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The Greatest Novel Never Read

Posted Oct 31, 07 8:10 PM CDT in Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Just because they're accomplished writers doesn't mean they've made it through Ulysses. Slate asks contemporary authors to confess to the must-read classics they've never read:

  1. Amy Bloom, Moby Dick
  2. Stephen Carter, Harry Potter
  3. Jennifer Egan, Buddenbrooks

  1. Curtis Sittenfeld, Harry Potter
  2. Laura Lippman, Ulysses
  3. J.D. McClatchy, Oblomov
  4. Angie Cruz, Middlemarch
  5. John Haskell, Slaughterhouse-Five
  6. Myla Goldberg, To The Lighthouse
  7. Jonathan Ames, The Bible
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Moby Dick, or the White Whale, by Herman Melville.   (Earth Explorer)
Ulysses, a groundbreaking event in world literature, is one of the books guiltily overlooked by some contemporary novelists interviewed.   ((c) Novecentino)
British author J K Rowling at the release of her latest Harry Potter book called 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' at the Natural History Museum in London, Friday July 20, 2007. The Harry Potter...   (Associated Press)
"I haven't read the Bible, Ulysses, Moby-Dick, A la Recherche Du Temps Perdu, or any of the Greek tragedies" confesses author Jonathan Ames.   ((c) blugeoner86)
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