Re: Top 100 Novels... the Final Accounting

On May 11, 10:53 am, M C Hamster <davol...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Sun, 11 May 2008 14:50:06 GMT, "Lesmond" <lesm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >On Sun, 11 May 2008 06:53:04 -0700 (PDT), schreuder.est...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>On 10 mei, 00:11, "Lesmond" <lesm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>> On 9 May 2008 16:24:01 -0500, M C Hamster wrote:
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> >>> >Due to Robert Schreuder's extensive posted reading list (were this
not
> >>> >an exhibition but a competition, he'd have blown us all away),
there
> >>> >are now just two books that have not been read by any of us,
> >>> >Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson and White Teeth by Zadie Smith.
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> >>> >Lesmond, I hope that you're not too distressed that Robert has read
> >>> >Infinite Jest.
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> >>> Can he tell me if it's worth it?
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> >>It is *definitely* not worth the time/trouble.
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> >Oh, great.  But I guess I'll keep at it as long as it interests me. 
And then
> >when I start getting really sick of it, I'll see how much I've read and
> >decide to keep plugging along anyway.
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> >  I usually finish every
> >>book I read (Two books in the list of 100 I could not finish are the
> >>golden notebook and lord of the rings).
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> Was it harder than Gravity's Rainbow?  Oh, wait, you didn't read that
> one.  It sounds like it might be rather like that book, which I've
> read several times, each time with scant comprehension.
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> >I almost always finish reading what I start.  I'll see how I do. 
Wow...it's
> >like being in college again!
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> It can't be any harder than quitting smoking.  (You DID successfully
> quit, right?)
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> I was surprised about "The Golden Notebook".  We have an ancient copy
> sitting on our bookshelves, and my wife claims it was a kind of
> feminist rite of passage in the 60s to read it and love it and talk
> about it.  But I think there were three readers of it here, and all
> were men... yes, they were Pierre, Paul M, and bill van.
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> I'm tempted to read it, since it's right here, and it's another one I
> can check off the list.  But now I'm seriously concerned.


I dunno. Robert also said "Lord of the Rings" was another he couldn't
finish, so I don't have a good sense of what he considers unreadable,
compared to my tastes (since I've read Lord of the Rings several times
and had no problems fini****ng it each time.)


V.
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Veronique Chez Sheep