Estella
All-Time 100 Greatest Novels, have you read any? In year 2006, two critics of Time magazine had selected 100 best English language novels from 1923 to the present. http://wapedia.mobi/en/All-Time_100_Greatest_Novels What I have finished (mostly not in the original) are as follows: Animal Farm, The Blind Assassin, Catch-22, The Golden Notebook , Gone With the Wind, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Gatsby, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Herzog, Light in August, Lord of the Flies, Naked Lunch,Mrs. Dalloway, 1984, On the Road, A Passage to India, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Sun Also Rises, The Sound and the Fury, To the Lighthouse ,White Teeth. Some of the names actually seem unknown to me, for example, Jean Rhys. Personally I prefer William Faulkner's style though his works in general are not regarded as easy reads. Lately finished with The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. What about you?
Dec 7, 2008 3:18 PM
Answers · 4
Dear Das andere, thank you so much for sharing this great link with us. I have checked the link. And we can almost read every book of the top 100 from that link. And I have read some classic novels before. But it seems rereading some of them will be very interesting. Thank you for sharing this link. xie xie.
December 8, 2008
the Great Gatsby, i only read that,,, but i ever read far from the madding crowd and mill on the floss, read it!!!
December 8, 2008
Oh, well, this made me feel a bit late... I've read only "A clockwork orange", "Gone with the wind", "The Lord of the Rings" and "To kill a mockingbird" (I'm now reading this last one)! All I can say is many of them is the number of those I've planned to read; I'm very attracted by "The heart is a lonely hunter" for it was mentioned in a very beautiful movie I saw sometimes ago – "A love song for Bobby Long". :)
December 7, 2008
I've read Animal Farm-Catcher in the Rye-A Clockwork Orange-The Great Gatsby-The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe-The Lord of the Rings-1984-Slaughterhouse Five and To Kill a Mockingbird 9/100 Perhaps its time to start reading more.
December 7, 2008
Still haven’t found your answers?
Write down your questions and let the native speakers help you!