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To: TH who wrote (105528)	12/8/2000 1:30:11 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Certainly I have read "The Veldt". I believe I recall reading "The Man". My favorite Bradbury is "Fahrenheit 451", which was made into an excellent movie. I like Saul Bellow a lot, particularly "Herzog" and "Mr. Sammler's Planet". I don't like Mailer's novels much, and have only read a couple, but I like his essays, particularly those collected in "Cannibals and Christians". I have never much cared for Phillip Roth, until I read "The Counterlife", which I think was very good. I have little patience for John Updike, although I thought "Roger's Tale" was pretty good. My favorite novelist of all time is Dostoyevsky, particularly "The Brother's Karamazov", although I consider "Crime and Punishment" to be a close second, and "The Possessed" (otherwise known as "The Devils") to be a wonderfully satiric third. I love "Tom Jones", "Pride and Prejudice", "Vanity Fair", "David Copperfield", "Huckleberry Finn", "Moby Dick", "Lord Jim", and "Jude the Obscure", among classic novels. I also have a high regard for "The Red and the Black", "Anna Karenina", "Fathers and Sons", "Madame Bovary", and other continental novels. "1984" means a lot to me, as does "Magister Ludi" (also known as "The Glass Bead Game"). I like Sinclair Lewis, especially "Babbit", but I am not so fond of Hemingway. I like Kafka, especially two short stories, "The Hunger Artist" and "Metamorphosis". I like Henry James very much, especially "The Ambassadors" and a short novel, "The Spoils of Poynton". I like "Ulysses" and "Portrait of the Artist", but for some reason I am not so fond of "Dubliners". I like E.M. Forster very much, and particularly recommend "A Passage to India" and "Howard's End". I thought Merchant/Ivory did justice to neither. I see I have gone on too long. Well, what the heck, I like thinking of things I like.......