Apr 25
It’s that time again. It’s time for me to try and make sense of the last five novels, and attempt to place them somewhere in my meaningless rankings. Never before has such a pointless, inconsequential act been undertaken.
Aren’t you excited now? All right, then. Let’s carry on.
So it’s time to dive in the wonderful world of my highly subjective and completely pointless rankings of the first 35 books I’ve read from the Time list.
If you’re interested, you can see previous updates through book 31: Never Let Me Go.
Now, to somehow justify my rankings for books 32-35.
Somehow I let this post slip by.
For newcomers, I usually stop and explain my latest rankings after each set of five books. Book #30 (Animal Farm) came and went and I totally forgot to recap. So today’s post is a quick explanation of my rankings for the last set of books (26-31).
Remember, these are my highly subjective and totally opinionated rankings of the first 31 novels.
Well, it’s that time again.
Time for me to justify my nonsensical, totally arbitrary, ridiculously-easy-to-criticize rankings of the books I’ve read to this point. Lev Grossman explained why Time didn’t rank the novels in my interview with him, but I guess the football fan in me decided I had to do rankings of some sort.
So, without further needless explanation, here’s my explanation of my rankings of the books I’ve read since my last ranking update.
Jul 12
Time to justify my rankings.
I update them after each book, but after every five novels I feel the need to explain myself—otherwise, I’d be like a college football coach voting in the coach’s poll (If you get that joke, raise your hand.) As always, you can see how I’ve ranked all 20 on My Rankings page.
So here goes my nonsensical explanations for books 16-20:
Apr 6
Well, it’s that time again. It’s time to justify my rankings.
Here’s the deal. I update my rankings after reading each book. You can always go to the My Rankings page to see where things stand in my biased and subjective mind.
After each set of five books, I’ll make a post that explains what in the world I was thinking. This is your opportunity to belittle me for my ignorance and obvious bias. I haven’t posted about the rankings since book #9, so I’ve got one extra ranking to justify this time. And here they are:
Feb 16
This was a tough call.
Immediately, I ruled out The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe as one of my top two. So, then, I’m left comparing it to Blood Meridian, currently the third book in my rankings.
Feb 11
You may or may not be aware that Time Magazine didn’t rank the books on their top 100 list. So, as I continue to barrel through these novels, I’m naturally inclined to compare them to each other. It’s human nature, I guess.
So here’s a new aspect of the blog. Henceforth, dear friends, I shall begin ranking these tomes. After I read each book, I’ll ask myself one question: Did I enjoy this book? That’s it. If I enjoyed the book, I’ll rank it high. If I hated it, or if I just didn’t like it as much, then I’ll rank it accordingly.
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