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To: Lorianne

Ulysses is unreadable, but more readable than Finnegan’s Wake.

Atlas Shrugged? Readable again and again. But I would not have voted it the best.

I vote for Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy.


4 posted on 03/15/2009 2:12:52 PM PDT by bvw
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To: bvw

That’s like saying rocks are indigestible but more digestible than razor blades.

Dubliners is readable. A Portrait of the Artist is readable. Ulysses is supposedly great literature, but I could never suffer all the way through it. Finnegan’s Wake? I’d rather spend an hour listening to a rabid paranoid schizophrenic yammering klang and word salad phrases. It would be more pleasant and intelligible.

As for Atlas Shrugged, it’s easily readable. It has that potboiler quality (and I mean that in a good way).


11 posted on 03/15/2009 2:56:22 PM PDT by behzinlea
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To: bvw
I vote for Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy.

How about Tolkien's LOTR trilogy?

15 posted on 03/15/2009 3:14:16 PM PDT by 3niner (Hoover turned a recession into a depression, FDR turned it into The Great Depression)
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