Saturday, August 9, 2014

A List Of 100 Best Novels In English

From Counterpunch.  Not a perfect list, with some glaring omissions and odd ranking, but there are some phenomenal choices, and certainly the proscription against the execrable David Foster Wallace and the hacktacular Jonathan Franzen was a huge benefit.  As long as you get the number one correct, you're off to a good start, but the trite claim that the Wake is somehow impenetrable on every conceivable level is inexcusable and boring.

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