Top Ten without Stendahl

[charles f albert]

It was not intended as slight or insult, though I will admit to not being 
very enthused about Tolstoy.
Thematically it would be nearly a perfect fit......and it certainly ranks 
as a "classic"...but for my finely honed francophobia
I might rank it in my top 15....

and with that, allow me:

I cannot chose a favorite between my top two choices

COL49
Pale Fire

GR
The Man Who Was Thursday - Chesterton
A Hero of Our Time - Lermontov
V
Crime&Punishment or Brothers K
Messiah of Stockholm - Ozick

Quo Vadis - Sienkiewicz
Warlock





QV winds up displacing Sirens of Titan........

Close calls

A Cool Million- West
The Throwback - Sharp
I Claudius - Graves

(Goodbye to all That is easily top three for non-fiction - and I highly 
recommend  it to anyone who has not read it)

Novel with Cocaine - Anonymous (highly recommended)
Red Dragon - Harris
Old Town- Nicholai Leskov
Any highly selective anthology of Ambrose Bierce
Joseph Conrad - Pick 'em......



love,
cfa







At 04:49 AM 9/17/2004, you wrote:
>CFA wrote:
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>"Given these rankings, shouldn't Stendahl's The Red and The Black be in
>your top ten?
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>If not, could you tell us why?"
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>Simple really - I haven't read it even once, let alone twice.
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>Now can you tell me why, 'given these rankings', you expected it to be
>listed?
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>Just curious
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>JC
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