| # | Author | Message |
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| TALL Disney Guy
Fri 4/14/2006 11:28p | <TDG - that was just my my little attempt at humor.>
Ahhh...I'm sorry. I've had a bad day and I'm tired. I'll try to be smarter next time.
*sheepish*
(lol)
<But so far, all I see is people from all walks of life committing violent or unkind acts, initiating sexual relationships with little thought at all,>
Hmm, sounds sorta like what I see on the news every day here at work... |
682
| alexbook
Fri 4/14/2006 11:52p | >>Or am I just living in the past and expecting contemporary fiction to rise to the level of 19th century authors such as Bronte and Austen and Hardy and Dickens and Twain and Hemingway and Steinbeck, et al?<<
Some of it does. Most of it doesn't. Then again, most of the books published in the 19th century were terrible, too. It's just that most of the bad ones have been forgotten.
From Wikipedia, here are 1906's best-selling novels:
1. Coniston - Winston Churchill
2. Lady Baltimore - Owen Wister
3. The Fighting Chance - Robert W. Chambers
4. The House of a Thousand Candles - Meredith Nicholson
5. Jane Cable - George Barr McCutcheon
6. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
7. The Awakening of Helena Ritchie - Margaret Deland
8. The Spoilers - Rex Beach
9. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
10. The Wheel of Life - Ellen Glasgow
From USA Today, here are last week's best-selling novels:
1. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
2. Two Little Girls in Blue - Mary Higgins Clark
3. Full Scoop - Janet Evanovich & Charlotte Hughes
4. No Place Like Home - Mary Higgins Clark
5. Time & Again - Nora Roberts
6. Angels & Demons - Dan Brown
7. Countdown - Iris Johansen
8. Dark Demon - Christine Feehan
9. The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd
10. Gone - Jonathan Kellerman
Is 1906's list really any better than 2006's? |
683
| JohnS1
Fri 4/14/2006 11:55p | I'll bet the 1906 list had a higher Gunning Fog Index score! (-: |
684
| MissCandice
Sat 4/15/2006 12:01p | The House of Mirth is one of my favorite books. It can certainly hold its own with the books of today as far as depravity and human wretchedness, without any swear words. |
685
| DVC_dad
Sat 4/15/2006 8:49p | I just finished Oliver Twist, and read a real fast read The Adventures of Huch Finn, and now today I started Uncle Tom's Cabin. I already have my next book lined up, that will be David Copperfield.
Anyone read any of these? Thoughts? |
686
| DVC_dad
Sat 4/15/2006 8:50p | Huch Finn is of course...Huck, sorry. |
687
| irishfan
Sat 4/15/2006 8:51p | >>Anyone read any of these? Thoughts?<<
You cant really go wrong with Dickens, tale of two cities is probably my favourite of his. |
688
| irishfan
Sat 4/15/2006 8:53p | Theft, by Peter Carey. It's his latest one, not yet published in the UK, not sure about the U.S.
Anyway, I have a love hate relationship with Carey's books, so far I'm enjoying this one. |
689
| Chedstro
Sat 4/15/2006 10:43p | An old ARC of The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelley. The first of his I have read. I am relly enjoying it so far! |
690
| alexbook
Sun 4/16/2006 1:44p | >>I'll bet the 1906 list had a higher Gunning Fog Index score! (-:<<
Huh?
Just started "Rachel & Leah" by Orson Scott Card. (All this religious talk got me thinking.) |
