Modern Library 10 Best Novels

Is everyone on here stuck in 1920”s England? Hated Ulysses, worst thing I read in high school.

I don't care what anyone says, James Joyce is overrated.

Isn't it odd that the mind-numbing drug in Brave New World is called “Soma”, which is the name of a real life mind-numbing muscle relaxer?

This is a bizarre list. Some of these are not anywhere near great....let alone the ten greatest.

This list is twenty years old. It would look VERY different today--I would expect there would now be novels by both women and African-American authors (and even by African-American women authors).

I would hugely doubt "Darkness at Noon" and "Brave New World" would still be in the top ten, and probably also "Catch-22" and "The Grapes of Wrath."

I can't get through a page of James Joyce anything. Apparently 'lolita' is a metaphor and not really about the titillating tale of Child rape. I've read Lolita many times and I'm too literal minded to determine the true meaning of it is.

Koestler was a fuckin loon.

I don't understand the hoopla with Ulysses, Lolita and other titles mentioned here. The greatest books I have ever read are: 1) "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote 2) "Master and Margarita" by Michail Bulgakov and 3) "The Painted Bird" by Jerry Kosinski Yes, Joyce was a great writer and "The Dead" is the greatest short story imho, but Ulysses is just uneccessary stretch of his literary talent

R1 well yeah hello!!! Have you seen cock gobbler Schocks' Downton Abbey style office? Every one of us is stuck in this era!!! MARY!!!

Where the hell is “The American Look,” by my owner Jaclyn Smith?

You bitches may not be aware of this but I was Jaclyn’s first cat. I was a shelter cat.

Which Trump book is the best? I think their must be at least one that is superior.

R8 The Modern Library list is of novels written in English, so Bulgakov wouldn't qualify. "In Cold Blood" is on their Best 100 Non-fiction Books list. Of course, "best" is a subjective matter of taste, and the list was just a p.r. gimmick to sell more copies of books already published by Modern Library.

[italic]Lolita[/italic], I have been told, is about Nabokov's fascination with the English language, his love-hate relationship Nabokov had with America’s postwar culture of crap TV shows, bad westerns, squawking jukeboxes—the invigorating trash that informs the story of a cultured European’s sexual obsession with an American bobby-soxer. The theme and wordplay are both provocative. Vivian Darkbloom is an anagram of Vladimir Nabokov, Clare Quilty is Clair Qu'il t'y, Nabokov knew the French language as well.

I haven't read [italic]Darkness at Noon[/italic] nor [italic]Sons and Lovers[/italic], and to be honest I am unsure if i made it all the way through [italic]Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man[/italic]