Miscellaneous book trivia and stuff (1 Viewer)

[Lili Marlene]

How many books in the canon and what are they?

There is no answer to either of those questions but here's a lengthy list by Harold Bloom, who is still probably the biggest defender of the very idea canon-forming

HAROLD BLOOM'S THEOCRATIC CANON

you'll be quizzed about it at the end of term.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

There is no answer to either of those questions but here's a lengthy list by Harold Bloom, who is still probably the biggest defender of the very idea canon-forming

HAROLD BLOOM'S THEOCRATIC CANON

you'll be quizzed about it at the end of term.

Fuck that guy

 

[St. Fechin]

There is no answer to either of those questions but here's a lengthy list by Harold Bloom, who is still probably the biggest defender of the very idea canon-forming

HAROLD BLOOM'S THEOCRATIC CANON

you'll be quizzed about it at the end of term.

Bloom has since disowned that list, saying it was put together under pressure from the publisher and done hurriedly.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Maybe I'll just stick with the great American novels

 

[Lili Marlene]

Bloom has since disowned that list, saying it was put together under pressure from the publisher and done hurriedly.

Oh hai lurker, be that as it may I'm sure if he made a new list it'd have about 95% crossover, maybe 5% less women. Come on like, "Actually, Shakespeare is out"

Bloom:The list was not my idea. It was the idea of the publisher, the editor, and my agents. I fought it. I finally gave up. I hated it. I did it off the top of my head. I left out a lot of things that should be there and I probably put in a couple of things that I now would like to kick out. I kept it out of the Italian and the Swedish translations, but it’s in all the other translations—about 15 or 18 of them. I’m sick of the whole thing. All over the world, including here, people reviewed and attacked the list and didn’t read the book. So let’s agree right now, my dear. We will not mention the list.

meh

 

[St. Fechin]

The point is, he didn't want a list.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Save it for the Harold Bloom in context thread, the point is the list exists and is a pretty good list to help answer the original question.

 

[St. Fechin]

Save it for the Harold Bloom in context thread, the point is the list exists and is a pretty good list to help answer the original question.

You're just butthurt 'cos you linked to an obsolete list without realizing.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Yes, yes, very good. Now either provide a different, author-approved list or get back under your rock.

 

[St. Fechin]

From Bloom? The table of contents from that book should do it.
NO LISTS.

 

[Lili Marlene]

How many books in the canon and what are they?

The Western Canon

NOT A LIST

 

[St. Fechin]

...by Harold Bloom

 

[St. Fechin]

"Hey, at least I answered the question."

 

[pete]

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

19/100


hooo boy that's pretty bad

One.

The Grapes of Wrath. Because I had to, in school.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

So I'm still winning this at 24 books read?

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

So I'm still winning this at 24 books read?

Seems like it, doc

 

[nooleen]

i've read all 100 books



...of my own list that i pulled out of my arse

 

[Lili Marlene]

heh, i like this response

On the Pleasures of Not Reading

I have for many years now actively enjoyed not reading Charles Bukowski. I want to say with conviction that Bukowski is not so much a voice from hell as a voice from Hell-Lite™, a kind of flimsy, adolescent imitation of true misanthropy—but I have no evidence to furnish in my case against him. How could I? I’ve never read him. All I know is that I’ve listened to a tepid Modest Mouse song about him; I have spoken to a stranger at a bar who told me she’d “snort his words off the page,” if she could; and I’ve sneered at the cover of Ham on Rye in a Park Slope Barnes and Noble. If you asked me to mount a cogent defense of my antipathy, I’d have to say something pretentious like “I find his role in the culture banal.”

 

[nooleen]

"insane hubris"

 

[Lili Marlene]

that's me