Frothy Paradise

tart-tart:

mohandasgandhi:

allthebees:effigie

I am still not understanding the top ten or the Heinlein.

Apart from 1984, the top 10 on the reader’s list is beyond laughable.  I don’t want to know the people who contributed to that list.

From the About the Lists page:

Since the “100 Best” story first broke in The New York Times on Monday, July 20, 1998, all kinds of opinions about the list - and theories about the Modern Library’s purpose in concocting such a contest of sorts - emerged… The readers’ poll for the best novels published in the English language since 1900 opened on July 20, 1998 and closed on October 20, 1998, with 217,520 votes cast.

Translation: Greater Wingnuttia, which was in the throes of the Lewinsky scandal at the time this poll was conducted, got their collective shorts in a bunch when the Communist Dictatorship of the Times suggested they might be compiling a list of important works of literature. Fearing that Stalin’s Big Ol’ Guide For Baby Killin’ And Homo Lovin’ might make the list, the population of Greater Wingnuttia stuffed the proverbial ballot box. And thus we have a list that proves USians are loud, ignorant, opinionated bullies who really might become extinct by 2012 if they don’t get their shit together.