List Time! Glorious Fabulous List Time!
I suspect that if you took a handful of librarians, placed them in a small room, and handed them a couple hundred lists you'd have some fairly happy campers right up until the food and water ran out. Lists sustain us like nothing else. And since we've gone a good 4 or 5 days here without one, why not roll out the list of 100 greatest books Penguin recently rolled out for its 60th anniversary. Allowing itself a little more whimsy than other lists, I was still relatively intrigued that they placed Alice In Wonderland under the Best Journey category. At least they weren't calling her a minx like poor Lolita.
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Many of the usual suspects -- but where do they come up with those categories? And if a book has "the best something" in it, does that make it one of the best books of all time?
I also wonder if they came up with the books first, then found categories to fit them, or picked the categories first?
Agreed. This is pretty much the MTV Movie Awards of book lists. I suspect that most of the books came before the categories. Then they found fillers.
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