tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4818215410689699213.post3416572093219529136..comments2024-03-28T23:29:38.623-04:00Comments on Shelf Actualization: The Modern Library List- By the NumbersMacEvoy DeMaresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01017894338443984921noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4818215410689699213.post-50067808965469101862011-12-02T09:56:03.951-05:002011-12-02T09:56:03.951-05:00I'd say that Paton's Cry, The Beloved Coun...I'd say that Paton's Cry, The Beloved Country deserves to be in the conversation for last century. I absolutely loved that book.<br /><br />But what's Coetzee accomplished? Only two Bookers and a Nobel? Pfft!MacEvoyhttp://www.shelfactualization.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4818215410689699213.post-40753029494900812242011-12-02T09:30:43.134-05:002011-12-02T09:30:43.134-05:00Thanks for the stats, MacEvoy.
South Africa, whil...Thanks for the stats, MacEvoy.<br /><br />South Africa, while sadly short of twentieth century stalwarts has my favorite current writer: J.M. Coetzee.<br /><br />Look out twenty-first century list!Orlandohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12570303484329212847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4818215410689699213.post-66512362569368120642011-11-30T22:50:05.250-05:002011-11-30T22:50:05.250-05:00Wow, this list made me go back over my reading lis...Wow, this list made me go back over my reading list of classic I wanted to read. I am sadly lacking most of what they consider the top 100. Oh well, I don't regret my reading history and now I just have to add more titles to my list- DangAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13966538770293572551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4818215410689699213.post-1420794980753567412011-11-30T19:05:48.026-05:002011-11-30T19:05:48.026-05:00I have Calvino in my queue. My wife bought me &quo...I have Calvino in my queue. My wife bought me "If on a winter's night a traveler." I keep hearing good things about him/it. I need to get started on it.<br /><br />I'm currently struggling through a book a friend loaned me. It's not bad enough to quit, and not good enough to be a page turner.Alan Macfarlanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08186417916581133897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4818215410689699213.post-82174213637958886412011-11-30T13:15:34.438-05:002011-11-30T13:15:34.438-05:00Hey, I read "Around the World in 80 Days"...Hey, I read "Around the World in 80 Days" last year, and I'm about to launch into Baum's "Life and Adventures of Santa Claus" for Christmas. Nothing wrong with those authors.<br /><br />And I'm with you on cultural impact. Italo Calvino said "A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say." I'm all about lyrical beauty in the things I read, but I think I could agree with that definition.MacEvoyhttp://www.shelfactulaization.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4818215410689699213.post-78106930286220781292011-11-30T13:02:21.924-05:002011-11-30T13:02:21.924-05:00Interesting numbers. Again, it helps give a place ...Interesting numbers. Again, it helps give a place to start (and increases the place to end).<br /><br />When I look at which lit to pick up, I like starting with the ones that made the biggest dents in "our" culture. That drove most of why I read any of the Harry Potters.<br /><br />Can a reference be made to something about a book by people who have never read it? How many people know who Sherlock Holmes is, or about Tom Sawyer and the whitewashed fence without having read those books? <br /><br />Movies and other media do a lot to drive these things, but as a bit of a pop culture nut, I love reading the books that are part of the western conscious. Sometimes that's more important to me than reading something well written. I'm interested in the lit that left a mark on everyone, not just academia. Maybe I should try more Joyce and less Jules Verne or L. Frank Baum.<br /><br />Anyway, I'm digging the site so far. Keep it up.Alan Macfarlanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08186417916581133897noreply@blogger.com