Readers of The New York Times have spoken. Kinda predictably. Yep, the best. Whatever you say.
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NYT “Best Book”
[At least they didn’t pick Harry Potter.]
Wednesday, December 29, 2021
The best book of the past 125 years
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I ran into a pay wall at the NYT link--
can you say what the Best Book is?
--Frex = Fresca
It’s To Kill a Mockingbird.
I’ve added a “gift” link (I don’t always think of it), so you can see the whole thing.
Hahaha--perfect. We white folks like to think we are all Atticus Finch, eh?
It says so much about the paper and its audience. It’s bewildering. But it’s a good reminder that the Book Review is hardly the last word on literary value.
Charlotte's Web doesn't even get a mention!
It was in their longer list of books to vote for.
Me, I’m now leaning to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Have you read Harry Potter? I finally broke down and bought the Kindle version of the series. I have so much to get to first, both paper and ebooks, like some on Illinois geology.
I'll have to read the article. I haven't read that much published since 1900 (one exception being To Kill a Mockingbird, half a lifetime ago).
I read the first page of the first one and stopped there. Just not for me.
Well, now I'm reading about Cahokia, Jeffersonian thought, and Betrayal by Jonathan Karl, in addition to an earth science textbook, so I'm all over the place. :)
Also, I picked up a Stephen King book twice. The first time I had to stop reading after the first page. The second time I picked and a random page, on which a weasel was "gnawing." Weasels don't "gnaw." He seems a decent person, but his writing style is not for me.
I’m about to go from Plato to The Turn of the Screw.
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