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Re: a simple questionnaire

From: Terry Harpold <tharpold~at~english.ufl.edu>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 21:23:13 -0400
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On Apr 1, 2007, at 4:38 PM, nejat bayramoglu wrote:

> If you have a couple of minutes to spare, please send a list of
> your “top ten novels”.
> It doesn’t matter which one you place at no. 1 or at no.10.
> You may have ten Verne novels in your list or none.
> This is just a modest attempt to find out the literary tastes of
> the Forum members.
> I will wait for a reasonable time and then post the results.

As accurate as such lists can be, as they seem to change from year to
year, decade to decade -- and would probably change again if I took
more than a few minutes to compile them:

Top ten Verne (not in order):

Voyage au centre de la terre
Le Sphinx des glaces
Le Testament d'un excentrique
La Jangada
Voyages et aventures du Capitaine Hatteras
Les Indes noires
Le Château des Carpathes
L’Île mystérieuse
Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers
Michel Strogoff

Top ten overall (not in order)

J.G. Ballard, Crash
Herbert Read, The Green Child
Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination
James Joyce, Ulysses
Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned -- let's call it a novel
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Marguerita
Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
Voyage au centre de la terre
Le Sphinx des glaces

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Terry Harpold
Assistant Professor
Dept. of English, University of Florida
<http://www.english.ufl.edu/~tharpold>

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