Comments on: Classic Books of the Ages http://www.lonegunman.co.uk/2008/09/04/classic-books-of-the-ages/ Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:29:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lloyd Morgan http://www.lonegunman.co.uk/2008/09/04/classic-books-of-the-ages/comment-page-1/#comment-670 Lloyd Morgan Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:48:21 +0000 http://www.lonegunman.co.uk/?p=315#comment-670 I can't agree more. What we may all one day class as the defining book of the 80s or 90s has undoubtedly not been written. If it has, I'll be surprised. For now all we can do is choose from those that are. As you say; looking at lists such as this, it's the exception, not the rule, that books that typify a decade or generation were written during it. I can’t agree more. What we may all one day class as the defining book of the 80s or 90s has undoubtedly not been written. If it has, I’ll be surprised. For now all we can do is choose from those that are.

As you say; looking at lists such as this, it’s the exception, not the rule, that books that typify a decade or generation were written during it.

]]> By: nicole http://www.lonegunman.co.uk/2008/09/04/classic-books-of-the-ages/comment-page-1/#comment-669 nicole Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:19:53 +0000 http://www.lonegunman.co.uk/?p=315#comment-669 I like your pick of Trainspotting—even though it is very UK, heroin and HIV were major cultural issues in the US at the same time and I think a lot of it translates well to US life. I said yesterday I felt it was hard for me to get the right perspective on those decades to choose books; I have been thinking also that writers don't yet have the perspective either. The Red Badge of Courage was written thirty years after the end of the Civil War; The Scarlet Letter centuries after the time it portrays. We may be waiting a while for the "real" quintessential 80s and 90s books. I like your pick of Trainspotting—even though it is very UK, heroin and HIV were major cultural issues in the US at the same time and I think a lot of it translates well to US life.

I said yesterday I felt it was hard for me to get the right perspective on those decades to choose books; I have been thinking also that writers don’t yet have the perspective either. The Red Badge of Courage was written thirty years after the end of the Civil War; The Scarlet Letter centuries after the time it portrays. We may be waiting a while for the “real” quintessential 80s and 90s books.

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