The winner of last week's Great Wednesday Compare (Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harper Lee), with a final score of 17-5 (or maybe 16-6- sorry, Elzey, I didn't get your reference!), was Harper Lee.A while ago Jane Austen seemed to have similarly strong support as Harper Lee had last week. Coincidentally, I hadn't read Austen at the time and I haven't read Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird either. I know it was compulsory reading in many high schools across the U.S. and even Canada, but it wasn't at my school. I have, however, read War and Peace.
At the risk of setting off another Cold War (because I have delusions of grandeur like that)...
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Who's better?
18 comments:
Whoa! Tolstoy. Just for the sheer volume.
Oh oh - I love both these authors! But, I will give the edge to Tolstoy. He is one of the great ones - and War and Peace is among my favorites of all time.
Urgh, this is actually a tough call for me, but after much thought I'm going with Harper Lee.
Gota go with Harper Lee. I adore To Kill A Mockingbird, and Anna Karenina is one of the few books I just couldn't get through.
Lord. What a choice...this is a tough one!! Gotta go with Harper Lee though.
I'm going to close my eyes and grit my teeth and say "Tolstoy," even though I personally enjoyed To Kill a Mockingbird more than the ponderous chunks of Tolstoy I have read and given up on. Lee created an admirable fictional hero in Atticus Finch, but Tolstoy's ideas about nonviolent resistance inspired real heroes like Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I can't decide this week. Pass!
Oh, I can finally vote this week. Tough, but Harper Lee.
This is a tough choice. While I loves me some Soviet era authors, Tolstoy has never been a real draw for me. Too long and ponderous, or perhaps I'm just lazy.
So I think I'll go with Lee again.
I'm going with Harper Lee.
In honor of the fact that I just bought the new translation of War and Peace last Sunday afternoon, I'm going to go with Mr. Tolstoy.
Sam: I heard about that new translation and I must admit I'm curious, though taking on something that lengthy again (as much as I enjoyed it before) will take a lot of encouragement. Did you read it before, in another translation?
I've never been able to get through Tolstoy so I'll stick with Harper Lee.
I love Harper Lee, but for his body of work and immense literary stature, I'll vote for Tolstoy this week.
No, John, I've never made it all the way through War and Peace. The only time that I made a real effort to read it, I was reading a copy with such small print that my eyes couldn't take it. I put the book aside years ago with plans to buy a better copy...and this one is just simply beautiful. It's huge, heavy, and very easy on the eye. Maybe I'll make it through this time.
Leo Tolstoy, though Harper Lee is a strong contender.
Quite a tough one...I am going to have to go with Tolstoy, for the details and the sheer breadth of his work.
Since there is a tie, I'm casting my vote for Tolstoy. Voting is now closed.
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