http://dagblog.com/link/top-ten-new-yorker-stories-2012-15880 Comments for "The Top Ten New Yorker Stories of 2012 " en http://dagblog.com/comment/172204#comment-172204 <a id="comment-172204"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/172197#comment-172197">and The Hundred Best Lists of</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Followed a link from your link to <a href="http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/">The Modern Library's list of 100 Best Novels</a> just to see how many of them I have read.  Pleasantly surprised that I knew most but definitely not all.  </p> <p>I like that they showed their Top 100 side by side with their readers' Top 100.  Their readers' top ten were not surprising individually but collectively kind of alarming.  Yikes!</p> <p> </p> <ol style="margin-top: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 30px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(236, 232, 222);"><li style="padding: 6px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 235, 230); border-bottom-style: solid; list-style: decimal !important;"> <strong style="display: block;">ATLAS </strong><strong style="display: block;">SHRUGGED</strong>by Ayn Rand</li> <li class="alt" style="padding: 6px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 235, 230); border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(251, 249, 246); list-style: decimal !important;"> <strong style="display: block;">THE </strong><strong style="display: block;">FOUNTAINHEAD</strong>by Ayn Rand</li> <li style="padding: 6px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 235, 230); border-bottom-style: solid; list-style: decimal !important;"> <strong style="display: block;">BATTLEFIELD </strong><strong style="display: block;">EARTH</strong>by L. Ron Hubbard</li> <li class="alt" style="padding: 6px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 235, 230); border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(251, 249, 246); list-style: decimal !important;"> <strong style="display: block;">THE LORD OF THE </strong><strong style="display: block;">RINGS</strong>by J.R.R. Tolkien</li> <li style="padding: 6px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 235, 230); border-bottom-style: solid; list-style: decimal !important;"> <strong style="display: block;">TO KILL A </strong><strong style="display: block;">MOCKINGBIRD</strong>by Harper Lee</li> <li class="alt" style="padding: 6px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 235, 230); border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(251, 249, 246); list-style: decimal !important;"> <strong style="display: block;">1984</strong>by George Orwell</li> <li style="padding: 6px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 235, 230); border-bottom-style: solid; list-style: decimal !important;"> <strong style="display: block;">ANTHEM</strong>by Ayn Rand</li> <li class="alt" style="padding: 6px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 235, 230); border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(251, 249, 246); list-style: decimal !important;"> <strong style="display: block;">WE THE </strong><strong style="display: block;">LIVING</strong>by Ayn Rand</li> <li style="padding: 6px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 235, 230); border-bottom-style: solid; list-style: decimal !important;"> <strong style="display: block;">MISSION </strong><strong style="display: block;">EARTH</strong>by L. Ron Hubbard</li> <li class="alt" style="padding: 6px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 235, 230); border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(251, 249, 246); list-style: decimal !important;"> <strong style="display: block;">FEAR</strong>by L. Ron Hubbard</li> </ol><p class="alt" style="padding: 6px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 235, 230); border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(251, 249, 246); list-style: decimal !important;">Thanks, I guess.</p> <p class="alt" style="padding: 6px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 235, 230); border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: rgb(251, 249, 246); list-style: decimal !important;"> </p> </div></div></div> Wed, 26 Dec 2012 23:07:05 +0000 EmmaZahn comment 172204 at http://dagblog.com http://dagblog.com/comment/172197#comment-172197 <a id="comment-172197"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/top-ten-new-yorker-stories-2012-15880">The Top Ten New Yorker Stories of 2012 </a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>and <em><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2012/12/the-hundred-best-lists-of-all-time.html">The Hundred Best Lists of All Time</a></em> <img alt="cheeky" height="20" src="http://dagblog.com/modules/ckeditor/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/tounge_smile.gif" title="cheeky" width="20" /></p> </div></div></div> Wed, 26 Dec 2012 21:30:35 +0000 artappraiser comment 172197 at http://dagblog.com