DevelopingStorm

Thursday, November 20, 2003

I like 100 best lists. I realize its all subjective crap but they're fun. I think this reader's choice list is particularly funny because it seems to have been taken over by two different philosophies/cults: scientologists and objectivists.

I like to read and still push myself to read the classics. I have to admit though, I haven't read that many from the boards list of 100 best. Only 11 out of 100. I did better from the reader choice list, 26 out of 100.

Of all the books on the lists I was happy to see only two that I've not been able to finish. Ulysses and Gravity's Rainbow. I made it most of the way through Ulysses but haven't been able to push through to the end. I think Pynchon is just too verbose for my brain to handle. I didn't make it past the first few chapters on Gravity's Rainbow even though I've given it a couple of tries.

If you compare the lists I've already pointed out with this list from the UK you can see how wide different opinions can range. At least this one mentions Gabriel Garcia Marquez's masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude.