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Josef wrote: "Molly wrote: "Ah the stupidity of lists. You'll notice the Best and Worst lists are almost identical. "Yes, and I have more of a problem with the Worst Book List than this. People who put gr..."
Freaks and Geeks = best show ever!
Heather wrote: "Grant wrote: "Which 'Book of Mormon'??? There have been over 4,300 changes since the first book of Mormon."There have been no changes since it was first translated. We believe the Bible to be..."
She's correct. Ever since it was translated not even a single word was has been changed.
You can clearly see that a lot of people don't deserve to be on this site by looking at all the comments on this list. If you truly love books, how do you not spell correctly, or use the right grammar? If you read a lot, words will become you. Don't swear or use crude language, it shows that you are not a true book-lover, and you don't deserve to be on this sight. This sight is for book-lovers. If you want to use it to argue with people non-stop then go to Facebook, or somewhere else so you can leave people who truly love to read, and grow appreciation for books, alone to enjoy themselves.
Mayra wrote: "You can clearly see that a lot of people don't deserve to be on this sight by looking at all the comments on this list. If you truly love books, how do you not spell correctly, or use the right grammer..." I agree, but just to tell you you spelled site and grammar wrong.
The list is largely "pot-boiling" prose...faddish, trashy...only a few bright points.
Andrew wrote: "Mayra wrote: "You can clearly see that a lot of people don't deserve to be on this sight by looking at all the comments on this list. If you truly love books, how do you not spell correctly, or us..."Thanks, my spell check wasn't working.
Sawyer wrote: "Oh, by the way, Mayra, before you become too inflated with your own self-importance, you used "sight" incorrectly - "site" is the correct word. And you did misspell "grammer" - should be "grammar"..."I am not going to thank you, for you have said so with a grudging heart, and it counts as nothing. Can't you take time in your life to give praise, even when it's little? Or do you have to go on rambling everyone's mistakes? How do you propose the idea of me having self-importance? There was not one sentence I wrote that would propose such an idea to pop into the mind of even the most accomplished professor. I do believe that you were trying to make me angry, so I would be hypocritical to the statement I made. If you are looking for a fight (which I am quite sure you are) I am pleased to inform you that you won't get it from me.
You offended me, and if you have a good heart, should apologize. I'm a person. Don't treat people that way. I do however like your spunk, it shows that you are probably a very determined, and confident person, not afraid to express your opinion.
WHY is Twilight here? It's a good story but it's not really impressive in terms of writing, imagery, creativity, sub text, or any other things that make a novel truly special. It's just a bland story.
Jazmine, the best book you've read in your whole life? I can only hope you haven't read a lot and have sooooo many better books out there to find yet. :-)
JUST LOOKED THROUGH THE TOP 1000 AND NOT A C J SANSOM NOVEL ANY WHERE, THIS LIST MUST BE A JOKE, EVEN OTHER WRITERS HAVE HIGHLY RATED C J SANSOM AS A GREAT NOVELIST, SORRY TO BE RANTING ON ABOUT SANSOM BUT IF YOU DO GET CHANCE TO READ ONE OF HIS BOOKS YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHERE IN COMMING FROM.
I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve with the caps lock, mate. I have seen Sansom's books on the shelves, but have never felt particularly inclined to read about a period that doesn't interest me in a genre I don't exactly find riveting. I do know someone they'd be perfect for, though, so all is not lost.There are a lot of fantastic authors not really represented in this list, by the way. The likes of Conrad, Ishiguro and Woolf don't appear in the top 100, despite them all being brilliant writers; while the likes of Stephenie Meyer and Dan Brown are, if anything, over-represented, despite the fact that they can barely string a sentence together between them.
Most of the books here are also on the Worst Books of all Time list. Matter of taste...as mentioned say, Dan Brown....here? Not hardly so far as I'm concerned. This isn't exactly the list of all time, so to speak.
Peter wrote: "I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve with the caps lock, mate. I have seen Sansom's books on the shelves, but have never felt particularly inclined to read about a period that doesn't interes..."Peter wrote: "I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve with the caps lock, mate. I have seen Sansom's books on the shelves, but have never felt particularly inclined to read about a period that doesn't interes..."
sorry about the cap locks ,was not really concentrating, but yes you are right there is so called authors that leav a lot to be desiered, but back to sansom if you don't care for period thrillers then i suppose your right again they won't appeal to all, but i enjoyed the characters and the way they leapt out at you, but there again what do i know, its just what i like.
I'll probably pick up Dissolution if I can find it for cheap. I mightn't like the idea of a mystery set in Tudor times but good writing tends to speak for itself, so I'll give him a shot if only because I'm curious now. After all I was never particularly interested in the themes in any of my favourite authors' work until I actually started reading them...
i am annoyed with twilight too. i honestly think twilight wasn't that good, but i enjoyed it. i dont think it should be up here
The fact that Twilight is on this list makes me want to gouge someone's eyes out with a spoon. #4? Really? Give me a break.
The Bible is the best book on earth.It talks about everything - Life, Love, Self Control,etc.
I think its the Number One Book.
why is the bible number 3. seriously. NO.
nicola wrote: "proof that the truth is not democratic =/seriously, jane austen? errughhh."
ILOVE HER!!!
THE BIBLE REMAINS THE NUMBER ONE
I think kissed by an angel by elizabeth chandler should be on here. best book ever!
Seems rather odd to include religious texts in a 'best book ever' list.
Charonamandah wrote: "THE BIBLE REMAINS THE NUMBER ONE"Currently, its 7th.
Jazmine wrote: "Twilight is the best book I've read in my entire life! It is awemazing! I love the whole saga and Edward Cullen!"UGH! what a no-lifer
Hunger Games and The Giver- hands down the best I have ever read.
I liked Hunger Games. Didn't care for The Giver at all. Like I said, to each their own.
Do you not think Hunger Games seems far too similar to Battle Royale? Not that I've read it yet, but the synopsis does seem remarkably similar to Battle Royale really, and makes me think of all those horrid Americanised remakes of good Japanese horror films.
I'm not familiar with battle Royal. Just wondered, what if you didn't like the original Japanese films either?
Check it out... Apparently the book isn't very good (possibly to do with the translation) but the film is excellent, and the manga is supposed to be fantastic too, though I've yet to get my hands on any of it.I haven't actually found many Japanese or Korean films that I dislike, to be honest. I think maybe Into the Mirror was one of the worse ones I've seen, but I still found it superior to its American remake (Mirrors). It could be that I always try to watch the original first so I'm less amazed by the American version, but I always feel like they're much tamer than the originals.
If I ever just didn't like an Asian film, I probably wouldn't even bother with the remake. As it is, I tend only to see the remakes because I'm a complete masochist when it comes to things like this.
It's mostly that the most frequent remakes lately are the horror films and I'm not much of a fan of horror films (in general) no matter where they're made. I occasional see some Asian films with sub-titles, but if I do it's usually an action or historical-fiction type flick.
ODYSSEYA - An Epic Journey from Russia to Australia ISBN 978-0-646-48901-8
If you are after a page-turning, chair gripping, novel by a new or unknown author, you will love --
ODYSSEYA -- An Epic Journey: From Russia to Australia
A breathtaking biography of a gripping and moving Australian immigrant saga set against the backdrop of ancient and modern Russian history.
Here is what the first assessor said about the book (I wish the person's name was revealed to me)
The author provides an excellent and broad ranging history of the seemingly small events, complex manoeuvres and political shifts that developed and set Russian history and therefore its people in their place as an invariably over-Romanticised often misunderstood, regularly feared and always suffering and highly developed people. Within this vast backdrop the author follows the twists and turns of his own inheritance, his family's exodus out of Russia, their lives moving through the extraordinary societal hierarchies of pre-war China and finally a lively account of their settling in Australia.
As such this is a well written and beautifully paced account. What sets it apart from the general personal accounts of what it is to leave one's country and take up a life in another, far from ones roots, is its well-read author's attention to detail. The writing is often so well balanced that the author is able to intimate the breathtaking history of the Russian people in a way that is always engaging and regularly fascinating. Vassilieff provides readers with some extraordinary anthropologically drawn detail without losing them in too much data. He reproduces some of the finest poetry and images of Russian and Chinese art and uses these to evoke or define his points and to raise the writing to the highest level. The reader appreciated the detail and the story held them from the opening chapter to the end. It is a story at once contemporary and reflective of the vast developments that occur in history. The author shows how human beings can rise and fall on the turn of a political card. The book resonates with life, recriminations are kept to the minimum and yet there is always enough to gather between the lines to allow for reflection.
book's 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 should be harry potter book's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And where does Jeff Stones books come in? NOWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Plus the #1 book come on to kill a mocking bird?this list is USELESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JEG
Actually...just to give you a view of things....I would place To Kill a Mockingbird as #1 novel. And while I like Harry Potter...the best books of all time???? Come on. But as I've said, it's all a matter of taste. To each their own.
The Harry Potter series is fun to read, but fantasy can rarely be taken seriously considering its nature. Plus, religious folks aren't too happy with it.
Sorry, again...I'm a Christian (and ordained assistant minister and everything) and if you look at my reading list I'd bet at least half of it is fantasy. I would put The Lord of the Rings on a best novels of all time list. I doubt there are many broad rules. Some, like I'd hope porno would not be a favorite among most religious folks (depending on the religion I suppose), but like I've said on a couple of sights we're all different. I suppose we all come here to communicate with other bibliophiles and then we need to find others with similar tastes.:-)
By the way I like the Harry Potter books, I'd just put them down the list from the top a little more. They are well written, but best of all time your looking at a lot of classics there.
Yeah, but just because they are "classics", dosent mean that they are better than twenty first century novels.
"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone." Letter to Joseph Twichell, 9/13/1898"
— Mark Twain
Mark Twain was a very wise man.
I was not saying that ALL classics are good..I was only saying that to be on top of the list Harry Potter has a lot of competition. I'm sorry (hear that in a friendly yet strident voice please) but as much as I like the Potter books they are not the greatest books of all time. That was my only point. I don't like all classics either. Dostoevsky for example, I really wanted to like The Idiot (I wonder if there's some deeper meaning there?) anyway I really wanted to like this and others of his work. Or Tolstoy, War and Peace dose end with a couple finding each other and possibly finding love...in their sorrow from their earlier PAIN. Death betrayal...on a grand scale.Actually, I've come to the conclusion that a happy ending in most Russian novels is where everybody dies quickly and doesn't suffer.
In this family memoir, anecdotes of hope and courage enliven the bleak backdrop of war and deprivation… the family’s belief in one another and their promising future, despite volatile political events and the necessity of starting over—again and again.— Kirkus Discoveries N Y
As I've said, to each their own.
Mike, can you be more specific. What do you mean by the motherhood statement - "As I've said, to each their own"?
(Looks blank and then smiles) My only point was that what one person likes another person may hate... There are books I've read (Of Mice and Men for example) that I can't really understand anyone using the word "enjoy" to describe the experience (of reading the given book that is). But they do. Just as I love certain books that some of my friends find incomprehensible (I have a friend whom I've discussed books with for years but she just can't get into The Lord of the Rings, one of my favorite reads.)
ugh! another comment about people not arguing! THAT IS THE POINT OF THESE COMMENTS! WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD!!!