RARA-AVIS: Reading List Nomination (Was: Best 100 Novels of 20th Century)

ejm duggan (ejmd@mcmail.com)
Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:13:40 -0700 On Thu, 23 Jul 1998 Adan.Ayala@bdk.com wrote:

> If you haven't heard, a NY panel has voted and listed the best 100
> novles of the 20th Century.

Thanks for posting the info and URLs.
(I'm glad you didn't post the whole list and loads of other stuff).

I think we should be wary of allowing this list to be swamped by 'best
100' business though. Anyone whom subscribes to H-Film (I know there's
at least a couple here) will know that over the past month or so that
that list has been swamped ('fucked up' is the correct technical term, I
believe) by traffic obsessed by the AFA's 'top 100 [North] American
films'.

People there have posted the AFA 100, posted it again in quotes, and
then posted their own '100', and duplicated the top 100 of others in
quotes---all that and the discussion traffic on top makes for a pretty
heavy digest.

But to the point:

> May I nominate Cain's Postman for the next available group read?

Seconded.

ED

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