Greatest Novel of All-Time

I think Kitteridge is a novel, I think Winesburg, OH is a novel and I think A Visit From the Goon Squad is a novel.

I KNOW, however, that The Things They Carried, is a novel.

I'm all kinds of excited to read Diaz's new one.

 

I think Winesburg, OH is a novel.

I think Things They Carried is, too.

 

The Naked and the Dead, Catcher in the Rye, On the Road, , Mockingbird, Handmaid's Tale .....

How about The Bonfire of The Vanities?

 

Is "This Boy's Life" a novel?

 

Huh. Ok. Maybe it's generational.

Or all that metafictional experimentation in the 60s is finally paying off and our notions of what's what are more plastic.

Not a single expression of love so far for "Old Man and the Sea"?

Scandalous.

 

Given what we know about the Wolff family, and Geoff's "Duke of Deception," maybe we call it a roman a clef.

 

The Old Man and the Sea is the tightest great novel ever written.

But it still comes in third behind Sun Also Rises and Farewell to Arms in the Hemingway canon.

 

It's got to be in the running for postwar champeen.

 

Cannery Row.

 

Even Winerip namechecks 'Mockingbird' for postwar favorite in that link.

Where's Roth? Where's Bellow? Gaddis? Gass? Barth?

 

I did that all the time, then would find myself reading the book after the assignment was done. Hell, I could participate in lengthy debates on some of those books without even having purchased it.