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TOP TEN WORKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY N1: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

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  1. marleyfin

    marleyfin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I do not agree with it being No. 1, although a well written book I do not understand how it topped Joyce and Faulkner on that list.

    Also The Great Gatsby as No.2??? that book needs to be moved down on the list or taken off.
     
    marleyfin, Oct 3, 2012
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  2. free man

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    Some additions:

    The road, Cormac McCarthy
    A Simple Story, Shmuel Yosef Agnon
     
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    A Clockwork Orange? Portnoy's Complaint? 1984?
     
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    Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - shhhhhhhh..

    Yep,, great read.
     
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    lizarddust Well-Known Member

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    The Mary Stewart series beginning with "The Crystal Cave".

    "One Crowded Hour" by Tim Bowden

    "Derailed in Uncle Ho's Victory Garden" by Tim Page
     
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    Brave New World.

    1984.
     
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    The Unberable Lightness Of Being - Milan Kundera
    Blindness - Jose Saramago
    A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
    The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
    Of Mice And Men - John Steinbeck
    Lord Of The Flies - William Golding
    The Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
    Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
    A Taste Of Honey - Shelagh Delaney
    Animal Farm - George Orwell
     
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    LOL, 'works' has a different meaning today, FYI.
     
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    Yeah, that is more my cup of tea.
     
    pimptight, Oct 3, 2012
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    Only reason it's "controversial" is because it (gasp) has the N word. Aka, political correctness.

    Though plenty of rap music albums do and that's never 'controversial' - go figure. :lol:
     
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    Don't enjoy reading fiction myself. Last book I read that was fiction was "Count of Monte Cristo" - pretty entertaining, long but good.
     
    SpaceCricket79, Oct 7, 2012
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    Mikhail Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita" and "Heart of a Dog" and "Morphine"
    Stanislav Lem All books of this Writer-master.
     
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  13. EvilAztec

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    For Russia is now very well-suited "Heart of a Dog"
    For the world as a whole Stanislova Lem's novel, "Eden"well-suited very well.
     
    EvilAztec, Oct 7, 2012
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    What is strange is that anyone loves it and even stranger that anyone thinks it is acceptable to publicly support child molestation.
     
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    litwin Well-Known Member

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    did you read this book? nabokov was an artist not a politician
     
    litwin, Oct 8, 2012
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    The only reason that book is at #1 is because it's about screwing a 13 year old girl. :lol: I guarantee it.
     
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  17. Viv

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    Oh go and try to kid someone more gullible. I suppose porn is art to you.:roll:

    You carry on trying to justify paedophilia and I'll carry on calling it what it is. A criminal offence.













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    Not really. It's more because of the number of "men" who need locking up.
     
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    Aztec, have you ever read anything in Russian resembling this? :
     
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    How the (*)(*)(*)(*) is 1984 not on that list?
     
    Ethereal, Oct 9, 2012
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    Has anyone mentioned Camus yet?

    Also I'll throw in "For whom the Bell Tolls" by Hemmingway, great novel.
     
    JohnConstantine, Oct 10, 2012
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    I would add
    EARTH ABIDES
    to the top of the list, I have NO idea how "lolita" got there.
    oh well .... there is no accounting for taste ......
    whatever ......
     
    genericBob, Sep 29, 2014
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  23. Aleksander Ulyanov

    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    It should be noted that Nabakov himself said that Lolita was a metaphor for the English language, which is very young compared to most languages from Europe and the rest of the world. She might also be compared to America in that respect.
     
    Aleksander Ulyanov, Oct 24, 2014
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  24. Sir Thaddeus

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    Yes

    Maybe

    Yes

    Yes

    Yes

    /yes

    Meh

    Yes

    Absolutely

    Na

    Never Read em.

    I like your list. Closest to mine.
     
    Sir Thaddeus, Nov 10, 2014
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