We have a winner!
A new article at AOL Online, "35 Weird But Brilliant Books If You Are Seeking To Read Something Different, As Shared Online," supposedly based on "netizens in various online threads" (a methodology isn't spelled out) has 35 works of fiction ranked. The top-ranked book is Illuminatus! by Wilson and Shea.
The author of the article, Denis Krotovas, ventures opinions on some of the 35 works bur is silent about Illuminatus! There is actually no information about Illuminatus! at all in the article, just a cover image. Still, it's good for the work to get some coverage, I guess.
Of the 35 rankings (confusingly, for some rankings more than one title is listed), I've read (besides Illuminatus!, of course) Italo Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveller, Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany, 334 by Thomas Disch and A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Draw your own conclusions as to whether I am a weirdo reader. I really do need to get around to reading Tristam Shandy.
Hat tip, Nick Helseg-Larsen.
1 comment:
I enjoyed "Tristram Shandy" as well as David Thomson's biography of Sterne. That bio helped me understand the European world of "The Earth Will Shake".
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