Comments on Best Books Ever - page 73

Oh god...50 Shades of Gray is on here...

how are is the catcher in the rye not top 10? not even top 50???
all these teenage aimed books at the top???? TWILIGHT?????? what is this

I cannot take this list seriously with The Hunger Games sitting at #1

twilight? seriously?!

I really do think that this list should be renamed into "Shitlist". That way it would at least be honest.

Andrey wrote: "I really do think that this list should be renamed into "Shitlist". That way it would at least be honest."

I beg to disagree.

But renaming it "Popular" would be rather fair.

See, there are lots of very good books on this list, only, for some weird reason, they do not make it to the top... And it would seem few users are patient enough (or have time enough) to scroll down to the very end of the list. It took me a few weeks...

Dodo wrote: "Andrey wrote: "I really do think that this list should be renamed into "Shitlist". That way it would at least be honest."

I beg to disagree.

But renaming it "Popular" would be rather fair.

See, ..."

Yes, occasionally eye catches a good book in this list. But I believe that a list, 90% of which is a total garbage, can rightfully be called shitty.

I hope some of Kimberley Griffiths Little's books are on there because I got bored when I got to Book #50.

Kayla wrote: "I hope some of Kimberley Griffiths Little's books are on there because I got bored when I got to Book #50."

Kayla, my books just got added to the list! You can go vote for them now. :-) Probably doing a search for the title is easiest because this is a HUGE list.

I think once one gets past the top twenty five or so, the results become interesting.

For an experienced reader, they become interesting past the top thousand or so. :D

I feel like this list more accurately reflects the main demographic of users on this website rather than the literary quality of these books.

This is not an accurate representation of literary achievement, regardless of how relative the topic is.

Twilight and Harry Potter are on this list? You have got to be kidding me.

Wuthering Heights is on the list twice, #46 and #54.

Thanks for spotting it! I ran the "check for duplicates" function, and now there's only one _Wuthering Heights_, at #11.

The comments on this list are so repetitive it's ridiculous.

Try reading only those that are longer than 3 lines. ;)

Where are all of the Harry Potter books?
Left Behind! Percy Jackson! Heroes of Olympus!
Kane Chronicles! Narnia! At least they got the Giver!

Darn! What is one of those Gray books doing in the Top 100?

... Oh. It's The Picture of Dorian Gray.

:D

Damion wrote: "Where are all of the Harry Potter books?
Left Behind! Percy Jackson! Heroes of Olympus!
Kane Chronicles! Narnia! At least they got the Giver!"

You probably didn't read the previous comments, but this list has been extremely tampered with and abused. Someone arbitrarily decided each author could only have one book on the list--and deleted all the rest. They also switched the description to fiction only, apparently because people were offended by the high rankings of religious books like the Bible. After altering the description, they cleansed it of all nonfiction. These meddlings were reversed but it takes a while to build back those votes. I am certain that C S Lewis and J K Rowling were among the casualties.

hunger games #1!!!???
I suppose I ain't the only one
ok, it's good; deserves #238 I believe
FOR GOD,S SAKE WHERE,S GODFATHER??

How is TWILIGHT on this list?? And on no.4 too?? I thought this was a list of BEST books EVER not some list of best high school romances.

Hello Is this really Best books ever And who choosed ؟؟ I'm new here

What is your problem With Twilight Why Hate this book Like an enemy To you I have read this book It was amazing There it A lot of real Feelings It was a great book And entered his world And I loved Vampires Because of him I fell in love with I'm not Teenager People have different opinions It really deserves to be on the list

Noura wrote: "What is your problem With Twilight Why Hate this book Like an enemy To you I have read this book It was amazing There it A lot of real Feelings It was a great book And entered his world And I loved..."

I don't hate twilight and have got nothing against it. But it's MY opinion that it didn't deserve no.4 spot on this list. Books like A Thousand Splendid Suns among others also have 'real feelings' and 'real issues' but placed much below Twilight which they didn't deserve.

I don't hate twilight and have got nothing against it. But it's MY opinion that it didn't deserve no.4 spot on this list. Books like A Thousand Splendid Suns among others also have 'real feelings' and 'real issues' but placed much below Twilight which they didn't deserve.

If you do not want That these books remain on the list Someone else wants The books remain in the list Why are found on the list if Probably there are a lot Voice of these books So it is in In the introduction to the list

Noura wrote: "I don't hate twilight and have got nothing against it. But it's MY opinion that it didn't deserve no.4 spot on this list. Books like A Thousand Splendid Suns among others also have 'real feelings' ..."

I repeat it is MY opinion that it doesn't deserve no.4 spot which many before me have commented and agreed upon. Can't I express my views? I told you I've got nothing against the books. But yeah is this 'voice' you're talking about that part when Bella is depressed for solid 5 months and inflicting self-harm to get 'close' to her bf or the part where 18yr olds get pregnant. Or where she is constantly obsessed about her ageing and wrinkles.

What the fuck

I repeat it is MY opinion that it doesn't deserve no.4 spot which many before me have commented and agreed upon. Can't I express my views? I told you I've got nothing against the books. But yeah is this 'voice' you're talking about that part when Bella is depressed for solid 5 months and inflicting self-harm to get 'close' to her bf or the part where 18yr olds get pregnant. Or where she is constantly obsessed about her ageing and wrinkles.


Well what are the books that deserve to remain on the list???

A book with only 7 ratings has 4,113 votes. Almost all of these are by profiles with 0 friends and 0 or 1 book (this book). Looks like someone has rigged things to get this book into the top 100.

Really ??? I do not think so You know that Twilight has sold millions of books and It is in the list of best selling book in the world There are millions of people who love this book around the world So how to Link the pinnacle of success and fame I think that these fans They are to vote Nobody The fraud

Noura wrote: "I repeat it is MY opinion that it doesn't deserve no.4 spot which many before me have commented and agreed upon. Can't I express my views? I told you I've got nothing against the books. But yeah is..."

I'm just talking about it getting no.4 spot as opposed to so many other books. I have no problem with it being on this list.

Shaisha wrote: "Noura wrote: "I repeat it is MY opinion that it doesn't deserve no.4 spot which many before me have commented and agreed upon. Can't I express my views? I told you I've got nothing against the book..."

You like this book and think it's okay being where it is. Even I like this book and it has got some really nice elements but I just didn't feel it okay for 4th spot. I respect your opinion. That's it.

Noura wrote: "Really ??? I do not think so You know that Twilight has sold millions of books and It is in the list of best selling book in the world There are millions of people who love this book around the wor..."

But if to you it's the best book EVER written I think you should read a little more..
There's a difference between loving a book and considering it a classic piece of literature worthy to be read by all age groups and all genders.

Hunger games is on top.Twilight makes top 10. What a joke of a list.

But if to you it's the best book EVER written I think you should read a little more..
There's a difference between loving a book and considering it a classic piece of literature worthy to be read by all age groups and all genders.


I read a lot of books but not novels Because I was hate novels But Twilight is the only novel that I loved her I do not know maybe I liked the way the narrative Book I am sure You do not consider this novel That bad

Bruce wrote: "Fut the Whack? It's the EMO of literature! It's pop garbage with no depth!..."


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Kate wrote: "I love lists. I make at least one a day. :)"
Kate, there is a song from the early 80s about a girl "with a thousand lists". Maybe the fab singer of "Mickey"?? Anyway, had a music flashback when I read your comment, a nice one, great way to start the day! Thx!

The title of this list should be "Favorite Books Ever." My current favorite book ever is "The Art of Fielding" but is that the best book ever? I've not read any of Dostoevsky, or Homer, and have only touched upon authors who don't write in English, so I can't say. Oh, and now that I think about it, maybe the title of this list should be "Favorite Books Ever Originally Written in English." But that's not a fun title, and the whole point here is to have fun and love reading. We are not paid, professional critics after all.

Manaswin wrote: "Hunger games is on top.Twilight makes top 10. What a joke of a list."

I agree with you completely.

oh my god .-.

How in the world is the Hunger Games above J R R Tolkien's works? Sacrilege! But I am glad To Kill a Mockingbird is up there, that's a very good book.

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Is it weird that all these books are movies as well?

Amber wrote: "This list is a joke!"

Tell me about it... how the hell is The Hunger Games and Twilight in the top ten, but greats such as Nineteen Eighty-Four aren't even in the top one-thousand?

How is The Hunger Games worse--or any less relevant--than 1984?

Kalin wrote: "How is The Hunger Games worse--or any less relevant--than 1984?"

You're joking... right? Nineteen Eighty-Four was revolutionary. The Hunger Games ripped off various other novels (and films) and added a cheesy, tween romance. It hardly deserves to be in the top ten, especially if Nineteen Eighty-Four isn't even in the top one-thousand.

James wrote: "You're joking... right?


I do not think Kalin is joking. I suspect he might be testing...

It is difficult to answer a question about a book being worse/better or more/less relevant than another book. To answer properly, one might have to write an exhaustive monograph.

My answer to Kalin`s question would run, more or less, like that:

Some books have a soul, and some books have no soul. 1984 does have a soul, bleeding though it might be...

Thank you, Dodo. :) The "soul" aspect of a book deserves another monograph, which I definitely can't start now. :)

"Relevant" was the real focus of my question. ("Better" and "worse", to me, are "godwords": they can mean everything and nothing.) One of the key things that I look for in a book is what it has to show us about the world we live in--or, in the case of these two particular novels, the world we may yet have to deal with.

1984 was revolutionary, all right. Is it still so? Are its messages as needed to contemporary readers as those of The Hunger Games? Do its characters speak so eloquently to young people today--who will be tomorrow's adults? Which of the two futures are they more likely to face--as a metaphor or for real?

The fundamental issue here perhaps is: do we agree that this list reflects the tastes and needs of today's readers--not of humankind over the ages?