At a guess, because he hasn't read it? He's pretty up front about not having read every single enormously long novel that has ever been considered good.
I'd much prefer someone make a list of stuff they've actually read, with inevitable omissions, rather than including things they saw in other people's lists but haven't read themselves, in order to sound clever.
The extent to which I disagree with this ranking is palpable but my most important question is why is Moby Dick not here at all!
At a guess, because he hasn't read it? He's pretty up front about not having read every single enormously long novel that has ever been considered good.
I'd much prefer someone make a list of stuff they've actually read, with inevitable omissions, rather than including things they saw in other people's lists but haven't read themselves, in order to sound clever.
Spot on!