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Finite Jest?

alligator_katz.jpgDavid Foster Wallace's Top 10 books from the appropriately titled The Top Ten:

1. The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
2. The Stand - Stephen King
3. Red Dragon - Thomas Harris
4. The Thin Red Line - James Jones
5. Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
6. The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
7. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
8. Fuzz - Ed McBain
9. Alligator - Shelley Katz
10. The Sum of All Fears - Tom Clancy

Legit? Fun with listmaking? One never knows, after all, now does one now does one now does one.

Posted by Omar on January 25, 2007 12:22 PM |

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I sort of assume (I haven't read any these) that these are books DFW thinks are worth reading but which have been pushed into some sort of non-literary genre: mystery, sci-fi, romance, Christian, &c. It seems obvious, but, again, I haven't read them.

Posted by: Eldridge Crayon | March 2, 2007 1:00 AM

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