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ALL-TIME 15 NOVELS
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:41 pm |
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Quoting AllTooHuman: 2. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
10. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
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Yes yes  and Bram Stoker's Dracula.. wonderful 
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:44 pm |
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Quoting aenigma x: This is so hard, but have made an attempt to select my favourite 15:-
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
Emma - Jane Austin
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Expery
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
I, Claudius - Robert Graves |
appears you have given the Biritish writers preferential treatment.
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:45 pm |
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Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
it was my term work in prep class in high school... we used to watch its movie together with my family
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:47 pm |
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Quoting AllTooHuman:
appears you have given the Biritish writers preferential treatment. |
I disagree - 9 of the 15 is not bad, considering I am British
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:49 pm |
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Quoting aenigma x: Quoting Elisa:
Ohhhh, mr Darcy....    |
"IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
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Hehehe... with reference to this point, my favourite opening sentence is placed in Anna Karenina:
"All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:51 pm |
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Quoting aenigma x: Quoting AllTooHuman:
appears you have given the Biritish writers preferential treatment. |
I disagree - 9 of the 15 is not bad, considering I am British |
well.. accepted... be it so... 
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:51 pm |
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Quoting AllTooHuman: Well... Here are my first and second top fifteen list according to the two slightly different definitions of novel.
novel: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
1. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
2. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
3. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
4. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
5. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
6. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
7. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
8. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
9. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
10. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
11. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
12. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
13. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
14. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
15. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
novel: an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story
1. Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
2. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (Ah, my dear Jan Valjean!...)
3. The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
4. Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
5. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway
6. The Metamorphosis - Kafka
7. The Trial - Kafka
8. War and Peace - Tolstoy
9. Ulysses - James Joyce
10. Frankenstein - Marry Shelley
11. Search of Lost Time (whole series) - Marcel Proust
12. The Iron Heel - Jack London
13. Modam Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
14. The Grapes of Wratf - John Steinbeck
15. Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov |
..appears you have not listed a single novelist from your OWN country
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:52 pm |
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One of the most human books I ever read: "The Book of the Dun Cow" by Walter Wangerin. And maybe "Waterbabies" by Charles Kingsley... Now I am becoming sentimental... it's the fault of the man in yellow coat...
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:56 pm |
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Quoting aenigma x: Quoting AllTooHuman: Well... Here are my first and second top fifteen list according to the two slightly different definitions of novel.
novel: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
1. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
2. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
3. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
4. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
5. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
6. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
7. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
8. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
9. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
10. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
11. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
12. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
13. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
14. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
15. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
novel: an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story
1. Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
2. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (Ah, my dear Jan Valjean!...)
3. The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
4. Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
5. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway
6. The Metamorphosis - Kafka
7. The Trial - Kafka
8. War and Peace - Tolstoy
9. Ulysses - James Joyce
10. Frankenstein - Marry Shelley
11. Search of Lost Time (whole series) - Marcel Proust
12. The Iron Heel - Jack London
13. Modam Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
14. The Grapes of Wratf - John Steinbeck
15. Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov |
..appears you have not listed a single novelist from your OWN country |
Because, I am and must be, unlike you, objective. I don't see any Turkish novel among any top-fifteen-list. As back as 120 years or so our own novel tradition goes.
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 08:01 pm |
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Quoting AllTooHuman: Because, I am and must be, unlike you, objective. I don't see any Turkish novel among any top-fifteen-list. As back as 120 years or so our own novel tradition goes. |
Piff! How can you decide that my list was not objective. It most certainly was!! You imagined that the majority of my list were British authors when in fact only 9 of 15 were. What next will you accuse me of - bad detective work ....??
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 08:04 pm |
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AllTooGoodDetectiveWork, Aenigma... Like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle... Do you like Sherlock Holmes, by the way?
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