Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The UK Guardian: Top 100 books of all time...

-------moving forward, may be we should also ask a group of students
to vote on the best 100 best Professors in the World(or is it 100 best
Professors of all times?). When it comes round to the best Motor Park
Poet in the World(of all times), I know that I would have no rival. In
the meantime, I am busy at..........Arugo Motor Park Owerri of course.

-----------CAO(Best Motor Park Poet Of All Times)

On Jan 16, 4:23 am, kenneth harrow <har...@msu.edu> wrote:
> there are indeed books, different books, and lists.
> but no good lists.
> these canonical exercises are invidious, with senseless inclusions and
> exclusions.
> or, let's just face it, some people's tastes.
> tastes are ok; canonizing taste is idiotic
> what is the best food in the world? do you want to compare pepper soup
> with sukiyaki?
> ndole with enchiladas?
> well, try don quixote with the divine comedy. that's, let's see, beef
> cassoulet with poulet yassa.
> then you can compare fela with youssou ndour, and get your 100 best
> musicians
> that's jeboujdienne and egusi soup
>
> ken
>
> On 1/15/13 2:20 PM, OLUWATOYIN ADEPOJU wrote:
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> > As for the claim of /Don Quixote/ having the highest votes, I doubt if
> > those who voted have read the /Mahabharata/, the/ Ramayana /and the
> > /Divine Comedy /which are also in the list.
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> > The /Mahabharata /is an entire library and /Don Quixote/ cannot be in
> > the same class, I expect it would be like comparing a candle to the
> > sun. The /Divine Comedy/ is a fantastic cosmic vision yet rooted in
> > human experience that I would be very surprised if /Don Quixote/ is
> > able to match.
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> > Anyway, /Mahbharata/ and /Divine Comedy/, I expect , require much more
> > stamina to read than /Don Quixote /and I suspect the writers who did
> > the voting have not read those books or have not completed them as I
> > have not, nor I have read /Don Quixote/ either.
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> > Thanks
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> > toyin
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> > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Anunoby, Ogugua
> > <Anuno...@lincolnu.edu <mailto:Anuno...@lincolnu.edu>> wrote:
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> >     There are books. There are good books. There are great books. If
> >     this list was of  two, three, or more hundred books, many more
> >     books by more readers� favorite writers would make the list. Are
> >     all the books in this list worthy of inclusion? Yes would be a
> >     fair answer. The quality and diversity of selectors makes the list
> >     credible.
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> >     Would there have been a different list of books by a different
> >     bunch of selectors? Yes of course. Would  different  selection
> >     criteria, and quality and diversity of selectors have resulted in
> >     a different list of book? Probably yes.  Will there ever be a list
> >     of top books of all time that will satisfy all readers? I do not
> >     think so.
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> >     oa
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> >     *From:*usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
> >     <mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
> >     [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
> >     <mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>] *On Behalf Of
> >     *OLUWATOYIN ADEPOJU
> >     *Sent:* Monday, January 14, 2013 3:57 PM
> >     *To:* usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
> >     <mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
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> >     *Subject:* Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The UK Guardian: Top
> >     100 books of all time...
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> >     Very powerful books but they did not add /The Lord of the Rings/
> >     by J.R.R. Tolkien nor  the Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling.
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> >     I dont think its possible to discuss 20th-21st century
> >     world literature without those books.
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> >     toyin
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> >     On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Shola Adenekan
> >     <sholaadene...@gmail.com <mailto:sholaadene...@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> >     Lol! You are a tough customer! My favourite writer Ngugi didn't
> >     make the list either, and there's no Soyinka.
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> >     Perhaps, somebody should ask Africans to come up with their own
> >     list but I'm sure Naipaul will not make that list.
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> >     By the way, many Western liberals actually like Naipaul; he is
> >     very popular in Britain and the United States, for example. It is
> >     folks like me from the postcolonial world - Africans, Indians and
> >     West Indians - who are more likely to hate the man for what he
> >     thinks of us.
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> >     On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Ikhide <xoki...@yahoo.com
> >     <mailto:xoki...@yahoo.com>> wrote:
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> >         Oga Shola,
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> >         See me look trouble O! I am performing jimgbilations and
> >         oyokomations that my main man, Chinua Achebe's book is rightly
> >         celebrated for what it is - one of the best books ever ever
> >         ever written. I am happy with the list, but you know me na,
> >         never completely satisfied. I think one of Naipaul's books
> >         should have made that list. A House for Mr. Biswas. But Oga
> >         Shola, you know, all you woolly eyed liberals will not let
> >         that happen. You hate my man, Naipaul.
>
> >         #GodDeyLookUna
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> >         - Ikhide
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> >         *From:*Shola Adenekan <sholaadene...@gmail.com
> >         <mailto:sholaadene...@gmail.com>>
> >         *To:* usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
> >         <mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
> >         *Cc:* xoki...@yahoo.com <mailto:xoki...@yahoo.com>
> >         *Sent:* Monday, January 14, 2013 4:04 PM
> >         *Subject:* Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The UK Guardian:
> >         Top 100 books of all time...
>
> >         Oga Ikhide,
>
> >         The books were chosen by 'writers from all over the world',
> >         the same way that fellow footballers pick the world's best
> >         football (soccer) player. This is not a compilation by some
> >         frappucino-drinking, tofu-eating, organic chicken rearing,
> >         sandals-wearing and Kumbayah-singing wolly liberals!
>
> >         Shola
>
> >         On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:39 PM, John MBAKU <jmb...@weber.edu
> >         <mailto:jmb...@weber.edu>> wrote:
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> >         Things Fall Apart deserves to be on any list of the most
> >         important and influential books of all time, regardless of who
> >         puts the list together. Congratulations to Achebe and Nigeria.
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> >         JOHN MUKUM MBAKU, ESQ.
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> >         >>> Ikhide 01/14/13 12:51 PM >>>
>
> >         Check it out. Professor Chinua Achebe's Things fall Apart is
> >         on the list. VS Naipaul's book should have been on the list
> >         also. Liberals strike again. But it is a good list. I approve.
> >         *cycles away slowly*
>
> >        http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/may/08/books.booksnews
>
> >         - Ikhide
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