Another best novels list

[joeallonby]

The Ayn Rand, Stephen King. and Tom Clancy stuff is bad enough. BUT L. RON
HUBBARD????

on 9/13/04 5:56 PM, Joel Katz at mittelwerk at hotmail.com wrote:

> word to the wise:  women who peg ayn rand as their favorite author are
> generally insecure about their intelligence and trying to impress.  for this
> reason, they're relatively easy to seduce, and THEY DO ANYTHING.
> 
> 
> 
>> From: MalignD at aol.com
>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Subject: Another best novels list
>> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:35:47 -0400
>> 
>> Found this on the Gaddis list.  Bit of an odd list indeed ...
>> 
>> Charles de Lint?
>> 
>> As voted by readers, apparently. In which R places 61st. A bit of an odd
>> list, but at least Gaddis makes in it. But 61st?
>> 
>> From Random House)
>> 
>> 1.      ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
>> 2.        THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
>> 3.        BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
>> 4.        THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
>> 5.        TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
>> 6.        1984 by George Orwell
>> 7.        ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
>> 8.        WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand
>> 9.        MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
>> 10.        FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard
>> 11.        ULYSSES by James Joyce
>> 12.        CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
>> 13.        THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
>> 14.        DUNE by Frank Herbert
>> 15.        THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein
>> 16.        STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein
>> 17.        A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute
>> 18.        BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
>> 19.        THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
>> 20.        ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
>> 21.        GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon
>> 22.        THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
>> 23.        SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
>> 24.        GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell
>> 25.        LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
>> 26.        SHANE by Jack Schaefer
>> 27.        TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute
>> 28.        A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving
>> 29.        THE STAND by Stephen King
>> 30.        THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN by John Fowles
>> 31.        BELOVED by Toni Morrison
>> 32.        THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison
>> 33.        THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
>> 34.        LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
>> 35.        MOONHEART by Charles de Lint
>> 36.        ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner
>> 37.        OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
>> 38.        WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor
>> 39.        UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
>> 40.        FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies
>> 41.        SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint
>> 42.        ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
>> 43.        HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
>> 44.        YARROW by Charles de Lint
>> 45.        AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft
>> 46.        ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane
>> 47.        MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lint
>> 48.        TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
>> 49.        THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
>> 50.        TRADER by Charles de Lint
>> 51.        THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
>> 52.        THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
>> 53.        THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood
>> 54.        BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy
>> 55.        A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
>> 56.        ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute
>> 57.        A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
>> 58.        GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint
>> 59.        ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card
>> 60.        THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint
>> 61.        THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis
>> 62.        STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein
>> 63.        THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
>> 64.        THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
>> 65.        SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
>> 66.        THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson
>> 67.        AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
>> 68.        TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
>> 69.        INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
>> 70.        THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling
>> 71.        THE MAGUS by John Fowles
>> 72.        THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein
>> 73.        ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig
>> 74.        I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
>> 75.        THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
>> 76.        AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien
>> 77.        FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
>> 78.        ARROWSMITH by Sinclair Lewis
>> 79.        WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams
>> 80.        NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burroughs
>> 81.        THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy
>> 82.        GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton
>> 83.        THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein
>> 84.        IT by Stephen King
>> 85.        V. by Thomas Pynchon
>> 86.        DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein
>> 87.        CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein
>> 88.        BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
>> 89.        LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
>> 90.        ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey
>> 91.        A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
>> 92.        THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
>> 93.        SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey
>> 94.        MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
>> 95.        MULENGRO by Charles de Lint
>> 96.        SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy
>> 97.        MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock
>> 98.        ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach
>> 99.        THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies
>> 100.       THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie
>> 
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