Time's Top 100 Novels 1923-present

AEPhiSierra · #1 09-26-2006, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by KLPDaisy

Read all of those. I really loved Things Fall Apart and Slaughterhouse Five. I'm a big fan of Vonnegut's, but personally, Galapagos is my favorite of his works. Like Buttonz and everyone else said, I'm surprised that Brave New World didn't make the list. Also, I was kind of expecting to see Kafka's Metamorphosis or Camus's The Stranger somewhere on the list.

I am also suprised about a Brave New World.

The Stranger was originally in french so that's why it was left off the list. I am guessing Metamorphosis is also a translated work.

tunatartare · #2 09-26-2006, 03:21 PM

good call

orighu · #3 09-28-2006, 07:20 PM

do movies count?

seriously, I have read a few of those - others are on my list to read that I should have read when i was younger (I just finshed Go Tell it on the Mountain w/in the last week).

I can't believe White Teeth was on there - I i wouldn't consider that a great novel - when clearly others were left off the list (Sula by Toni Morrison), but glad to see Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret on there - I LOVED that book! Judy Blume was just the best back then.