{"id":1011,"date":"2005-10-24T19:50:06","date_gmt":"2005-10-24T19:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2005-10-24T19:50:06","modified_gmt":"2005-10-24T19:50:06","slug":"playing_favorit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1011","title":{"rendered":"Playing Favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been ruminating over Time Magazine&#8217;s list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/2005\/100books\/the_complete_list.html\">100 best English-language novels<\/a> from 1923-present (of which I&#8217;ve read about 15%).  It&#8217;s a curious list.  I was surprised to see two thematically similar SF novels (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/2005\/100books\/0,24459,neuromancer,00.html\">Neuromancer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/2005\/100books\/0,24459,snow_crash,00.html\">Snow Crash<\/a>), along with two fantasy classics (you can probably guess <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/2005\/100books\/0,24459,the_lord_of_the_rings,00.html\">which<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/2005\/100books\/0,24459,the_lion_the_witch_and_the_wardrobe,00.html\">ones<\/a>).  It&#8217;s nice to see the genres getting some love, but I might have picked someone like Bradbury over Stephenson.  A lot of the selections are relatively recent, as well.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/2005\/100books\/0,24459,never_let_me_go,00.html\">Never Let Me Go<\/a> was released just this year, while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/2005\/100books\/0,24459,white_teeth,00.html\">White Teeth<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/2005\/100books\/0,24459,the_blind_assassin,00.html\">The Blind Assassin<\/a> were published in the last five.  And to not include anything by John Irving seems negligent almost to the point of criminality.<br \/>\nLists like this are silly, anyway.  It&#8217;s impossible to pick 100 books and declare them artistically superior to all of their peers; such declarations being inherently subjective and more than a little arbitrary.  But I&#8217;m curious to know what other works you think should have been included in the list.  It might give me some ideas for my next book run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been ruminating over Time Magazine&#8217;s list of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923-present (of which I&#8217;ve read about 15%). It&#8217;s a curious list. I was surprised to see two thematically similar SF novels (Neuromancer and Snow Crash), along with two fantasy classics (you can probably guess which ones). 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