tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post859408539398393388..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Greatest Novels of All TimeAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-59441016627838945912015-09-06T23:31:22.042-04:002015-09-06T23:31:22.042-04:00AVI,
As a fellow LOTR lover, I hope you appreciat...AVI, <br />As a fellow LOTR lover, I hope you appreciate this fantastic essay on the backstory between Gandalf and Saruman as much as I did. It's called "The Unquiet Voice of Saruman" at <br />http://www.tor.com/2015/07/15/the-unquiet-voice-of-saruman/Galenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08125583145056956261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-29672179926793195662015-09-06T23:19:07.484-04:002015-09-06T23:19:07.484-04:00Reading Middlemarch in middle age was an immensely...Reading Middlemarch in middle age was an immensely pleasurable experience. George Eliot was wise; I would say that the novel was deepening rather than transformational. Through a glass, wryly: I saw all of my faults, and then some, from various stages of my life, reflected in each of the characters.Galenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08125583145056956261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-86744817304900546872015-09-06T16:26:27.812-04:002015-09-06T16:26:27.812-04:00Such lists are good for recommending the next book...Such lists are good for recommending the next book to read- if one hasn't already read it. Agreed that no such list is written in stone.RichardJohnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07490819511630683969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-88223465819707193972015-09-02T15:10:01.007-04:002015-09-02T15:10:01.007-04:00LOTR? I go with the old consensus, War and Peace...LOTR? I go with the old consensus, War and Peace. I read it again in my 60's and it was even better than I remembered. My only complaint was that it came to an end. Another old favorite of mine, Ulysses, did not fair so well. I now regard Joyce as jejune.Luke Leahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290760894780619646noreply@blogger.com