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Possibly, the most difficult question ever posed on BestandWorst.
by mojo on Mon Sep 11, 06 10:41am
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Voted : The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist - Robert Tressel
So many classic, but this one had a profound effect on me as a youth.
I'm being unashamedly biased on this one, all of my choices are by Dublin born authors. (o:
Ulysses by Dublin writer and polymath James Joyce is widely considered to be the greatest novel of the 20th century, if not of all time.
John Huston - the great American film director and hibernophile, condidered 'The Dead', taken from Dubliners to be the greatest short story ever written.
Ironically he made it into a movie in 1987 shot on location here in Dublin, it was to be his last film just before he became one of the eponymous Dead himself.
Ken, what about A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (sometimes referred to as Ulysses for Dumbies)?
Yeah, that was considered a semi-auto biographic reflection of the author's (Joyce's)life in his youthful years.
so many good books - how can i choose one as the "greatest book ever written"?
I can't even choose a favorite book - there are so many that I have really enjoyed.
Great ballot!
I think this is an excellent book to read and it's for all ages.
I think Huckleberry Finn is the greatest novel I've ever read. I can't say which novel is the greatest obviously because I have not read them all, but Huck Finn was so unique, beautifully written, and totally critical of a highly biased society that it just grabbed my attention from the start, and left a deep impression.
Voted : The Grapes Of Wrath, Steinbeck
Great Classic
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