Miscellaneous book trivia and stuff (2 Viewers)

[Scientician 0.8]

The 100 best novels written in English: the full list | Books | The Guardian

19/100


hooo boy that's pretty bad

I've only read 10 of them. Totes awks.

 

[Lili Marlene]

If anyone feels like spending a fortune on a coffee-table art book my brother did illustrations in this, it's BEAUTIFUL

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[David Kronenbourg]

Ugh

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[7 - No tomorrow]

If anyone feels like spending a fortune on a coffee-table art book my brother did illustrations in this, it's BEAUTIFUL

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Your name is DuBois?

very cool.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Ugh

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Ha, gas. Revelling in his own ignorance, there's no helping some people. How much money would something like this make the Guardian as clickbait? Seriously, I have no idea.

Your name is DuBois?

very cool.

nah

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Ugh

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Well, he's not, is he?

He wrote popular fiction.

Are the writers of Friends geniuses?

 

[Lili Marlene]

Well, he's not, is he?

He wrote popular fiction.

Are the writers of Friends geniuses?

I'd say he was. His work was and is deep, involving and far reaching in scope, ambition and thought. There was also a lot of it, some was better than others.

Depends on your definition of genius of course.

and your definition of literature.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Depends on your definition of genius of course.

and your definition of literature.

Exactly

I stopped reading him after those fucking gnome books.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Exactly

I stopped reading him after those fucking gnome books.

in 1990? Christ, he had barely started at that point...

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

in 1990? Christ, he had barely started at that point...

Yeah, about then.
I think I got as far as Witches Abroad or Small Gods.

I think maybe the Neil Gaiman book was the last thing I read by him.

Long time ago now.

I kind of 'got it' and was ready for different things.

 

[Lili Marlene]

You gave it a decent run, a few of the early ones are fairly ropey imho, but he got way, way better.

There's a whole load I haven't read myself, I'm slowly catching up on them.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I probably don't want to admit that it was partly not wanting to tell friends who were working through the great American novels that I was reading books about fucking gnomes.

I remember reading Bonfire of the Vanities at that time and deciding that it was far more my speed entirely.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

The 100 best novels written in English: the full list | Books | The Guardian

19/100


hooo boy that's pretty bad

17

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

20

That's pretty shabby

You lot have years to catch up

 

[David Kronenbourg]

There's a few on there that I started and gave up on. I'm terrible for that

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Also, if they've made a movie of it and I've seen it, I'm never reading that book.

 

[Lili Marlene]

The 100 best novels in English? Irish writers and critics have their say

a wide range of responses to it including several people outraged that novels that weren't written in English weren't included

their stock photo of Julian Gough is mental

 

[dudley]

I've only read 10 of them. Totes awks.

I got 9, though there may have been more from Leaving Cert times etc. but can't remember for the life of me

 

[nooleen]

Ugh

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"there, that's 500 words.

invoice attached etc."

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

How many books in the canon and what are they?