Re: Top 100 Novels... the Final Accounting

On Mon, 12 May 2008 00:58:57 -0700 (PDT), robertschreuder@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>On 11 mei, 19:59, Veronique <veroniqueuni...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> 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.)
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>> V.
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>> Veronique Chez Sheep
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>It is too long ago (at least 30 years). I do not remember precisely
>what went wrong: I do remember that Lessing irritated me,
>and  I was some 100 pages into the Lord (<-- not The Lord)
>when I gave up. A recent book that I just barely managed to finish is
>"House of leaves" (by Danielweski). 

Now, except for the physical awkwardness of reading it, I loved "House of
Leaves".

While having a look at my books I
>noticed (again) that I have surprisingly few book written by women:
>most are detective/suspense books, but I have some books by Anne
>Tyler, Annie Proulx, and probably some others.
>Less than 5% of my books have female authors. Makes me wonder:
> a) why  , b) how this is with other people who are interested in
>literature.

Pretty much the same with me.  I read very few female authors.

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