It doesn't even belong on the list, period! (That's why it took me forever apologies.) The Modern Library must be joking if they believe this book belongs anywhere near the top ten. One of the worst things I've ever read in my life. Writing so good that I had remembered several scenes from the first time I read it way back in high school.Īutumn 2015: Autumn is my favorite season, but this fall has been the worst of my life, and I'm still licking my wounds. Lawrence! Apparently, I prefer his earlier stuff to his later stuff.Īutumn 2015Winter 2016: Suffering three simultaneous griefssome literal, some figurative, all painfulso books, videos, alcohol, solitude, & work are all helping get me along and through it.not there yet. I was expecting the worst, but this is surprisingly readable D.H. but I still just feel like crawling out of my own skin. Winter 2016: Not much to say here either still, and it's not because nothing's happened (I've been back & forth to California three times in as many months, had a birthday, & even enjoyed a string of great press ). Super puzzled that this would be a top-ten pick. Now I know why, despite having read this book in college, that I remember none of it! Not great, but at least better the second time around.possibly because the first time around, I didn't actually read it! (Sorry, Mrs. Surprising, maybe, how little of it I remembered from Western Civ I in college. What's Going on in My Life at the Time I Read this ClassicĬlick here to view the list as rank ordered by Classic Bitch.Ī short book that takes forever to read because it's supremely uninteresting.
My goal is to get as few hits as possible.
It's a boring & severely text-heavy site I've created for my own personal edification. The Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Classic Bitch This is documentation of my adventures making my way up the list of
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