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Re: Top 25 Greatest Book List

After reading many more novels, I figured I'd post my revised list.

1. Infinite Jest- David Foster Wallace
2. Catch-22- Joseph Heller
3. Ulysses- James Joyce
4. Underworld- Don DeLillo
5. The Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger
6. 1984- George Orwell
7. Gravity's Rainbow- Thomas Pynchon
8. The Pale King- David Foster Wallace
9. The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. The Sun Also Rises- Ernest Hemingway

So half of those are standard high school reading material, and the other half are sprawling postmodern epics. Seems about right.

Re: Top 25 Greatest Book List

Yeah, I think I'm about due for a revised list too.

I just finished Anna Karenina and picked up a haul of six novels from B&N and Amazon:

Philip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint
Roberto Bolano - Nazi Literature In The Americas
Don Delillo - Libra
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
Marilynne Robinson - Gilead
Steve Erickson - Amnesiascope

I was thinking of starting with Gilead and then Nazi Literature, but I'm open to other suggestions.

Anyway, my favorite books ever:

Philip Roth - The Human Stain, American Pastoral
Don Delillo = White Noise, Underground
Roberto Bolano - 2666, The Savage Detectives
George Orwell - 1984, Animal Farm
Jonathon Franzen - The Corrections
John Fowles - The French Lieutenant's Woman
Fyodor Dostoyesky - Crime and Punishment
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five

And, there are a bunch of 'canon' classics I read in high school which I didn't really get at the time because I was reading them under diress, because I was looking only for plot points, and because I had a lot of heavy biases, and I have no idea how I'd rate them reading them now in 'Enjoy' mode instead of 'Analyze' mode, so I'll leave them out.

Honorable mention for best comedy book ever:
Jon Stewart - America The Book

Re: Top 25 Greatest Book List

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