09-28-2007, 12:18 PM
Perhaps I should have put this under media since it's online, but it concerns books, so I'm putting it here. Greg can move it if he is offended.
I found this on the Modern Library web site:
http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary...ovels.html
I find both lists ridiculous. The board's list starts with a book almost no one has read (or can even understand) - how can that be best? And the reader's list starts with Ayn Rand and L. Ron Hubbard!
And can we please give up on the notion that Animal Farm is a great book? It's heavy-handed propaganda and way too long; he could have done it in about 20 pages as more of a fable and it would have worked much better.
I found this on the Modern Library web site:
http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary...ovels.html
I find both lists ridiculous. The board's list starts with a book almost no one has read (or can even understand) - how can that be best? And the reader's list starts with Ayn Rand and L. Ron Hubbard!
And can we please give up on the notion that Animal Farm is a great book? It's heavy-handed propaganda and way too long; he could have done it in about 20 pages as more of a fable and it would have worked much better.
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