try again one day. Thackeray is my greatest disappointment of supposedly great Victorian writers.
Middlemarch and Wuthering Heights are on here and I have passionate positive feelings for both. Hardy, Dickens, Wharton even Wilkie Collins but bletch VF rubbed the wrong way
@@RyanLisbon You don't have to like the characters. VF is an acerbic social satire. And the panorama is vast.
Middlemarch just didn’t work for me.