Best Books discussion
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Apr 24, 2007 04:18AM
I gladly start the discussion here and ask for your views: what is the definition of a Good Book to you? If its the book that we keep or what motivates us or I do not know. I think its mixed personal and technical. I am not sure what you think but come up with some ideas and we might shape something useful out of it.
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From my point of view a defining a good book is dependant to the field of study. As an instance what we expect from a good mathematical book is different from what we do from a book in the field of linguistic.
But I think a general good book must be something new, something different.


Some of these Best books have lived with me all entire my life, and frankly, even when I was reading them for the first time, sometimes, I put them aside in order to think, digest, and criticize (Maryam and I have different opinions on this subject)
I’d like to invite you all to discuss about your favorites. Iman’s comment is a good idea to get “the field of study” as a start point.
I’d be more than happy to have discussions in some of my beloved areas: Children literature, novels (especially detective-), short stories, and poetry.
I’d like invite the moderator as well, to explain a bit more about her initial idea!


But that doesn't mean I don't recognize literary quality when I see it. Even though there is something that can't be shared every time I pick up a book, there is also something that can, and for that reason I think it's possible to at least outline what good books are and what they aren't, even if we can never fill in the outline completely.

for example on the shoot of Modern-Post Modern stories, we can review, introduce n critisize related books. n this goes for other branches,too.
in this way we keep the variety n also the respect for different styles (which is notable reagrding to the meaning of the "Good Book")

For excample, in poetry a good book im my opinion may be a rubbish one in yours and vise versa.
I think it's because of this fact that we are different in many aspects.Every single one of us has his own ideas, perspectives, interests,...and all of this can affect our definition of a good book, so my description of a good book would be alot different from yours.

Oh dear Conrad, I know what you mean but it's ok, I just can't understand where's the problem?! none of us is going to force the others to accept a book as a good one or a bad one.
But Leila's mentioned a noticeable point too. But I think such differences between ideas is good coz brings discussion and can help us to see probable unnoticed aspects of a book.
I think what our dear friend Abnoos has suggested is the best way. I think Someone should specify a field and then everyone intoduce his/her candidates as the Best books in the pre-specified field. And then we can do the same for another branch.
I think we should leave this duty to the moderator's hand to select the fields one after another.


