Robert --
The St. John's graduate in me says "whoopie"! Here are 10, in no particular
order:
Shakespeare: Sonnets
Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet
Dante: The Divine Comedy
Homer: The Iliad
Tolstoy: War & Peace
Cervantes: Don Quixote
Eliot: Middlemarch
Austen: Pride & Prejudice
Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Melville: Moby Dick
If you're okay with an anthology, The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose is well
worth a look, as is anything by Wodehouse, I believe.
I'm sure some will quibble with my choices (too Western, too St. John's-y, not
really fiction), but I'd aver at least some of them qualify in the sense of
being "based on a true story", if not necessarily fiction.
Happy Reading!
- Claiborne Booker -
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert J. Cordingley <rob...@cirrillian.com>
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com>
Sent: Fri, Oct 8, 2010 3:44 pm
Subject: [FRIAM] The Best 10 Fictional Works
Ok, so I've decided my literary education is somewhat lacking and would like
to know this group's recommendations for the "10 Best Literary Works" I should
read. They have to be works of fiction and available in English and not just
say of 2009 but of all time. Google searches tend to list the best of a year
or be listed by one particular publisher. This is a good group to poll since
you all (most) have at least some kind of scientific/technical bent. So I know
the suggestions will be good ones for me!
Once I have a list of all suggestions maybe I'll ask you all to vote on them.
My list currently starts with Frank's recommendation today:
"Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West" by Cormac McCarthy
Thanks!
Robert C.
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