Let me take a wild guess. Books without movie clips were disqualified.

@technoswitch3296

4 жыл бұрын

LMAO

@warrenpuckett4203

4 жыл бұрын

I am more into ones like "A Boy and His Dog" from a graphic novel by Harlan Ellison. My kind of comedy. I read a lot besides those "recommended" and required for English classes. I also read "The Thirty Years that Shook Physics" by Gamov. Of course that was not required or suggested.

@ulyssesjoyce7734

4 жыл бұрын

I agree. Movie clips could've been shown now and then, not most of the time..

@snoopy8481

4 жыл бұрын

😁😁

@iseekq

4 жыл бұрын

MIke MIhaljevich I was thinking the same about their judgement. Why wasn’t The Master and Margarita on the list. An absolute masterpiece and no sign of it. Pfffft!

This should really be called "Ten Books Senior American High School Kids Have Heard About [ and probably not actually read]"

@RadinV1

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@mandalorianscum1138

4 жыл бұрын

Few have read Moby Dick, Anna Karinena or war and peace! Those books can kill you! 😂😂😂 i'm a survivor of all three, but it was a struggle!

@lisamichels1825

4 жыл бұрын

Ha ha you are correct!

@nicholasreid1836

4 жыл бұрын

@@mandalorianscum1138 I have read two of these three masterpieces. Excellent books. One simply has to get used to reading works for grown-ups.

@mandalorianscum1138

4 жыл бұрын

@@nicholasreid1836 i don't read annything else, i love to chalenge myself!

Any attempt to select the top ten novels of all time, without breaking literary works into different categories, is, in my opinion, far too ambitious a quest.

@edtheman28

4 жыл бұрын

Indubitably

@robertwill23

4 жыл бұрын

What categories are those exactly? You suggest calling War and Peace epic war novel and Catcher in the Rye to b categorized as Bildungsroman Coming of age type? That's too neurotic. It is for genre fiction. Not for literary fiction.

@pookypoo1169

4 жыл бұрын

True

@jamesalexander5623

4 жыл бұрын

No .... It's Stewpid!

@giahunggiang1797

3 жыл бұрын

A highschool knows "In search of the lost time"? HAHAHAHA xD

There’s no way to sum up the top ten greatest novels of all time. It’s just not possible. There are too many books out there, too many classics especially.

@carolfromhr9900

4 жыл бұрын

Hell, it would be too hard a task for me to even pick ONE novel as my favorite.

@David-se5ph

4 жыл бұрын

This should be a top 20 list

@wisco9er536

4 жыл бұрын

@@David-se5ph top 20, but with ties available

@davidbowman4259

4 жыл бұрын

Agree.

@David-se5ph

4 жыл бұрын

Wisco9er yep .

Everyone is complaining that their favorite book isn't on the list but honestly making a top 10 books of all time list is simply imposible. It should really be top 10 thousand.

@paulrichardson5892

8 жыл бұрын

+jjjjjjjjjj11ify i agree.

@DevoMaxicus

8 жыл бұрын

Surely everyone's own top ten book of all time is a snapshot that won't last long, new books added, older ones remembered after the first list was drawn up, favorite themes and plots and characters shifting as our lives develop. Variety is the spice of life, and man and woman don't live by ten books alone.

@milkshakes7758

7 жыл бұрын

exactly

@edbarros3504

7 жыл бұрын

I agree, but this list is horrible

@paulrichardson5892

7 жыл бұрын

i agree too. everyone has a different view. I tend to rank the classic books in my top ten. They stand the test of time. Also societal values change fashions come and go. some books are deeper than others, Some are landmarks others are entertainment.My top two ,simply for quality of the prose are war and peace and wuthering heights. many will disagree but for me those rate. good luck with any top ten

Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment deserves a listing.

@saulgoodmanbrah

7 жыл бұрын

Ikr

@vozamaraktv-art5595

7 жыл бұрын

So true! Such an unfair list, not even ann honourable mention of Crime and Punishment, but they included Moby Dick? Give me a break!

@zanerosenbaum3015

5 жыл бұрын

Brother Karamotzov does but not crime and punishment, it offers much less

@flavio7180

4 жыл бұрын

Shine Joy Moby Dick is fantastic, don’t know why you’re mad but I agree other than that.

@noahi.1381

4 жыл бұрын

Well, this video is American

The Picture of Dorian Gray...

@huntrrams

4 жыл бұрын

That book was great

My personal list: 10- The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 9- Penpal - Dathan Auerbach 8- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 7- The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton 6- Going Bovine - Libba Bray 5- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald 4- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 3- 1984 - George Orwell 2- The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien 1- The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

@jackoconnor4303

4 жыл бұрын

Nice list

@misterpro8738

4 жыл бұрын

Jack O'Connor Thanks

@waldoabrysh3913

2 жыл бұрын

The outsiders should be number one

@zebulynnhanson791

Жыл бұрын

💯

@conradjones3507

Жыл бұрын

10. 1984 9. The Catcher and the Rye 8. Of Mice and Men 7. Grapes of Wrath 6. Death In the Afternoon 5. For whom the Bell Tolls 4. Fried Green Tomatoes At the Whistle Stop Cafe 3. To Kill a Mockingbird 2. The Book Thief 1. East Of Eden This is my personal favorites not the best

Because it's not the greatest novel of all time if it's not made into a movie

@spencer1531

7 жыл бұрын

Most classics where adapted to movies. It's not like they are discriminating.

@jizanthapus3099

7 жыл бұрын

Nayan D'Souza the Catcher in the rye has never been made into a movie and never will because the author hated movies and refused letting anyone have the rights to it even after he dies.

@daynaholgate4839

4 жыл бұрын

Spencer Not every book needs to be a movie 🙄

The Brothers Karamazov? Not even an honorable mention?

@SP990

6 жыл бұрын

Why do they even try😶

@ScottADeJong

6 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. I don't know how someone could possibly exclude that from a list of the best/most important novels of all time. I can only imagine they haven't read it.

@SuperAngelofglory

6 жыл бұрын

or "Les Miserables"

@kathrynhaught630

5 жыл бұрын

I thought that too.

@sonyatnp5778

5 жыл бұрын

as a Russian, I am really impressed that Dostoevsky is so popular. That is great)

People too often use “greatest” and “my favorite” interchangeably. These two categories are definitely not synonyms.

The Sound and the Fury Ulysses Crime and Punishment Brothers Karamazov The Trial

@awhyte55

4 жыл бұрын

Ulysses is suspiciously absent. Crime and Punishment should also be in the Top Ten.

@lawrencesumblin3325

4 жыл бұрын

Great list.

@jamesaritchie1

4 жыл бұрын

Otherwise known as "five books you've never read".

@BartasRapowanie

4 жыл бұрын

Not a one book by hemingway No catch 22 1984 is a fucking honorable mention Also fucking draculla maybe?

@Octavio12341000

4 жыл бұрын

Many people have told me that Ulysses is very difficult to read. Is that true?

Top ten novels is like saying " Who is your favorite child?" But I am disappointed that Victor Hugo isn't on the list. Either "Les Miserables" or "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". Dostoyevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" is a great read. No Bronte on the list, either?

@Byakkun06

8 жыл бұрын

Oh God !!! All those books are from my all time favourite, I didn't think people like you still exist, you saved me, thanks :D

@hannahmoran2149

7 жыл бұрын

"Les Miserables" is absolutely in my top 10, maybe even top 5 books of all time. However, I've never actually read "The Brothers Karamozov".

@jawharali

7 жыл бұрын

The Brother Karmazove is the best piece of litrature in human history.

@edbarros3504

7 жыл бұрын

I adore Lolita and To Kill Mockinbird, but I don't think they deserve to be on the list.

@SublimeSati

7 жыл бұрын

The epitome of a Russian Novel. Gotta be in any top 10 list.

I feel like watchmojo produce videos like this to provoke people to click on the video and get views. How can you possibly rank something like this? At LEAST, you can break it down by the decade like you did with the movie list. This is ridiculous.

@WatchMojo

9 жыл бұрын

We ranked dictators. You find THIS ridiculous? ;) Signed Mr X

@sleepful1917

9 жыл бұрын

WatchMojo.com not to mention sandwhiches

@interista10100

9 жыл бұрын

WatchMojo.com You're right. Basically everything you guys do is idiotic. This is just an example of that.

@jqckthewolf1513

9 жыл бұрын

LOTR not on this bullshit to the highest degree hang them or at least the hobbit and you signing everything is annoying

@NARKISDUDE

9 жыл бұрын

WatchMojo.com hey he just gave you another series.

It was unfair not including any of Dostoyevsky's works 🤷

@weirdguy4948

3 жыл бұрын

Bet you haven’t even read either of them

@saptorshighosh1049

3 жыл бұрын

@@weirdguy4948 i didn't even know I had 25 likes on this one till you made your baseless assumption, thanks man.

@josephkoepke1251

3 жыл бұрын

@@saptorshighosh1049 and to put Anna Karenina #1? That book is overrated as hell. Its a culture piece drowned in metaphor. You can identify with Dostoyevsky's Raskolnikov, Alyosha, and the Underground man from Notes from Underground. Those characters were interesting and made you think. I was 200 pages into Anna Karenina and was like "CAN THIS BITCH DIE ALREADY?!" I know I'm smacking a historical "classic" in the face, but Tolstoy couldn't hold a candle to Dostoyevsky.

@bugle1100

8 күн бұрын

Big Dostoevsky fan, but he actually acknowledged Anna Karenina was a great novel. But I don’t see how Crime and Punishment or Brothers Karamazov don’t make the list.

Top ten books with movies I can use to keep audience attention

You can't simply do a list like this and not mention Animal Farm...

@joewilson2929

9 жыл бұрын

MetaphorInVain I liked 1984 more but ya. Wheres the Orwell?

@blutackguy

9 жыл бұрын

YEAH! WHERE'S ANIMAL FARM???!!!

@soby26

9 жыл бұрын

I do agree that Animal Farm is great, but it is more of a novella than a novel.

@NightOwlReader2790

9 жыл бұрын

Implantedclub If that was intend as an insult, I don't think anyone will get offended by that. Animal Farm is a really good book.

@plazasta

9 жыл бұрын

well they mentioned a similar book by the same author (1984)

I know this list must have been hard to make, but Charles Dickens is seriously only an honorable mention?! The man practically gave birth to the modern novel! A Tale of Two Cities is my favorite novel of all time personally. And no Steinbeck either? Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath are masterpieces! And, also, Crime and Punishment deserves a high spot on this list. Talk about a novel with an incredibly thought-provoking social conscience and profundity. And lastly, I was forced to read Madame Bovary in tenth grade, and after reading a bunch of classic literature, I can firmly say that that sad excuse for a book is by far the worst thing I've ever read. I've never hated a character more than I have Bovary herself. She's a disgrace to female characters in literature throughout all time. That book's story isn't even that good. The cyanide-induced suicide at the end was my favorite part for a reason.

@seventeencents

9 жыл бұрын

I totally agree. A Tale of Two Cities is too good to not make a list like this, I mean the iconic opening lines were literally paraphrased to describe what a different book on this list touched on! I also agree that no Steinbeck or Crime and Punishment is sort of surprising. Perhaps instead of two Tolstoy's they could've made room for one of these?

@TheZavinskiStories

9 жыл бұрын

Sean O'Sullivan I agree! They should have had the one novel per author role. While I do love Great Expectations, I just find AToTC a lot more fun and impactful to read.

@seventeencents

9 жыл бұрын

EZ64 Yeah it would be a little difficult to narrow down a Dickens to just the one, but my personal favorite was always AToTC and I feel like the list is incomplete without at least one. Then again the same argument could be made for likely Orwell and Steinbeck and plenty of others so I don't exactly envy whoever had to make the final call on this list.

@TheZavinskiStories

9 жыл бұрын

Sean O'Sullivan Yeah, had to be one of their harder ones to compile.

@Templedelagloire

9 жыл бұрын

I agree but I think Dickens' real masterpiece is bleak house

Fyodor dostoevsky, Balzac, Gogol?

@zofiar4753

4 жыл бұрын

Don't expect WatchMojo to actually know something about literature.

@jedscratchard1204

4 жыл бұрын

facts how do you have a top 10 list and not include dostoyevsky

100 Years of Solitude, most beautiful book I have ever read; Catcher in the Rye is good, but Seymour is better; Gravity's Rainbow is an astonishing work and simply must be read by anyone who cares about literature...

@Pythagoras1963

4 ай бұрын

G R is a very difficult read

@michaelbillypec

4 ай бұрын

@@Pythagoras1963 it’s well worth the effort

@AfterGODsheart

19 күн бұрын

100 years of solitude ✍🏾

@michaelbillypec

19 күн бұрын

@@AfterGODsheart Cloudstreet by Tim Winton

No Dostoevsky, Faulkner, Joyce??? I would have liked to see The Stranger too... but come on, man, really??? Even Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow? Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain???

@lorraineforte9175

4 жыл бұрын

All great,and don't forget Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand was amazing, she changed the way I now see the world.

Crime and Punishment

@user-fy6hk4rl3y

6 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@modernwarriorsystems7347

6 жыл бұрын

I was waiting for this one as well.

@hansouth2355

5 жыл бұрын

read c and p. will try to read brothers

How The Brothers Karamazov wasn't mentioned here is beyond me.

Jane Eyre is my favorite classic novel. Not only is it a compelling story, but it is couched in such exquisite prose as to make the vehicle as enjoyable as the journey. Strangely and unfortunately, Bronte's other works were nowhere near as good as this one.

What did the librarian say to the student? Read more

@EddieMachetti

5 жыл бұрын

10/10

@Adin21st

5 жыл бұрын

Master of Click Bait

@justaskvlad3849

5 жыл бұрын

Genius

@iskhx

5 жыл бұрын

This joke is just dead now, nobody really gives a ****

@pengipenguin2401

5 жыл бұрын

Ha

Alice in Wonderland? 1984? Crime and Punishment?

@wunderkind7762

7 жыл бұрын

FrankiesLittleMonster Now that I have heard 1984 does not make the list makes me die a little inside.....

@nikolavideomaker

6 жыл бұрын

It is on the list... 1984

@craftpaint1644

5 жыл бұрын

Alice and Wonderland is just a weird batch of ridiculous.

@---ck2vv

5 жыл бұрын

Greg Espinoza That is YOUR opinion.

I thought “The Count of Monte Cristo” would be here.

@LivingEpicness1

4 жыл бұрын

My favourite!! The movie didn't do it justice. Wish they do a reboot.

@raspberrycrowns9494

3 жыл бұрын

Not that famous, I mean I love the book but compared to others in this list it's sort of not that popular ( except for no. 8 I have never heard of that book don't even remember the name )

@yelyharmony2047

3 жыл бұрын

@@raspberrycrowns9494 How on Earth "The count of Monte Cristo isn't famous?

@raspberrycrowns9494

3 жыл бұрын

@@yelyharmony2047 it's one of my favorites but it doesn't get enough recognition like say, Pride and Prejudice

@weirdguy4948

3 жыл бұрын

@@raspberrycrowns9494 pride and prejudice sucks

The Brothers Karamatzov? Hello?!!!

@agall1013

4 жыл бұрын

what translation do you recommend??

@bbblueblun

4 жыл бұрын

beanie angela Pevear and Volokhonsky are often preferred for Russian translations. I have the Constance one tho.

@jonahpoulard7674

4 жыл бұрын

@@agall1013 david mcduff for penguin classics was excellent

@jedscratchard1204

4 жыл бұрын

greatest novel of all time. Not an exaggeration

Another list without any Dostoyevsky, like really?

@dakotanack6453

8 жыл бұрын

I was hoping Crime and Punishment would make the list.

@TheCriticBoxReviews

7 жыл бұрын

As was I

@alekseinilychkirillov8230

7 жыл бұрын

Oh my... what a shitty list. Allways the same overrated novels like Gatsby, Lolita, Moby Dick, but no "Brothers Karamazov" or "Demons". It´s regrettable.

@christina113704

7 жыл бұрын

christiandoritos several authors are like that, but it's generally the older ones that that got paid by the chapter.

@elichaitman3294

2 жыл бұрын

@@alekseinilychkirillov8230 Gatsby isn't overrated

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Dracula deserve Honorable Mentions. They are every bit as iconic and culturally important as any book on this list.

@user-mc1ir2ri9i

6 жыл бұрын

Frankenstein sucked bro, what a drag to get through

@johnreremoana9564

5 жыл бұрын

H.G.Wells: 'The War Of The Worlds' and 'The Time Machine', and most probably 'The Invisible Man'.

@kennybuxton3974

5 жыл бұрын

Honestly Frankenstein is a masterpiece but its extremely well.known so people will assume you're not well read, whereas something like lord of the flies, which in my opinion is a classic is still well known and commonly assigned in schools. So no I don't think Frankenstein should be on the last but perhaps something like far from the madding crowd or jude the obscure (both by British novelist and poet, Thomas hardy, who is my favourite writer)

@divisdecos5271

5 жыл бұрын

odinson99m Dracula doesnt deserve a spot but Frankenstein sure does. We read that in English 4 during my senior year in high school

@howie9751

4 жыл бұрын

@@divisdecos5271 I disagree. Dracula was a great novel and better than Frankenstein.

This list is very American-inclined , since there is no way novels like Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment , Kafka's The Trial & Camus's The Plague , shouldn't be included in any top ten list.

@ChocolatMudBaby

4 жыл бұрын

Did you watch the video? I guess Tolstoy was American lol

@trailmixgang

3 жыл бұрын

You like the Brothers Karamazov too?

@edwardelric2905

2 жыл бұрын

Just because you don’t like the selection on the list, doesn’t mean the list was American-inclined. There was Tolstoy who is Russian, Proust who is French, and Cervantes who is Spanish.

@168Laura

2 жыл бұрын

I would recommend “Dream of the Red Chamber” by Chinese author Cao Xueqin in mid-18th century to be the top one.

Dostoevsky, Kafka, and Mann should be listed. Two Tolstoy's are too many.

@Dida16

4 жыл бұрын

I agree but Tolstoy deserves to be on the list. These 3 writers you mentioned are in my top 5 too! Anyways, I 've seen hundreds of lists, never agreed fully. It's normal. I think this list is kinda the books we should all read before turn 18. Kafka and Mann are mostly understandable to advanced learners and Dostoevsky is a writer that people either love or hate. Imo as said he is a phenomenon.

@bbblueblun

4 жыл бұрын

Tolstoy deserves spots but I personally wish they could’ve included other books, not just obvious classics even non readers will know. yk?

@jonahpoulard7674

4 жыл бұрын

I would have 2 Tolstoy's and 2 dostoeyevskys

George Orwell’s “1984” novel should be in the top ten.

@jonahpoulard7674

4 жыл бұрын

Hate to say it, but quite frankly it's not top 10

@jamesalexander5623

4 жыл бұрын

It should be #2!

@martinmalloy8119

4 жыл бұрын

@@jamesalexander5623 it should be # 1 ;)

@TheGyroBarqusShow

3 жыл бұрын

This one of the novels that should be in every novels/Sci-Fi/Dystopia books top.

@lateshpatil5307

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGyroBarqusShow well it's my fav distopian entry LoL

The count of monte Cristo? Les Misarables? All quiet on the western front? A tale of two cities? The lord of the rings as an Honorable mention? What the hell are you guys smoking

@lordmaximus5

9 жыл бұрын

Ikr

@StazoLT

9 жыл бұрын

MrKJ444 All quiet on the western front FTW! And isn't LOTR too complex to be a novel? Idk tho

@trey1645

9 жыл бұрын

I'm gonna have to agree with Mr. Poe on this one.

@lordmaximus5

9 жыл бұрын

legofreak446 poe's poems pwn posers.

@mitchlmitten5874

9 жыл бұрын

I just finished reading Tale of Two Cities. That book was *SO* hard, but *SO* good!

thanks! i love that this list is not the "typical" picks! im here to figure out what to read next for my channel!

As your list progressed, I was wondering what might be your #1. And I guessed it right! These kind of lists are always open for debate, but you sure mentioned some of the great works of literature. Thanks for that.

No Dosteyevski ? YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME !!!!!

@robertd2558

6 жыл бұрын

I know, can you believe it!? How can a list of the top 10 greatest novels NOT include the famous (in your mind) Russian writer "Dosteyevski"? It's a trevesti.

@ferchavez7292

6 жыл бұрын

i mean, literally taste might be subjective, but are you saying Dosteyevski isn't famous? C'mon!

I'm so glad the hunger games didn't make the list!

@joeylafrond2472

9 жыл бұрын

Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss makes me want to stay away from the movies too.

@zclan4130

9 жыл бұрын

The hunger games trilogy is great, but these are completely different books

@Melchiorblade7

9 жыл бұрын

Zach Clanton Serious question. As someone who loves dystopian fiction such as Brave New World and 1984 to name a few, is Hunger Games a pretty good read? Or is it almost as bad as Twilight or other cash ins?

@zclan4130

9 жыл бұрын

***** there is a lot of character development through out the beginning and then when the hunger games starts you wont be able to stop reading. it just receives a lot of criticism because for some reason people hate to see things succeed

@Melchiorblade7

9 жыл бұрын

Ciaran Hufsky I just read Ayn Rand's Anthem after much delay. One of the most passionate dystopian narratives praising individualism I've read. Truly remarkable. Thanks for the suggestion btw, I'll look into Running Man.

What about "Lord of the Flies" or "Fahrenheit 451"?

@rancor4513

4 жыл бұрын

That's not really a novel

@chuckaudio3191

4 жыл бұрын

@@rancor4513 Oxford dictionary definition of novel: "a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism." Which one does not qualify?

@williamfinch1548

4 жыл бұрын

Fahrenheit 451 is massively overrated

@chuckaudio3191

4 жыл бұрын

@@williamfinch1548 What was your least favorite part?

@doncorleone7482

4 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed reading Fahrenhiet 451 , great book And my some must read would be Brothers Karamazov Crime and punishment Ramayana 1984 Ulysses

Gone With the Wind Rebecca Drácula Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus

@lorraineforte9175

4 жыл бұрын

Gone With The Wind,I consider a soap opera read,certainly not literature.

@gailjarvis2592

4 жыл бұрын

Gone With the Wind should have been included in place of To Kill a Mockingbird which was a politically-correct choice.

da fuck ?? where is Crime and Punishment ?

@saulgoodmanbrah

7 жыл бұрын

Right

@tierra5760

7 жыл бұрын

I fucking love that book

@joshuabowen4799

7 жыл бұрын

Hicham Dini Dude I was thinking the exact same thing.

@adamimadaev3372

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! agreed

@bygmesterfinnegan6938

6 жыл бұрын

Hicham Dini If we are talking dostoyevski, karamazov is the greater book

You just called the bible a work of fiction

@VictorWilliams12

9 жыл бұрын

Same. But they basically are calling any and all religious literatures fake.

@VictorWilliams12

9 жыл бұрын

***** time for me to move out of America 😂

@VictorWilliams12

9 жыл бұрын

***** you're right. 😂 I'm just gonna live a life of a recluse. And disable all KZread comments

@VictorWilliams12

9 жыл бұрын

Miguel Tejo oops

One of the best things about these beloved novels as that even though the acclaimed authors who wrote them are long gone, but the stories are immortal and continue to delight and inspire readers to this very day.

I've read 7 of these, and most of the runner ups. I was disappointed in Catcher in the Rye. Kept hearing about how wonderful it was. No Victor Hugo? No Dostoyevsky? No Dickens?

@karmaking1263

4 жыл бұрын

andyiswonderful if you read it again you will love it

@lesliematteis8010

4 жыл бұрын

andyiswonderful Great Expectations is by Charles Dickens

@andyiswonderful

4 жыл бұрын

@@lesliematteis8010 oops. My Alzhiemers. I read that in high school.

Tale of Two Cities? Of Mice and Men?

@adrianbooklecter7545

4 жыл бұрын

ikr where is omam and animal farm

@francisbennett3054

4 жыл бұрын

Of Mice and Men is a novella not a novel

@adrianbooklecter7545

4 жыл бұрын

@@francisbennett3054 no it's not

@francisbennett3054

4 жыл бұрын

@@adrianbooklecter7545 If you would take the 5 seconds needed to Google it, you would see that of Mice and Men is in fact a novella.

@adrianbooklecter7545

4 жыл бұрын

@@francisbennett3054 the first edition wrote below the title: A novel So it was meant to be one, it doesn't matter it's length, it's like Animal Farm

The way she pronounced Karenina made me cringe. Also, the lack of Fyodor Dostoevsky on this last made me cringe

@nottomrowntree5013

8 жыл бұрын

I am fairly certain that's the correct pronunciation

@MalharetasLair

8 жыл бұрын

+nottomrowntree No it's not. The way she pronounces it sounds weird because one part of the name's all jumbled and then long vowels seem to pop up at random places. And I'm a native russian speaker, by the way. I totally get where T-o-lstoy is coming from in terms of a stress, though, because it's much easier for english-speakers to say it that way than it is to articulate Tolst-o-y as his actual last name was (not to mention that the name's "Lev" not "Leo" but let's leave that for translators' consciense to bear;) ) On a side note, I'm fairly sure that her french pronunciation isn't that accurate either... Oh, those vowels!.. I'm not the one to judge, certainly, but why go out of your way trying to sound like you know some language or other when you clearly don't? It only leads people to think you're all bragging, condescending, and just generally a know-it-all... which is a confusing choice for the image to say the least. P.S. I sincerely apologise to those who got offended by either the point I made or grammar/spelling/odd sentence structure. As you could've guessed by now (insert an eye-roll), english is not my first language and it's not even the second one so bear with me. Although I am a not-so-soon-to-be translator so that's something.

@MalharetasLair

8 жыл бұрын

+Fantastic Bookworm See? That's ^ what they call "holier-than-thou" attitude. ;D

@edbarros3504

7 жыл бұрын

It is the worst top 10 of all time.

@Shinjin666

7 жыл бұрын

Greg Hufton ikr? Where the fuck Dostoevsky?!

Fahrenheit 451, Crime and Punishment, The Grapes of Wrath, Brave New World all need a mention

My favorite books of all time are 1. Notes from Underground by Dostoyevski 2. The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie by Agota Kristof and 3. No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai. My point is this is a rather subjective matter.

Lolita. Lolita. But wait Lolita wasn't a young tempress... she was the victim of HH

@marvelgirl68

8 жыл бұрын

What's HH?

@gabrielle9893

7 жыл бұрын

Victoria Godwin yeah. I'm so fucking pissed about their description. They obviously only saw the 1962 adaptation of the novel.

@Nullifidian

6 жыл бұрын

No, edenstore, you've confused the narcissistic, self-justifying narrative of the pedophile with the point of the book. The actual point of the book is that Humbert Humbert is a delusional idiot who is chasing after his vanished youth and his childhood girlfriend, imposing that psychosexual dynamic onto his relationship with Dolores, and ruining her life in the process. It's just too evident that Humbert Humbert and Dolores have nothing in common and that he's only convinced himself that she is the love of his life merely because she's there at the right age and thus she becomes a stand-in for Annabel. It's a satire on a superficial American culture that is stuck in a perpetual adolescence. This is like reading Michel Houellebecq's _Submission_ and coming away with the notion that the message of the novel is that Sharia law is totally awesome merely because the main character finds himself settling in quite happily to the new arrangement, out of an excess of pathetic, 21st century European anomie which makes any ethical system seem better than none. Both are acidly funny satires if you don't fall into the trap of seeing things through the narrator's eyes.

@terilefevers6189

6 жыл бұрын

Victoria Godwin exactly

Why the fuck was Lord of The Rings not on the list J. R. R. Tolkien formed high fantasy as we know it today its one of the most influential and best selling novels of all time,

@Templedelagloire

9 жыл бұрын

why should it be?

@johncha96

9 жыл бұрын

Templedelagloire As I've said its formed high fantasy as we know it, Everything Fantasy has been based of Tolkien universe and it "is one of the best-selling novels ever written, with over 150 million copies sold" So the real question is why the fuck isn't it on the list

@Templedelagloire

9 жыл бұрын

***** neither of those reasons - influential to its genre and best-selling - are good enough to make it one of the best novels of all time

@MrCanadaben

9 жыл бұрын

Templedelagloire But since they have "invented" words that now are in the Oxford dictionary and have a huuuge fanbase (talking about the books, not the films) amongst all ages and both genders it should be on this list. And it is considered one of the best novels of all time

@TheStephano619

9 жыл бұрын

Not everyone is a fat geek that says Lord of The Rings is the best best selling book of all time.

I'm not satisfied with the list as it doesn't include "One Hundred Years Of Solitude" even in the honourable mentions.

@yazmorales9015

4 жыл бұрын

Venture Onic maybe they only included books that were adapted to movies

@ventureonic3149

4 жыл бұрын

@@yazmorales9015 I realized that some weeks ago.😅

@ludwigvansolo1999

4 жыл бұрын

One hundred years of solitude is top tier. The best multigenerational novel of all time

Wow ! Not a single Jane Austen book on the list. And what about Thomas Hardy with Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

@johnjohnson4628

4 жыл бұрын

Of all the authors of prescribed texts for my high school and university studies, Thomas Hardy is the most vividly remembered regardless of whether or not he should be considered a great novelist. Jude the Obscure and Tess of the d'Urbervilles had a massive emotional and moral impact on me. Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice will also always be remembered for their impact. Admittedly, it's pretty futile making a list of the 10 greatest novels. Many English-speaking nationalities would not even know anything about great Asian authors through the centuries. As for more contemporary writers, we shouldn't be intimidated in acknowledging somebody like Stephen King or Margaret Atwood just because they are popular. They should make the top 500 list!

@lorraineforte9175

4 жыл бұрын

Love Thomas Hardy,have you read Jude The Obscure? It made me cry

@chloeauil4027

4 жыл бұрын

Tess of the d'Urbervilles is amazing. This book brought me to love classic literature.

@bugfeet73

3 жыл бұрын

This one SHOULD be required reading in High School!

Whoever made up this list is not as well-read as they think they are.

@SouthPark333Gaming

7 жыл бұрын

agreed, wheres all the doctor who novels?

@ianw.5047

7 жыл бұрын

SouthPark333Gaming fuck. Im laughing because i dont know if your serious. But i have seen the doctor who collection at barns and nobles

@webwalker1942

7 жыл бұрын

Love Doctor Who but is a TV show not a Book.

@letters_from_paradise

6 жыл бұрын

bernie b There are books about it, so you obviously don't love it that much.

@adamjames6953

6 жыл бұрын

>"Greatest *Novels*" >"Where's Macbeth? Where is the epic of Gilgamesh?" C'mon dude think about what you're typing.

1984, George Orwell

@saulgoodmanbrah

7 жыл бұрын

Me too

@linamia62

7 жыл бұрын

LuckyGuu yes

@bentvk2248

6 жыл бұрын

Man of culture I see

@03_anggerrangas3

6 жыл бұрын

Yes. The world building is amazing

@tartanplanet3553

5 жыл бұрын

I love that book, though it’s very depressing

My personal list: 10 - A Christmas Carol 9 - Don Quixote 8 - Pride & Prejudice 7 - Grapes of Wrath 6 - Catcher in the Rye 5 - 1984 4 - Crime & Punishment 3 - Beloved 2 - The Great Gatsby 1 - The Count of Monte Cristo Honorable Mentions (in no order): - Cat’s Cradle - One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - Brave New World - One Hundred Years of Solitude - Wuthering Heights - Kindred - Gravity’s Rainbow

@user-jw8fm8sf7q

Жыл бұрын

Can you explain me how any of these is better than lord of the rings???

@samhartje723

Жыл бұрын

@@user-jw8fm8sf7q personal taste

@user-jw8fm8sf7q

Жыл бұрын

@@samhartje723 maybe in test but objectively nothing better than lotr

@samhartje723

Жыл бұрын

@@user-jw8fm8sf7q objectivity doesn’t apply to subjective, personal lists like this. You sound like a fucking dweeb.

@izetyusein3323

4 ай бұрын

@@user-jw8fm8sf7qtry Malazan

The magic mountain, Hundred years of solitud, The Stranger, Hunger, On the road, Ulyses, Tropic of cancer.

100 years of solitude?

@josepablomartinez-rendon9484

5 жыл бұрын

michael morales I just got it yesterday! I’m so excited to read it!!!!!!

@thomasnelson3816

5 жыл бұрын

One of the best books ever, should definitely be in the top ten

@stircrazysos

5 жыл бұрын

What a book.

@aidacailar1126

5 жыл бұрын

At least in top 5. A piece of fiction that only a genius mind could create.

@lawrencesumblin3325

4 жыл бұрын

Oh! Love that book!

1: The Brothers Karamazov 2: The Count of Monte Cristo 3: Le Miserables 4: Bleak House 5: Under The Volcano 6: Brideshead Revisited 7: Father Goriot 8: The Tale of Peter Rabbit 9: Noddy Goes to Toyland 10: Zuleika Dobson 11: Coming Up For Air 12: The Master and Margarita 13: The Red and The Black 14: Catch 22 Honorable Mentions: Stranger in a Strange Land, Dead Souls, Heart of a Dog, The Bridge of San Luis Ray, Villette, and many many more...

@sheilabloom6735

8 жыл бұрын

Bleak House, of course. In my opinion', Dickens' greatest with its scathing indictment of the law. Jarndyce v. Jarndyce.

@iminthemomentru3003

8 жыл бұрын

Catcher in the rye isn't in your top 14? Just because of the concepts.A Judge cop etc or a love are just a bunch of phonies. A false front or a delusion of what you think you know? No one will ever know anyone.It's Fight club,Donnie Darko,Powder,A clockwork orange,lolita and Nietzsche IQ all rolled into one Book

@robertd2558

6 жыл бұрын

Actually, you already have four Honourable Mentions in your top "ten" list. So I suppose you mean "MORE Honourable Mentions"?

@kimmy4156

6 жыл бұрын

Omg love Count of Monte Cristo❤️❤️❤️

@ariqsetyawan4993

2 жыл бұрын

gud

C'mon! Don Quixote is not only "THE most important piece of writing to emerge from Spain's golden age", it is THE most important piece of writing to emerge, period.

How is 1984 only an honorable mention! I mean seriously, it was a literary masterpiece and should of been placed on the actual list itself!

You can't have a top 10 novels of all time list and not even mention Dostoyevsky. Crime and Punishment is definitely top 10, and The Brothers Karamazov is worthy of greatest book ever written. All these novels on this are super overrated: The Great Gatsby, The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird. Come on now. These books don't hang a lantern on Dostoyevsky.

@michaelngolding478

5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. Also, what about Faulkner and Thomas Mann?

@Fantumh

5 жыл бұрын

I love the writing style of The Great Gatsby, but it's not a particularly great book. The Catcher in the Rye is way overrated, and is quite juvenile. To Kill a Mockingbird is quite good, but not top 10 ever good.

@hannejeppesen2887

5 жыл бұрын

The Catcher in the Rye might be overrated, but I believe it was the first of the kind. Portraying teen age anxiety and angst, I read it when I was about 16-17 as a teen ager in Denmark in the early sixties, and I loved it. I believe it is a very important book, although to my disappointment my daughter who was born in 1980 did not like it at all.

@Fantumh

5 жыл бұрын

@@hannejeppesen2887 Oh, I read Catcher when I was younger and loved it, no doubt about it. I tried to reread it later on and just found the book way too juvenile and frankly a little obnoxious. It is a very important book and quite a good book, but it's still way overrated. It's too bad Salinger never was able to follow it up with more mature works, but then maybe he didn't have it in him. (Or else he just never showed the world.)

@hannejeppesen2887

5 жыл бұрын

@@Fantumh I tried to read some of Salinger's other work, but the writing could not hold my attention. I grew up in Denmark and was a teenager in the early sixties, I was probably about 16-17 years old when I read Catcher in the Rye, in Danish. When I came to the US as an au pair 22 years old, I had Catcher in the Rye with me. I had only had about 2 years or less of English in school, but living in the US and watching TV and mixing with young people my age (dating) I learned English fairly fast, also took night classes, it wasn't long before I could read Catcher in the Rye in English, it helped I had my Danish version. By the way about the same time Denmark had 2 famous authors who also published books about coming of age, the confusing, sex etc. Both was a little more edgy than Salinger's and one was quite dark, but still a great book.

WHERE THE FUCK IS WHERES WALDO?!

@olivermiddleton6655

9 жыл бұрын

Hehe you have to find him.

@JamesTheEpicGamer

9 жыл бұрын

Well your joke was much better than mine

@olivermiddleton6655

9 жыл бұрын

;)

@angusmaxim3450

9 жыл бұрын

Who the fuck is Waldo? You mean Wally, right?

@olivermiddleton6655

9 жыл бұрын

It depends what continent you are on, wally in europe waldo in north america

My favorite book, of course, THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY best book ever, in my opinion...

I spent a lot of time compiling a list of world greatest literary works, not limited to novels, and made a video about it. It includes 55 five literary works from 35 countries. It is nice to see there are some overlaps between your list and mine.

The absence of Crime and Punishment is criminal... *ba dum tss*

@NarminStaley

9 жыл бұрын

or the brothers karamavoz..

9 жыл бұрын

yes

Don Quixote number 9? No Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Goethe? This list is horrible :s

@Elldorado12

8 жыл бұрын

+Hans Landa I'm currently reading "The count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas, amazing, just amazing...

@antonwooldridge2233

8 жыл бұрын

+Hans Landa Hemingway, Steinbeck... the list goes on.

@antonwooldridge2233

8 жыл бұрын

+Anton Wooldridge Vonnegut...

@TrueOTFitness

8 жыл бұрын

+Outhmane Rassili Great choice!

I can't believe none of the books listed have pictures in them

What about the picture of Dorian Gray

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Count of Monte Cristo by Alxandre Dumas

@10killboy

8 жыл бұрын

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, 1984 by George Orwell, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, The Iliad by Homer, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne, Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, Candide by Voltaire, The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ode to Joy by Friedrich Schiller, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, The Call of Cthulhu by H.P Lovecraft

@mikefuller6959

7 жыл бұрын

"Man is human, and the small amount of intelligence one may possess counts as little or nothing against the rage of passion and the limits of human nature pressing upon him!" Spoken by Werther From 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' ( 1774, revised 1787 ) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1749 - 1832 )

@theraptor6973

5 жыл бұрын

Dont worry, they got covered with pride and prejudice on Mrs mojo.

@theraptor6973

5 жыл бұрын

And two pride and prejudice is too courtly love and crap. While les miserables is so dam long, and wonders on to characters that I dont care about, and backstories about characters such as Myriel, Fantine, and other characters that are interesting, but knowing their backstory doesn't matter. Count of Monte Cristo is okay, but the three musketeers is Alexandres best work

@bodinian

5 жыл бұрын

I found pride and prejudice to be the most boring book I ever read. Sensibilities changed since her days.

The list should be named: Top 10 Most Influential Novels of Western Culture. (even then, it is not really accurate) Anyway it should include: 1. Shadow Over Innsmouth/ anything from H.P Lovecraft (created the horror-genre) 2. The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien (created the high-fantasy-genre) 3. Ulysses - James Joyce (extreme variety of narrative) 4. Pride and Prejudice/ anything from Jane Austen (feministic literature) 5. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (created the speculative fiction) 6. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe (marked generations) 7. Unlce Tom's Cabin - Harriet Stowe (opened discussion about slavery) 8. Dracula - Bram Stoker (first big novel where media are important) 9. Germinal - Emile Zola (opened discussion about exploitation) 10. The Stranger - Albert Camus (opened discussion about immigration)

@168Laura

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agreed. I would recommend “Dream of the Red Chamber” by Chinese author Cao Xueqin in mid-18th century to be the top one.

1.Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 2.The Stranger by Albert Camus

I am glad that my second favourite writer Leo Tolstoy is in this top 10 greatest novels of all time. According to my opinion Crime and punishment by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky is also one of the best novels of all time.

what about the Bronte's or Austen or Dickens or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?!? how was this list complied?

I've read The Catcher In The Rye and I still don't understand why it's such a classic

@theoracle7148

2 жыл бұрын

Because it captures everything.

@morganclare4704

2 жыл бұрын

COULDN'T AGREE MORE! CHEERS

@jmsl910

Жыл бұрын

i think it requires a certain mindset. it's very dark. it's okay if it's not your cup of tea. i'd encourage you to pick it up again in a few years... i hope you will

@ultimatelv27

Жыл бұрын

I don't know why it's consider a classic but I keep reading it multiple times. lol

Lord of the flies. Becomes more and more relevant all the time...

@johndee1653

4 жыл бұрын

I disagree , Google the Tongan boys who were marooned on an island for over a year in very similar circumstances to the novel . The outcome was very different and very positive . Real life circumstances that make the novel seem somewhat irrelevant .

@h_curly6384

2 жыл бұрын

It’s always been relavant

I'll take this as a recommended reading list. I've read about half of these and will consider the others. As for my favorite 'reads' they are On The Road and The Virginian (short and easy)

What about Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey?

@thegodlycrew1

9 жыл бұрын

No.

@jordyh.5243

9 жыл бұрын

Look at the reviews.

@bluetarantulaproductions6179

9 жыл бұрын

Fuck those books

@jazzan9802

9 жыл бұрын

Fuck no.

@Eilanzer

9 жыл бұрын

¬¬

where the fuck is ulysses?? it should easily be number 1 but its not even in the honorable mention here

@chandlersanchez4559

9 жыл бұрын

Ulysses is a poem.....

@TheStephano619

9 жыл бұрын

Chandler Sanchez Ulysses is a novel.

@Templedelagloire

9 жыл бұрын

Chandler Sanchez lol no

@chandlersanchez4559

9 жыл бұрын

+Stephano619 Templedelagloire It's clsssified as an "epic poem," like the divine comedy by Dante. Just because it's long doesn't make it a book.

@MrAlanSnackbar

9 жыл бұрын

Chandler Sanchez You have the Ulysses, written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which is a poem. But you have also Ulysses, which is a novel, written by James Joyce... So you both are correct :p

Wow, Tolkien and Dickens get only an honorable mention? And Catcher in the Rye is on this list at all? Just wow.

1:It -Stephen King 2:Survivor- Chuck Palahniuk 3:Less Than Zero- Bret Easton Ellis 4:Women- Charles Bukowski 5: 1984- George Orwell 6:The Tommyknockers -Stephen King 7:Lullaby- Chuck Palahniuk 8:The Martian Chronicles -Ray Bradbury 9:Haunted- Chuck Palahniuk 10:Junky- William S. Burroughs

@MyBeautifulDarkTwistedFantasy6

3 жыл бұрын

TheNabOwnzz I’ve read hundreds of books... I guess the term “opinion” has never occurred to you, boyo.

For me anyways 1. Hitchhikers Guide/Restaurant At The End Of The Universe 2. LOTR 3. The Metamorphosis 4. Animal Farm 5. Cat's Cradle 6. A Storm Of Swords 7. A Clockwork Orange 8.A Brave New World 9. Something Wicked This Way Comes 10. Hatchet

@mydogdaisy1212

9 жыл бұрын

Metamorphosis was a novella/short story. It's Brave New World, not "A Brave New World". If Hatchet and A Storm of Swords make this list, you need to read more novels (even if they are all Fantasy or Sci-Fi, there is no way those books crack a sensible top 10, opinion or not)

@mydogdaisy1212

9 жыл бұрын

IveGotToast To be clear, the list was greatest novels of all time, not favorite. You do understand there is a difference correct? Ulysses wouldn't be in my top 50 books I have ever read, but is it likely one of the top 10 greatest novels? Most certainly. You can argue that I am a "self-righteous" cunt, but it does not seem to be my problem that you misinterpret lists and seem to think that your preferred (or nostalgic) novels are synonyms with the ones you think are best. Understand that for those that read these books regularly and encourage reading of higher literature by more people, it is disparaging to see people list Hatchet as the 10th best novel of all time. If you had said Grapes of Wrath was in the top 10, I would have disagreed, but it would not have been idiotic and I would not have "discounted" what you had said. What you did was akin to listing Gerald Ford as one of the top 10 greatest leaders of all time. It makes no sense at all to do so. I am not being some stickler about technicalities (yes I corrected you on Brave New World, but if you read the book, you should know the title), I am basically stating the obvious that a book that no one in their right mind would list in the top 5,000 novels of all time is certainly not in the top 10.

@IveGotToast

9 жыл бұрын

mydogdaisy1212 I began my comment with "for me anyways", so it was clear from the beginning that my list was opinionated. It's my list and I would refuse to put a book that i dislike, such as The Grapes Of Wrath on the list no matter how universally acclaimed it is. Since you can't stand to see a child's novel on the list, I will fix it. I googled "10 best novels of all time" and copied the first list I found. 1. Ulysses 2. The Great Gatsby 3. A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man 4. Lolita 5. A Brave New World ;) 6. The Sound And The Fury 7. Catch - 22 8. Darkness At Noon 9. Sons And Lovers 10. The Grapes Of Wrath Now that's a basic, boring, and unoriginal list that everyone can agree on. Now if you'll excuse me Vikings is on, and I have a date with a bunch of actors with bad accents. You probably don't care though. You strike me as someone who thinks TV is beneath you.

@Melchiorblade7

9 жыл бұрын

IveGotToast You have good taste in literature my friend.

@Melchiorblade7

9 жыл бұрын

IveGotToast You should read C.S. Lewis's "An Experiment in Criticism" captures the un-literary spirit of the so called literary experts so well. People who read books merely to criticize, and who bring things out of the work to match their own view on life rather than emptying all expectations going into a work and receiving whatever is to be had from the experience in and of itself. Read what you enjoy reading, not what others say you should enjoy

I've read none of these books and I disagree

@nickgaming_2519

8 жыл бұрын

Maybe you should read them

@tylersmith2491

8 жыл бұрын

+Nicholas Rodriguez im reading the catcher in the rye its great

@nickgaming_2519

8 жыл бұрын

+Tyler Smith is it violent and have action

@angel23824

8 жыл бұрын

+kieran sargeant How can you disagree if you haven't read them?

@nickgaming_2519

8 жыл бұрын

Exactly

L' estranger (The Outsider) by Albert Camus. Demian by Herman Hesse.

M. Bulgakov's novel "the Master and Margarita" is a very bright and optimistic . The main characters in it are love and creativity as the main exponents of the forces of Good on earth. That is why, perhaps, I advise everyone to read this work. The novel is mystical, exciting and life-affirming, as it raises such issues that have always worried man: good and evil, courage and cowardice, unbelief and faith, creative and free personality, lies and truth, indifference and love, the problem of power, the theme of personal responsibility and personal destiny. Critics have made an analogy of Bulgakov's novel and the history of Faust, only in the "Master and Margarita" the situation is presented in an inverted form. Faust sold his soul to the devil and betrayed the love of Marguerite for the sake thirst for knowledge, and in the novel Bulgakov Margarita makes a deal with the devil for the love of the Master.

Great Gatsby and Huckleberry Finn make the top 10 while Lord of the Rings, Frankenstein, and Paradise Lost don't. Please Watchmojo, stick to Movies, TV and Video Games.

@Templedelagloire

9 жыл бұрын

what's wrong with gatsby?

@WatchMojo

9 жыл бұрын

DoctorXander Paradise Lost is an epic poem homie. Signed, KG

@DoctorXander

9 жыл бұрын

WatchMojo.com Touché

@DoctorXander

9 жыл бұрын

Templedelagloire It's not a bad book, but I don't think it even compares to LOTR

@gab_gallard

9 жыл бұрын

Frankenstein is great, but maybe too generic as a horror-sci-fi novel, and technically LOTR is not a novel, but a high fantasy legendarium.

I thought all those books are good, but my favorite is "The Sun Also Rises"

If I had to be limited to only ten, then here they are: 1. "The Sea, The Sea," by Iris Murdoch 2. "Lord Jim," by Joseph Conrad 2. "Shutter Island," by Dennis Lehane 3. "Democracy," by Joan Didion 4. "The Counterfeiters," by Andre Gide 5. "Bleak House," by Charles Dickens 6. "Absalom! Absalom!" by William Faulkner 7. "The Winter of Our Discontent," by John Steinbeck 8. "The Ipcress File," by Len Deighton 9. "For Whom the Bell Tolls," by Ernest Hemingway 10. "Love in the Time of Cholera," by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

1: War And Peace 2: Anna Karenina 3: Watership Down 4: Nineteen Eighty-Four 5: Lolita

@supralogical

4 жыл бұрын

Nice. Don Quixote.

@kingamoeboid3887

2 жыл бұрын

@@supralogical haven’t read Don Quixote yet.

Catcher in the Rye and The Great Gatsby ahead of Don Quixote? No Dickens? Madame Bovary no.2? This is the worst list i've seen yet.

@kylewit924

8 жыл бұрын

+godriczimmerman Opinion.

@godriczimmerman

8 жыл бұрын

Kyle Witzen Yes, my opinion. Thank you for stating the obvious. It's simply an opinion, but one that i can argue pretty strongly for, if you wish to. But then again, it's not really just my opinion, but one that, i'm sure, is shared by many others. Have you read Dickens greatest novels? Have you read Don Quixote? and you still think that Catcher in the Rye is better art? One of the top 10 literary achievements in history?

@kylewit924

8 жыл бұрын

I have written my own list in the comment section, it is in the public domain, fit for your dismissal.

@helenzoramthangi2815

8 жыл бұрын

look at the inspiration scale its not that bad though l didi not agree to all the list too

@MisterCharlton

8 жыл бұрын

+godriczimmerman CitR is number one for me. I hold it close to my heart.

For Dickens, I would have chosen _A Tale of Two Cities_ instead of _Great Expectations._ And I would have elevated the choice to one of the top 10, instead of just honorable mention.

@noahlasher9724

3 жыл бұрын

“It’s very *minor* Dickens”

It is perfectly understood the great influence of Russian literature and the great impact it has on these dates, but something that I disagree is that there are better works compared to Nabokov and Lolita, nobody says it is bad because it is not, but does not deserve to be located in the top taking into account that no mention was made to Hemingway or Kafka.

Crime and Punishment? Animal farm? Dandelion wine? 100 years of solitude?

Would it be considered too artsy-fartsy to mention Ulysses by James Joyce?

@sab85ful

7 жыл бұрын

That's why I don't think it made a top ten list. Same with most of the novels I enjoy lol.

@Nullifidian

6 жыл бұрын

+Alexander Riley Perhaps, but _The Catcher in the Rye_ is also polarizing for those who have read it and that didn't stop it from getting mentioned. Holden Caulfield is literary Marmite. (Personally, I hated him and the book when I had to read it in high school. And if it doesn't click with you in high school, then it never will.)

@giraffesinspandex

5 жыл бұрын

ulysses belong here

@johnwatters3431

5 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@giraffesinspandex

5 жыл бұрын

it's not artsy fartsy - ulysses is talked about more than it's read. it's penetrable - finnigans wake is unreadable. quite literally. i believe the two have been confused with each other. ...ulysses is not artsy fartsy & if you can not read it then it's on you. ...ulysses belongs.

nineteen eighty four should have been number 1, the effect it has is just unbelievable

I’m surprised no one ever attempted to make a movie adaptation of “Catcher In The Rye”.

@HAL-vm3wn

4 жыл бұрын

Oh, Billy Wilder once wanted to

@Foxy-ve1oh

4 жыл бұрын

Derek Roberts it would probably ruin it. The catcher in the rye is a beautiful book by itself it doesn't need a movie to go with it

@shreyankarki4455

4 жыл бұрын

That's because its illegal

@Foxy-ve1oh

4 жыл бұрын

Shreyan Karki why is it illegal?

@shreyankarki4455

4 жыл бұрын

@@Foxy-ve1oh Salinger refused to sell the movie rights or something like that

"1984" should have been first, because it examines society as a whole, looking at our base instincts for the pursuit of power and self-survival. Intense, horrifying, prophetic.

@evanreichelt8745

3 жыл бұрын

In what way does 1984 examine our pursuit of power and self-survival?

@kingkante2913

3 жыл бұрын

@@evanreichelt8745 it’s overrated asf

the Picture of Dorian Gray

@maxlusaya3597

6 жыл бұрын

I read and liked this book of Oscar Wilde very much

@craftpaint1644

5 жыл бұрын

People need to read it because movies screw it up every time.

@Octavio12341000

4 жыл бұрын

Total Masterpiece. Also Mauppassant is amazing. Try his short stories

God I hate Whiner in the Rye so much. And before I get shit, know I understand why people like the book: they can relate to Holden Caulfield, or at least some of his problems. I however cannot, and as a result, the book is just a lot of whining to me.

@toonmaster0729

9 жыл бұрын

Where do I mail your Medal for best comment on youtube?

@Raycroissant

9 жыл бұрын

Never had I read someoe complain so much. In my personal list, it's one of the worst books I've ever read.

@mah4565ify

9 жыл бұрын

completely agree with everything you say. Its more of an influential book than a great book.

@gvnski6306

9 жыл бұрын

As a big fan of the book, i totally respect your opinion. I say this because i hate alot of people who liked it, try to turn it around on alot of other people and bash people into liking it. Gives us fans of the book a bad name. It's a really subjective book

@DEFxRECON

9 жыл бұрын

He's complaining mostly because of his fucked up mental problems like him being suicidal, his brother dying, his father abusing him, and losing innocence. He wanted to be "the catcher in rye" because his innocence was lost and wanted to save his sister's innocence.

Little, Big by John Crowley Remains of the Day Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guinn The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

@Darjeelingla

3 жыл бұрын

Recommendation: Anthony Adverse.

Women in Love by DH Lawrence should be in the top 10. The book is so psychologically penetrative and real! The style is fluid and amazing! A Passage to India by EM Forester should also be in here! I have read and reread all the novels listed in this video, also.