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Originally posted by schweigi
So if there is no 20 century in it ... where is Schiller???
It looks like he's here:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/famousSearch.cgi?mode=cemetery&FScemeteryid=639198

Or isn't that what you meant? 😉

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Originally posted by jgvaccaro
Hm... I went to the Times webpage to get more info on the list, but it turns out that to view it I have to subscribe to the online Times for 40 pounds (!!!) a year....
Rather fortunately I registered when it was free, before they introduced the £40(!!!) charge.

I can't see anywhere which explicitly states the method used (probably because it doesn't really matter since its only a bit of fun), but it does seem like a pretty conscious decision to exclude 20th Century works.

The only thing I can find is a quite interesting article by Sebastian Faulks (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5601-576675,00.html - not sure if that link will work). Alternatively try http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,5562,00.html - not wholly convinced that link will work either.

I'm not saying it's the "best classic" by any means (I wouldn't really know to be honest) but many a fine hour has been spent lying on a picnic rug with the girlfriend reading P&P to each other. Doesn't get much better than that 🙂

T1000

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Mark-- the first link worked, and the article was very interesting. Thanks!


Actually I think "an old book that still has a market" is about as good a definition of a classic as we can get, unsatisfactory though it is.

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sorry, but any list that doesn't include "the cat in the hat" by Dr. Seuss is obviously written by the intelegencia mafia

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Originally posted by belgianfreak
sorry, but any list that doesn't include "the cat in the hat" by Dr. Seuss is obviously written by the intelegencia mafia
One fish, red fish, two fish, blue fish...

"Hop on Pop" was a classic though.

How about we start a 20th century list?

I nominate "Of Mice and Men". But, I am partial to Steinbeck.

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I second Of Mice and Men (great book!) and would humbly add Creation by Vidal and Lord of the Flies by Golding

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Have any one of you read the "Left Behind Series by Tim Lahaye and Jerry B Jenkins?

Of course, these are not classics yet, but might become. I just started to 9th book, these are very addictive!

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I want James Joyce Ulysses on the list ... someone mentioned it already ...

Moreover:

ooh ... are german or austrian authors ... I have to look for the titles in English first

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Here are 30 of my favourite books from the 20th Century:-

Kingsley Amis – Lucky Jim
Albert Camus – The Outsider
Raymond Carver – Where I’m Calling From
Joseph Conrad – The Secret Agent
Daphne du Maurier – Rebecca
John Fante – Ask The Dust
Sebastian Faulkes - Birdsong
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
William Golding – Lord of the Flies
David Guterson – Snow Falling on Cedars
Joseph Heller – Catch 22
Ernest Hemingway – For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms
John Irving – The World According to Garp
Kazuo Ishiguro – Remains of the Day
Ken Kesey – One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Milan Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Ian McEwan – The Innocent
Walter Mosely – Devil in a Blue Dress
Vladimir Nabokov - Pnin
George Orwell – 1984
Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children
J.D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye
Jose Saramago – Blindness, All the Names
Jean-Paul Sartre - Nausea
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn – One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men
Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse Five
Richard Yates – Revolution Road

😀

Dave

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Originally posted by Bobla45
Would John LeCarre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy be considered a classic? It is my all time favorite read.
Yeah i read that a while ago, good book. I'm about to start the second one "Smiley's people", which I've been told is good too.


Incidently, "Green Eggs and Ham" is better than the "The Cat in the Hat".

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