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[new_iconoclast]

I might have done this before, but for Molly I'll do it again. :) H/T to lemonlye. (Who makes up these lists, anyway

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[faecat]

I liked The Da Vinci Code, actually, but I was pretty appalled to see it on a top 100 anything list.

[new_iconoclast]

It's got a fascinating premise and is actually pretty well-researched (although as a Latter-day Saint, my reaction to the "shocking" premise that Christ was married was more like, "Well, duh"), but I just wish he'd have hired a ghost writer. He's awful.

[swampfaye]

I liked it too... and so did most mormons I know! But lets not ask what he REALLY thinks of Dan Brown...

[quietdarkness]

Oh, I have an academic on my friend's list who is terribly amused by this mish mash of a list. I think I've spared her by not doing this one.

My idea of hell is like that, only containing Frank Hebert and Shakespeare:)

[new_iconoclast]

Dune was great. All the rest of the Dune books could be nailed up next to the Money Wards catalog in the outhouse, and the ones written by Frank's poor benighted son Brian are simply beyond description.

Shakespeare is OK in limited doses, but as a steady diet would be cloying. However, at least his sentences make sense.

[quietdarkness]

I found Dune boring, but like a true science fiction fan, I plowed through to it's sappy, "moving" conclusion waiting for something interesting to happen. My husband wasn't ever able to finish it. I heard the sequels were worse.

The National Lampoon guys did a GREAT parody of it. I can't think of the name of it, but it captured Herbert's writing style perfectly...and like Bored of the Rings, it was terribly silly. I DID enjoy the parody very much.

[madscience]

I would do this if I could just click things, but I'm too lazy to mark it all by hand. Heh.

[afb]

I love your review of Ulysses. :D

[mollyringle]

Heheh. I love the strong reactions this list brings out in people. Still, it's hard to imagine anyone reading Gone With The Wind and not loving it.

[swampfaye]

I read it at 17 and LOVED it! I couldn't convince anyone else tho!