Brett's comments (member since Nov 15, 2008)

Brett's comments from the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die group.

Brett wrote: "Norton Critical Editions, Viking Critical Library Editions, etc. Are annotated editions better than the MMP?"
Norton has great collection of annotated works;
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/...
MMP= Mass Market Paperback.

Norton Critical Editions, Viking Critical Library Editions, etc. Are annotated editions better than the MMP?

Just started first 60 pp. Really trippy. I'm trudging onward.

Just read a book a week and you will finish in 21 years if you hadn't read a single book from the list. Also, here is a list from The Novel 100 by Daniel S. Burt.

100 best NOVELS:
1 Don Quixote
2 War and Peace
3 Ulysses
4 In Search of Lost Time
5 The Brothers Karamazov
6 Moby-Dick
7 Madame Bovary
8 Middlemarch
9 The Magic Mountain
10 The Tale of Genji
11 Emma
12 Bleak House
13 Anna Karenina
14 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
15 Tom Jones
16 Great Expectations
17 Absalom, Absalom!
18 The Ambassadors
19 One Hundred Years of Solitude
20 The Great Gatsby
21 To the Lighthouse
22 Crime and Punishment
23 The Sound and the Fury
24 Vanity Fair
25 Invisible Man
26 Finnegans Wake
27 The Man without Qualities
28 Gravity's Rainbow
29 The Portrait of a Lady
30 Women in Love
31 The Red and the Black
32 Tristram Shandy
33 Dead Souls
34 Tess of the D'Urbervilles
35 Buddenbrooks
36 Le Pere Goriot
37 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
38 Wuthering Heights
39 The Tin Drum
40 Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
41 Pride and Prejudice
42 The Scarlet Letter
43 Fathers and Sons
44 Nostromo
45 Beloved
46 An American Tradegy
47 Lolita
48 The Golden Notebook
49 Clarissa
50 Dream of the Red Chamber
51 The Trial
52 Jane Eyre
53 The Red Badge of Courage
54 The Grapes of Wrath
55 Petersburg
56 Things Fall Apart
57 The Princess of Cleves
58 The Stranger
59 My Antonia
60 The Counterfeiters
61 The Age of Innocence
62 The Good Soldier
63 The Awakening
64 A Passage to India
65 Herzog
66 Germinal
67 Call It Sleep
68 U.S.A. Trilogy
69 Hunger
70 Berlin Alexanderplatz
71 Cities of Salt
72 The Death of Artemio Cruz
73 A Farewell to Arms
74 Brideshead Revisited
75 The Last Chronicle of Barset
76 The Pickwick Papers
77 Robinson Crusoe 338
78 The Sorrows of Young Werther
79 Candide
80 Native Son
81 Under the Volcano
82 Oblomov
83 Their Eyes Were Watching God
84 Waverley
85 Snow Country
86 Nineteen Eighty-Four
87 The Betrothed
88 The Last of the Mohicans
89 Uncle Tom's Cabin
90 Les Miserables
91 On the Road
92 Frankenstein
93 The Leopard
94 The Catcher in the Rye
95 The Woman in White 417
96 The Good Soldier Svejk
97 Dracula
98 The Three Musketeers
99 The Hound of the Baskervilles
100 Gone with the Wind

I had an *obsession* with finding THE best book for any given genre (ie horror, mystery, sci-fi, etc) a while back.

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House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson


At the Mountains of Madness - HP Lovecraft


Middlesex - Eugenides

I read the book in college. Burgess is a genius to create such a compelling piece that is ultimately about choice. The most fundamental attribute we have as human beings (animals act purely from instinct) going all the way back to Adam and Eve. Great stuff.