What is the Greatest of all Novels?
By Carl Halling
@CarlHalling (3617)
United Kingdom
April 7, 2008 4:40am CST
What novel is greatest for you? Is it a great American novel ny Fitzgerald? Hemingway? London? James? Hawthorne? or a great British novel? Dickens perhaps, or Thomas Hardy, or perhaps a 20th Century novel by DH Lawrence or Evelyn Waugh? Or a great French novel...Balzac perhaps? or Hugo? Or a deep intense Russian novel by Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy? etc. etc. Which for you is the greatest novel of them all? Let's talk novels...
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@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
9 Apr 08
The greatest to me isn't by far the greatest novel Ever written. My favorite is More Tales Of The City by Armistead Maupin.It captured my attention with the first sentence. No book had done that to me before. It is funny and entertaining. I just love it.
@CarlHalling (3617)
• United Kingdom
9 Apr 08
I've never read it I have to confess. I did give it a look-in when it was on TV some years back though. The City in question is San Francisco, I think, am I right? Think so.
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@MichaelJay (1100)
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7 Apr 08
I'm not well read in the classical sense in that I never got past GCE O level English.
I was introduced to Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy in the 60's and consider it to be the best thing I have read.
That doesn't mean there are not better books out there, just that I have not read them.
Tolkien's depth of detail and descriptive prose take you literally into another universe.
@CarlHalling (3617)
• United Kingdom
7 Apr 08
Hi Michael
I've never read "Lord of the Rings"; and am only familiar with this vast work from the movies. Together with "The Hobbit" it's made an incredible impact on the post-'60s generation; that can't be denied, and it continues to do so.
