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Is this really the third greatest novel of all time, /lit/. I mean, I could see it being in the top 50 or even 20, but third?

>> No.1085677

Well, it sure as hell can't be the best or second best. Ulysses and Finnegans Wake have those two spots.

>> No.1085678

Make your own fucking list, then, it's always subjective.

>> No.1085682

OP here

here's the list
http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html

>> No.1085688

>>1085677
Also, wake is number 77 on it. Just below The Catcher in the Rye.

>> No.1085687 [DELETED] 

>>1085682

You ought to take a look at number 57, too.

>> No.1085690

>>1085688
Finnegans Wake is phoney

>> No.1085691

>>1085682
>Pynchon
>Reader's list, not board's list
what the fuck is this

>> No.1085693

>>1085687
You ought to take a look at number 1, too. The readers sure made a great list.

>> No.1085694

>>1085690

no. you have to be mad drunk to get it.

>> No.1085695

one of my favorites, that's for sure

>> No.1085702

>>1085682
Where is Ada, Or Ardor?
Better than Lolita.

>> No.1085715

>Under the Volcano not in the top 10
>No Pynchon
What is this shit?
LOLSORANDUMHOUSE

>> No.1085722

Why do you take some list made by a publishing company as fact? Jesus, be a little more freethinking. I'm betting every single book on there is published by Random House.

>> No.1085732

1. ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
2. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
3. BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard

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>>1085732
Seems about right to me.

>> No.1085743

I love how the reader's list has all of Ayn Rand's novels in the top 8 and the board's list doesn't have a single one of them.

Ayn Rand is too good for this.

>> No.1085761

>No Moby-Dick.

Nothing to see here folks.

>> No.1085794

1. The Sound and The Fury
2. The Brothers Karamazov
3. Don Quixote
4. Ulysses
5. Moby-Dick
6. War and Peace
7. In Search of Lost Time
8. Madame Bovary
9. The Great Gatsby
10. Lolita

>> No.1085800

It's not of all time you retard it's since the 1900's