The FBG Top 300 Books of All Time (fiction edition) | #18 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy | Running list in posts #3 and #4 (12 Viewers)

[Psychopav]

Lord of the Flies is a fine horror/adventure book, but its central premise--that people will revert to barbarism and human sacrifice--is false and dumb and sucks ****.


I think in Golding's case he's projecting his own bleak view of humanity on to a bunch of kids he made up, and appealing to the internalized authority of Imperial England who until very recently spent centuries traveling around the globe using violence to "enlighten" various people they determined to be "savages". It is a parent beating a child "for their own good"--ultimately an appeal to authoritarianism.


Also, in 1965 a bunch of actual boarding-school kids were actual castaways on an uninhabited South Pacific island and they lived there for months and didnt murder one another and in fact functioned quite cooperatively for 15 months.

Tongan castaways - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Bro, do you even watch Yellowjackets?

 

[Oliver Humanzee]

I do not! Haven't even heard of it!

 

[Eephus]

I do not! Haven't even heard of it!

They're Smooth Jazz--right up your alley. You'll love them.

 

[Eephus]

18

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Don Quixote, Oliver Humanzee, Dr_Zaius, Eephus, Psychopav

It's been almost 40 rounds since one of my books came up in the countdown.

I doubt there will be more.

 

[Don Quixote]

I don’t have much to add on Dr Zaius’s write-up of Anna Karenina. War and Peace took me right away, but I did have to put Anna Karenina down and try again later. I was not feeling it a couple hundred pages in the first time. I may have not been in the right spirit — maybe I tried too soon after War and Peace initially, and needed a break from Tolstoy. But it worked for me the second time, and came to appreciate why it is one of the greatest.

 

[kupcho1]

It's been almost 40 rounds since one of my books came up in the countdown.

Yep, your last one was #57!

I doubt there will be more.