Lol. That's a list of books that people think are supposed to be good books, but they never read.

Sure, there are some foundational texts in there that are important for understanding the development of western literature, but having the Holy Bible as #1 is just do dumb it makes my head hurt. What are they even trying to accomplish?

Absalom, Absalom! Why? Have they read that shit?

Literature and art are some of the only places where human ingenuity somehow stalled hundreds of years ago. Was the best car ever the fucking Model T? Was the best TV ever full of tubes and offering three channels? Seems like not.

But some dude lays down some tortured prose in a mind-bendingly complicated series of narrations, offering zero guide for the reader to follow, almost purposely making the book difficult to read, and we've got to genuflect for centuries to come? Stop that shit.

It's a good example of early-20th-century American literature. That doesn't mean we've got to keep it up there on a pedestal for the rest of time. If you like that stuff, guys like John Irving and Paul Auster and so many others have moved the genre forward.

Gah. Why did I post? No idea. But by no means should anyone lend any credence to this nonsense. It's nonsense! Ill informed! Trolling!