[MD] ZAMM in top 100 fave novels of readers

[Matt Kundert]

Given the Top Ten, I'm actually quite surprised about the kind of 
overlap the Reader's List has with the Board's List.  The Great 
Gatsby is quite readable, and of excellent "literary merit" (whatever 
that is: we might just say, what Joyce and Fitzgerald have and Rand 
and Hubbard don't), but Ulysses at #11?  The voters must split 
quite distinctly into schizophrenic demographic categories to get 
that kind of list.  (Have you tried to read Ulysses or Faulkner's 
Absalom, Absalom!?  Whatever we might say about the critic's 
authority to tell people what has literary merit, those are -not- the 
kinds of books you'd normally find alongside Tolkien or Douglas 
Adams.)

Matt

> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:18:22 +0100
> From: horse at darkstar.uk.net
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Subject: Re: [MD] ZAMM in top 100 fave novels of readers
> 
> Pretty much what I was thinking Ian - the top 4 says it all really.
> Battlefield Earth over Lord of the Rings!!!
> 
> On 19/06/2012 09:44, Ian Glendinning wrote:
> > Hilarious.
> > I think the Readers List probably days a lot about Modern Library's
> > subscribers and voters.
> > Rand not just 1&  2, but also 7&  8
> > L Ron Hubbard not just 3, but 9&  10
> >
> > I think that's a list ZMM&  Lila would do well to escape.
> > Ian
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Michael R. Brown<mrb at fuguewriter.com>  wrote:
> >> ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig
> >>
> >> - http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/