George,
Are you aware that there is a Joyce Group that meets every Saturday in the Library that is doing, among other things, a line-by-line exegesis of Finnegan's Wake? Led by a man who knows huge sections of it by heart. So, if you are reading along in one passage, and you think, "ah, that's an echo of an earlier passage", he can quote the passage echoed, word for word. Now THAT's expertise. Nick From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of George Duncan Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 3:33 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The Best 10 Fictional Works Restricting to just novels -- "Ulysses" by James Joyce "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce "Moby Dick" (1849) by Herman Melville "The Sound and the Fury" (1929) by William Faulkner "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky "Crime and Punishment: by Fyodor Dostoyevsky "Atonement" (2002) by Ian McEwan "Catch-22" (1961) by Joseph Heller "The French Lieutenant's Woman" (1969) by John Fowles "Herzog" (1964) by Saul Bellow On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Robert J. Cordingley <rob...@cirrillian.com> wrote: 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. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org <http://www.friam.org/> -- George Duncan georgeduncanart.com <http://georgeduncanart.com/> (505) 983-6895 Represented by ViVO Contemporary Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward. Soren Kierkegaard
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