tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post5164508819832863479..comments2024-03-14T13:06:38.883+00:00Comments on cultural snow: Simply the best?Tim Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-1158457197769051062008-04-20T14:02:00.000+01:002008-04-20T14:02:00.000+01:00I've always been partial to Mr Greedy, personally....I've always been partial to Mr Greedy, personally. Although maybe my memories of him have elided into The Very Hungry Caterpillar.Tim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-61445408218894522612008-04-20T13:52:00.000+01:002008-04-20T13:52:00.000+01:00Well said, Annie. I think you've got your sense of...Well said, Annie. I think you've got your sense of proportion absolutely right. (Tho' Mr Silly might be worth a mention.)Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14227767014123557100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-29857584835342830172008-04-19T13:15:00.001+01:002008-04-19T13:15:00.001+01:00Though having said that, I'd vote for Roger Hargre...Though having said that, I'd vote for Roger Hargreaves' Mr Tickle.Anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-80129389454226456852008-04-19T13:15:00.000+01:002008-04-19T13:15:00.000+01:00I once went on an interview at HarperCollins to be...I once went on an interview at HarperCollins to be assistant to an editor. The interviewer asked 'What makes you angry?' Er, um, er, politicians, I answered. It turned out to be the editor of the Thatcher Diaries. Wrong answer. <BR/><BR/>Maybe it's a gender thing, but any sort of canon or list like this makes me anxious, and seems to take all the fun out of reading...Anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-69190792936518184402008-04-19T07:17:00.000+01:002008-04-19T07:17:00.000+01:00Well, that told 'em.Being the Torygraph, though, I...Well, that told 'em.<BR/><BR/>Being the Torygraph, though, I suppose we should be relieved the Thatcher Diaries don't make a showing.Tim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-37396653146940412552008-04-18T23:19:00.000+01:002008-04-18T23:19:00.000+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Rimshothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10704736086427919860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-44182539508273256962008-04-18T11:24:00.000+01:002008-04-18T11:24:00.000+01:00Given the premise, Lady Chatterley's Lover seems l...Given the premise, Lady Chatterley's Lover seems like a glaring omission, as does Oroonoko, widely considered to be the first English novel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-21061866005004766272008-04-18T02:54:00.000+01:002008-04-18T02:54:00.000+01:00Canterbury Tales; something from Kipling (I just s...Canterbury Tales; something from Kipling (I just saw Masterpiece Theatre's "My Boy Jack" or When Samantha Jones met Harry Potter); Crime & Punishment; Atlas Shrugged (not as great literature, but for its influence on many people of power, e.g. Alan Greenspan)Mapeelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12149683683413237283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-88802830220048640852008-04-17T19:28:00.000+01:002008-04-17T19:28:00.000+01:00I abstain from commenting on THE LIST as I'm in no...I abstain from commenting on THE LIST as I'm in no position to judge what literary works are truly earth shaking. However, the first three book that come to mind when compiling my list of printed matter that makes my heart go pitter-patter are: The Once and Future King, Watership Down and Of Mice and Men. <BR/><BR/>I did think Rainbow Six was very entertaining, too.Rimshothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10704736086427919860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-10950293865474604882008-04-17T19:24:00.000+01:002008-04-17T19:24:00.000+01:00I guess I'm a philistine as I dislike Dickens, abh...I guess I'm a philistine as I dislike Dickens, abhor Austen and am not enamoured of the Brontes. I am reading 100 Years of Solitude (Marquez) at the moment and I can see where de Bernieres got some inspiration for his South American Trilogy.<BR/><BR/>Wilkie Collins "The Moonstone" and Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue" were founding tomes in the crime genre. My list would have one or more Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes books.<BR/><BR/>On the sci-fi side Yevgheny Zamyatin's "We" is more dystopian and much earlier than Orwell's "1984" (and Forster's "The Machine Stops" is another classic, but a short story rather than a novel).llewtrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06056744147599140057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-16573296942096999022008-04-17T12:36:00.000+01:002008-04-17T12:36:00.000+01:00Oh, the things you find out late in life - I may j...Oh, the things you find out late in life - I may just have to read Ulysses now.Mangonelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05674752753786940378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-7345080827859650712008-04-16T17:45:00.000+01:002008-04-16T17:45:00.000+01:00Updike needs to GO.sub: To Kill A Mockingbird'Neur...Updike needs to GO.<BR/>sub: To Kill A Mockingbird<BR/><BR/>'Neuromancer' yaaaaaaaawn<BR/>sub: UBIK<BR/><BR/>Renaults trilogy? huh? wha?<BR/>sub: The Count of Monte Cristo<BR/><BR/>Poe: go to the bottom of the class, anonymous list compiler. Poe's Solar Pons was the model for Dupin.<BR/><BR/> i dont' even know why i read these things, truthfully; they only piss me off.FirstNationshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13387748372500478809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-12927421035264415792008-04-16T17:23:00.000+01:002008-04-16T17:23:00.000+01:00Changed the Anglophone world, DT means.Seriously, ...Changed the <I>Anglophone</I> world, <I>DT</I> means.<BR/><BR/>Seriously, any list that does not include <I>Huckleberry Finn</I> is pretty much worthless. And why was Lewis Carroll left off the list?Jun Okumurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00291478225274759649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-69136010662320878182008-04-16T16:23:00.000+01:002008-04-16T16:23:00.000+01:00i've read more of them than i thought, usually the...i've read more of them than i thought, usually these lists leave me looking like a right philistine.<BR/><BR/>as for cultural importance, i nominate <I>Peig</I> (if translations are allowed?) - the most vilified book in the canon of Irish lit. the original Irish version was compulsory on school curricula for years and the poor whingebag has been blamed ever since for the decline of the language.<BR/><BR/>"<I>I am an old woman now, with one foot in the grave and the other on its edge. I have experienced much ease and much hardship from the day I was born until this very day. Had I known in advance half, or even one-third, of what the future had in store for me, my heart wouldn't have been as gay or as courageous it was in the beginning of my days...</I>"<BR/><BR/>cheery stuff.Rosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02180283117498339278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-33168700800582083462008-04-16T13:50:00.000+01:002008-04-16T13:50:00.000+01:00Where's A Clockwork Orange or anything by William ...Where's A Clockwork Orange or anything by William Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, John Fante, Ira Levin...?<BR/><BR/>And no Salman Rushdie? I'm shocked!<BR/><BR/>I enjoy reading books and I'm glad I've read them and I may read them again but I'm absolutely hopeless at talking about them.Geoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00340519450159428760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-3547563405488932432008-04-16T10:11:00.000+01:002008-04-16T10:11:00.000+01:00Hmm, David Hume's "A Treatise on Human Nature" spr...Hmm, David Hume's "A Treatise on Human Nature" springs to mind as an important book which I've never read.<BR/><BR/>No female authors in the "Books that changed the world" section.<BR/><BR/>"Little Wolf's Book of Badness" by Ian Whybrow - the audio books, read by Griff Rhys-Jones, are particularly hilarious but not one of the important contibutions to the canon of western literature.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15842622672253226570noreply@blogger.com