Vox populi, vox dei

Post #91,910 by rcareaga 3/26/03 3:49:35 PM Reply	Vox populi, vox dei "LOTR is considered by many as the best novel of 20th century" Take that, Proust! Take that, Joyce! And you over there, yeah, Nabokov, this is for you...! I admit that it's been a l-o-o-o-ng time since I read Tolkien (35--no, closer to 36 years), but notwithstanding what I recall to have been intermittently diverting entertainment value, it's difficult not to think that anyone who would award LOTR the laurels just wasn't paying attention during the century under consideration. cordially, "Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."
Post #91,916 by bepatient 3/26/03 3:55:32 PM Reply	Might have to qualify that "best"... ...within the genre of Fantasy.... ..or you are correct...the "ranker" just wasn't paying attention. And I love the books...and have read them multiple times...but "Best of the Century"...nope, don't think so. If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #91,921 by boxley 3/26/03 4:05:35 PM Reply	best of genre perhaps but conrad, mailer(early stuff) steinbeck, Solzhenitsyn and many others. thanx, bill will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org] Since corporations are the equivelent of human but they have no "concience" they are by definition sociopaths
Post #91,926 by Silverlock 3/26/03 4:11:55 PM Reply	Only so much room in subject line Sorry, I should have expanded in the message body. The best fantasy novel of the twentieth century. Although I am sure there are some who consider it the best novel of any genre. The world is only a simple place to the simple.
Post #91,956 by pwhysall 3/26/03 5:37:00 PM Reply	Even within that genre Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy eclipses LOTR on any number of levels - descriptive power, emotive content, characterisation, plot, etc. LOTR is basically a meditation on language and God. There's precious little plot or characterisation there. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]

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