Originally Posted by
Pengwin7
(Oh, and FWIW, when I said top 25 fiction yesterday, yes... I meant all-time, all-fiction, not just fantasy... but that's my opinion. It's the best story I've ever read... and I've read the Odyssey, the LOTR trilogy, War & Peace, Crime & Punishment, Catch-22, Grapes of Wrath, 1984, Moby Dick, most of Dickens' work, and probably 25%-30% of the all-time revered classic works. Though literary critics won't put it up in the top of lists too soon - they'd all be afraid to be chastized for jumping him there with a finish of the story still pending. And even then, it's like somebody has to die before they can be esteemed into literary hall-of-fame.)