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http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1951793,00.html

discuss.

>> No.2155613

list is garbage, its not ordered in best to worst, nor is any information provided on how they determined that these are the best 100 book ever.

>> No.2155614
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>> No.2155618

Not much to discuss. One of the best literature tier lists.

>> No.2155623

Do you think they include things like Judy Blume sincerely, or out of some half-hearted effort to counter charges of elitism?

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>Margaret Atwood
>Ian McEwan
>no Kafka

What happened to you, TIME? You used to be cool.

>> No.2155633

>>2155613
>not ordered in best to worst
Yeah, should be very easy and relevant to do that. I bet you do it erryday on 4chan.

>how they determined
Some 'knowledgeable' guys did it. They explain it here:
http://entertainment.time.com/2005/10/16/all-time-100-novels/slide/how-we-picked-the-list/#how-we-pi
cked-the-list

And this is why user-made tiers are shit (see >>2155614 and IMDb ratings for movies), but when professionals do it, the information becomes relevant. (see Bloom's canon and Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic for movies).

>> No.2155636

>>2155632

>no Kafka

>TIME critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-Language novels from 1923 to the present

>100 best English-Language novels
>English-Language novels
>English-Language

>> No.2155637

>>2155632
>English-language
>you fucking mouthbreather

>> No.2155638

>>2155632
No Kafka because
>Critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923—the beginning of TIME.
>English-language novels
>since 1923
Yeah, I know that the title ("All-TIME 100 Novels") could be misguiding.

>> No.2155642

I gotta bone* to pick with that cueball-headed nerd Lev Grossman over some of those comic book choices

*pun not intended or relevant to beef

>> No.2155648
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sorry guys i forgot American media lives inside an anglocentric vacuum where margaret atwood is a seminal writer and time began in 1923.

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>>2155648
think again bud

>> No.2155655

I can't imagine ever taking Time magazine seriously.

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>>2155653

yeah man, jonathan safran foer and david foster wallace are literary pioneers.

Anyway I was talking about british media, not the current state of contemporary literature. We all know you hate the british d&e, you don't have to remind us.

>> No.2155665

>>2155662
american media, rather. sorry i'm working nightshift again tonight.

>> No.2155671

>>2155648
Apologies accepted. Next time pay more attention to the story before making a judgment.
(three posters corrected you simultaneously @14:06 >>2155636 >>2155637 >>2155638 !!!)