Re: 20/20 List
Gene Woo (pariah1980@yahoo.com)
Thu, 21 Oct 1999 10:31:25 -0700 (PDT)
In no order:(correct me if some of these aren't from
the 20th century)
"Dharma Bums" -Jack Kerouac
"On the Road" -Jack Kerouac
"Trainspotting" -Irvine Welsh
"Different Seasons" -Stephen King(Great book with
stories that became "Stand by Me", "Shawshank
Redemption", "Apt Pupil")
"Flappers and Philosophers" -F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Of Mice and Men" -John Steinbeck
"Last Night of the Earth Poems" -Charles Bukowski
"Song of Solomon" -Toni Morrison
"Rule of the Bone" -Russell Banks(Author of
"Affliction")
"How to Talk Dirty and Influence People" -Lenny Bruce
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" -Ken Kesey
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" -Edward Albee
and of course work by J. D. Salinger
i'll list more after I go through my bookshelf again.
lol
--- citycabn <citycabn@gateway.net> wrote:
> Fellow fishes,
>
> With *our* 20th century really winding down, I
> thought it might be fun, over
> the next month or two, to have each fish list
> her/his favorite (or
> favourite) *twenty books published in the 20th
> century.* (Yes, anything on
> the nightstand or at the claw foot of the bathtub,
> from "The Joy of Sex" to
> "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the
> Human Sciences," is fine.)
>
> Price Waterhouse will tabulate the results. The
> twenty winners (the titles
> most often sung out in a clear, loud voice) will be
> announced on January 1,
> 2000, from a hilltop in Cornish, New Hampshire.
>
> --Frederick
>
>
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