I was feeling all superior but then I remembered I’m just watching KZread videos right now instead of reading

@chanakyadevil

5 жыл бұрын

Get to work

@caitlinroseblaney226

5 жыл бұрын

It’s not like you have to be reading right now, just as long as you do read 🤗

@antoniolozano9029

5 жыл бұрын

Youre rigth i gona star whit Terry Pratchett

@EduardoOlidenJr

5 жыл бұрын

Just do what I do: Watch while you cook; Read while you commute. ...unless you drive...that would be problematic.

@acledfloyd

5 жыл бұрын

Good Omens is my favorite for sure.

I feel like the question should’ve been “can you read?”

@fares.b1301

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha

@rafizsadique4299

3 жыл бұрын

*enter Tywin Lannister*

@abigailr1128

3 жыл бұрын

Lol! Yes!

This would be better if you guys didn't edit out the smart people. I'm sure one person in LA has read a novel.

@dudicorn6503

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly, and thank you.

@Mr35diamonds

4 жыл бұрын

I mean the notion that there are such people is slightly disconcerting anyway.

@OppoRancisis

4 жыл бұрын

You’d be surprised

@danielsavin4627

4 жыл бұрын

Doubt that ngl

@HoldenNY22

4 жыл бұрын

theoryaction- That is what I think. But as Howard K Beale- "The I"m as Mad as Hell Newscaster from the great Movie= "Network"- "Less than 5 % of you read books." I am not sure if that less than 5% figure is accurate.

As a former lit professor , this breaks my heart. Our schools need to teach students how to spell and proper grammar and how to enjoy a great novel!

5 жыл бұрын

so what is your favorite novel? :)

@wunderbarmutti5221

5 жыл бұрын

I teach and must say schools aren’t fully to blame. Teachers have to teach a test which sucks any fun and enjoyment out of learning especially reading. Students read long random passages now and answer questions about it. I would also hate to read if that was my exposure to literature.

@NARKISDUDE

5 жыл бұрын

are you still lit?

@conniecrawford5231

5 жыл бұрын

Linnet Husi My consolation is that they edit these lips to use only the uninformed people. Hopefully, there were a lot of people questioned who got "cut" because the COULD name a novel!

@shryoder

5 жыл бұрын

@@NARKISDUDE lmao.

I've always wondered whether they edit this out in order to only show the dumb ones! cause these can't be the only ones they interview

@sammack1890

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I live in Los Angeles and I've been asked about "Can you name a country". I'm pretty good at geography and named a lot, but I wasn't featured.

@hidof9598

3 жыл бұрын

@@sammack1890 , they want to control public perception

@do9138

2 жыл бұрын

Of COURSE they edit it! They are trying to make a point, so they use what supports that point. You were taught to do the same thing when you were taught to write research papers.

@gaynormainwaring1853

4 ай бұрын

I’ve thought that too - pick out the people who will generate the most reaction.

@wcwright44

2 ай бұрын

….but, still

"Name a novel" "the Bible" -an answer so dumb it was unintentionally smart.

Jesus 😂😂 how have you never read a book

@pnut3844able

5 жыл бұрын

ethan sutton she's young. Kids don't do hard copy these days

@vandeolkon

5 жыл бұрын

My kids do! They love to read!! And my son is low vision so he switches from book to an iPad so his eyes don’t hurt.

@ethansutton2522

5 жыл бұрын

vandeolkon so do I. I love reading books by 8th grade I was reading Stephen king books. My favourite novel has to be Mr. Mercedes by him

@teamworkformyfrainds

5 жыл бұрын

i've never read a book and im a doctor

@AlanHope2013

5 жыл бұрын

@jmarks881 You wouldn't be saying that if you'd ever read one voluntarily. So having given away the fact you never have, your opinion becomes worthless.

Bible 😭😭😭

@worf7271

5 жыл бұрын

Is that the one where they have to destroy a ring on Mount Doom?

@floorbrown

5 жыл бұрын

most bullshit,harmful book ever

@EricaShady10171972

5 жыл бұрын

Well...it is fiction.

@citizen320

5 жыл бұрын

Close enough lol

@sweetboo1022

5 жыл бұрын

Well it is the oldest fiction book in history

I honestly thought that someone was going to say HARRY FREAKING POTTER!!!

My favorite novel is 1984 by George Orwell.

@isabelerhart9523

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! That's probably my favorite too.

@jsmith7888

3 жыл бұрын

Read more then

@homoabsurdus9758

2 жыл бұрын

My man. Love that book as well

@nikkimoon1533

2 жыл бұрын

Well, nowadays you get the live-in experience. 😆

Let's make Orwell's *1984* Fiction again

@anonymousperson3491

5 жыл бұрын

This is less 1984 and more Fahrenheit 451

@bluepeng8895

4 жыл бұрын

What’s an Orwell?

@user-wv7vu3ns9v

4 жыл бұрын

Im reading 1984 at the moment!!

@dutchgala7492

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-wv7vu3ns9v That's great. Certainly have the time. *Everyone Stay Safe. Please.*

@kimtaekook9965

3 жыл бұрын

I thought u were talking abt captain jeon twt au 😅 Ngl it's one of masterpiece i hv ever read

I weep for humanity.

embarrasing...

@slaughterhouse5309

5 жыл бұрын

How is this possible?

@Rougarou99

5 жыл бұрын

‘Merica.

@Anon54387

5 жыл бұрын

That guy from Boston must be lying. How does one get out of school without reading a novel? Of course the difference is that those who are into books are the ones who watched the Great American Read which is far different from asking random pedestrians on the street in front of his studio. These are two entirely different groups of people who don't overlap.

@franciscopinto6394

5 жыл бұрын

@@slaughterhouse5309 Well, to answer your questions, I confess I identify with these people in a sense. I too don't read books when information and other forms of media are more readily available. It's fun to shame these people, but let's not make the mistake of assuming a certain intellectual superiority because of it.

@smiller2044

5 жыл бұрын

@@franciscopinto6394 well one guy said he's reading Fear and the show wanted a non-fiction title. Literacy is not the only form of intelligence, but those asked didn't seem promising bunch.

I actually read a lot but I'd be stumped if you asked me this randomly on the street.

@amnajaved6894

5 жыл бұрын

I do that too. In am interview someone asked me this question and I started to get blank in my mind.

@samuelburleigh3550

4 жыл бұрын

@@amnajaved6894 With so many famous novels, you can´t think on the top of your head.. War and Peace, The Great Gatsby, Catch-22 etc.?

@amnajaved6894

4 жыл бұрын

@@samuelburleigh3550 for some odd reason no. It's like the words and names disappear.

@leonardshevlin7260

3 жыл бұрын

I drew a blank when asked to name as many varieties of apples as I could. I am certain that being on a quiz show would be a greater challenge than coming up with the answers from my couch.

@Cashwisdom94

3 жыл бұрын

That just means your mind is badly fragmented.

As a bookworm this video sincerely took years off my life lmao

My favorite Novel is The Hobbit, read it in HS when the movie was barely being announced

@darcyliz9993

4 жыл бұрын

Bro.....I never read any Tolkien books (because apparently his books are not available in my place) but with the help of the movies and some loyal and huge Tolkien fans, he became one of my favourite writers.

1.Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoievski 2. Ulysses James Joyce. 3. Chevengur. Andrei Platonov 4. War and peace. Lev Tolstoy 5. The sound and fury. William Faulkner 6. Blood meridian. Cormac McCarthy 7. Tale of two cities. Charles Dickens 8. Germinal. Emile Zola 9. Life and fate. Vassili Grossman 10. A confederacy of dunces. John Kennedy Toole.

@AlanHope2013

5 жыл бұрын

This looks like a list of the books you'd like people to think are your favourites. Ulysses? Come on. That wasn't even Joyce's favourite.

Stephen King is my all-time favourite author and when I heard that guy say that "Pet Sematary" was his favourite novel, I was low-key excited and then he said that he has seen the movie, but not read the book because it's thick. I was a bit disappointed. Pet Sematary is one of his shorter works. Try reading IT if you don't believe me!(it's an awesome book but took me some time)

@krasius7019

Жыл бұрын

The stand is even thicker I guess

Robinson Crusoe. I remember day dreaming about it during class and running home after school to pick it up.

Can you guys please make a compilation of all the smart people with smart answers who you leave out of the videos? Just so we can all feel a bit better...

Omg this is such a good one hahahah. I hope the world doesn't think this represents all Americans though :(

@brandondriver99

5 жыл бұрын

I hope so as well... I think probably 60% of the USA still reads books

@brandondriver99

5 жыл бұрын

@Tim Dev not necessarily true. There's always 2020

@bluelambo5

5 жыл бұрын

Yup we all think u can't read now cuz of a segment on a talk show where they clearly cut anybody that read because it disturbed the feel they were going for. Sure.

@blabhblaja

5 жыл бұрын

Well... Not specifically from this video but...

@brandondriver99

5 жыл бұрын

@@bluelambo5 hey man, spread good vibes. No need for unnecessary sarcasm

My favorite novel is youtube comments.

@dutchgala7492

5 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Read many books a day, yes?

fahrenheit 451

@Bidoofus

5 жыл бұрын

GARY HILL That's a really good one

@bobbykilroy860

5 жыл бұрын

nice! classic

@47and28

5 жыл бұрын

just off the top of my head: tom sawyer lord of the flies jaws american psycho adventures of Huckleberry Finn catcher in the rye brave new world bram stoker's dracula Mary shelly's frankenstein the exorcist

@lucasrios9249

5 жыл бұрын

I couldn't get halfway through that book. I don't see how people enjoy reading.

@bobbykilroy860

5 жыл бұрын

Lucas Rios ending is fire

And we now live in a time when if you asked that question to the President, he'd answer "Ivanka's... She has the cutest belly button ever."

@bluelambo5

5 жыл бұрын

Ivankas novel? I don't get it

@bluelambo5

5 жыл бұрын

@@oneduality ah, I didn't know your belly button is called a navel. Probably would have got it if I knew that lol and lmao "if she wasn't my daughter, perhaps I'd date her" lmfao who says that 😂😂😂

@bluelambo5

5 жыл бұрын

Also you're from Canada, why u stating him as "the president"

@Bidoofus

5 жыл бұрын

SirVixIsVexed You have no evidence that they are liberals.

@donb6897

5 жыл бұрын

He's a troll. Don't feed him.

My favourite novel is Little Women Second favourite is A Christmas Carol Third Favourite is Oliver Twist. I love reading classics!!

Reading is unamerican

@tonyofarrell2775

5 жыл бұрын

So is thinking

@Nullifidian

5 жыл бұрын

Damn! I hope they don't take away my passport. Of course, having a passport is un-American too, since it means going to foreign places and having contact with other peoples and cultures.

@lapislazuli06

5 жыл бұрын

@@LenniL-ob4ll oh man...😂😭

It's upsetting to see how little people read now a days. I'm 24, I just started picking up books again around 2 to 3 years ago. People always give me obnoxious looks and passive aggressive jokes when I'm seen reading or talk about a book I read, as if I'm attempting to act prestigious or something lol. Nothing that truly hurts my feelings or upsets me, I just find it humorous how obsolete people perceive books. Nothing can compare to immersing yourself into the right book for you. There's a story out there for everybody.

@Phineas1626

2 жыл бұрын

Really appreciate your thoughtful comment. I actually still read a print newspaper and it’s such a novelty I actually have gotten several free cups of coffee from servers.

@darkale658

2 жыл бұрын

It's happening more than ever that good books get picked up and turned into movies and tv shows. I think reading will become cool again when people start to realize you can read the source material months or years before the tv version comes out.

@r.22r

Жыл бұрын

Reading had really fallen out of fashion about ten to fifteen years ago. Thanks to harry potter though, a lot of people got back into reading. Now with booktok ( tiktok book community) a lot of young people are reading (Sad but atleast its promoting a good habit).

They'd be running to get away from me. I'd break it down by genre and then start rearranging the ranking depending on mood.

Ouch! The book worm in me felt this like a stab in the heart! My favorite novel would have to be either Pride and Prejudice (I’ve read it 3x) or any of the seven Harry Potter books (read all of them 3x & will probably read them all for a 4th time)

@darcyliz9993

4 жыл бұрын

I love Jane Austen and P&P is my favourite novel of hers.

@lilianaohara

2 жыл бұрын

Mine is jane Eyre, and the throne of glass series, and the cruel prince and all the ones you just mentioned

@elaroden1636

2 жыл бұрын

omg i love pride and predjudice, my favourite by jane austen would be northanger abbey :) and i love the maze runner series and any grishaverse book, especially six of crows

@addie-eileenpaige6460

Жыл бұрын

I would've said Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows if this was me.

Pick up a book once in a while!!!!!!

The Brothers Karamazov By Fyodor Dostoevsky

@radeknaprstek3886

5 жыл бұрын

How aproachable is it for a normal reader? I have some respect for Dostoevsky and I fear I will have a tough time to get to his work. I read mostly fantasy, scifi and books about WW2 but I also really enjoyed classical writers like Steinbeck, Salinger, Orwell, Hemingway, Remarque and some others but I never read anything from a Russian author.

@MoonLaceyButterfly

5 жыл бұрын

Radek Náprstek very much so. Dostoevsky is well known for being the first to write psychological thriller types of novels. Although I haven’t read “The Brothers Karamazov ”, “Crime and Punishment” was a great read and actually a bit laughable in some areas (forgive me if my humor seems a bit crass here).

@tynakatroberts5117

4 жыл бұрын

Daniel B That's a good one!!

@Moamanly

4 жыл бұрын

@@radeknaprstek3886 Try Solzhenitsyn's 'One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovitch' or 'August 1914' for size.

Since people are chiming in with their favorite novels, I'll give mine: _The Decameron_ by Giovanni Boccaccio. It's a bit of an anomaly, because it consists of a hundred stories told over ten days by a _brigata_ of seven women and three men, but that frame narrative gives it just enough of an overarching structure for it to be considered a novel. If anyone is interested in checking it out, I highly recommend the Guido Waldman translation published by Oxford World's Classics. The translation is superb and the extensive endnotes are very useful for orienting oneself in Boccaccio's late medieval/early Renaissance world.

@lacasadipavlov

5 жыл бұрын

Excellent choice!!!

The few novels that I have read: The adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. The lost symbol by Dan Brown. The name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe. I am not an avid fictional reader but I read non-fiction a lot. Philosophy, religion and history are my favourites. It is very sad to see that people are not reading at all.

@nikkimoon1533

2 жыл бұрын

Oooooh! Some of those are really good (I only know a couple of them). Digital Fortress is my favourite Dan Brown book. I absolutely loved that one. Haven't read The Lost Symbol yet, but I will definitely add these to my tbr pile. I haven't finished The Richest Man In Babylon. Sometimes a book has too many lessons to get through in one sitting and needs time and attention.

@hamishah7816

2 жыл бұрын

@@nikkimoon1533 Read Angels and Demons by Dan Brown and A case of exploding mangoes by Muhammad Hanif. These two novels, especially the one by Hanif are amazingly written.

I have too many favorites to name, but I loved “The Book of Harlan” and “Sugar” by Bernice L. McFadden.

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

I regret clicking on this video.😒

Glad I've read books! My favorite novel is The Wizard Of Oz.

Once I didn't watch TV for 5 yrs and I read lots of books but even my sister doesn't believe me. I've been a book lover since I was a little kid. My fav novels are "Count of Monte Cristo," and "Pride and Prejudice." Oh, and "Dracula."

@nikkimoon1533

2 жыл бұрын

Omg! Dracula was awesome! Took a while to pick up, but when it did... Hooooo boy! 👀 I could not put it down! Have you read Mary Shelly's Frankenstein? That book is a keeper. An absolutely delightful read. ❤️

@beckv8526

2 жыл бұрын

@@nikkimoon1533 I haven't, actually. I have the book. I guess now I will. Thanks. Have you read "The Alienist?" Awesome book. Historical fiction of New York.

My favorite will always be Catcher in the Rye. Dont know why. There's just something about that story...

@conniecrawford5231

5 жыл бұрын

Jørn Bjerregaard it' about teenage angst and is popular for some of the same reasons ""Rebel Without A Cause" is such a compelling movie ( that and James Dean's amazing performance). Coming of age stories are always going to speak to our young people from "Tom Sawyer" to "Mockingbird" ( I shortened the full titles for effect). It's what music does, also.

@Araf28666

4 жыл бұрын

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

@SammieMousie

3 жыл бұрын

Still haven't read The Catcher in the Rye but my favorite is East of Eden. I know a lot of people say The Grapes of Wrath is the better of the two novels from Steinbeck but I love East of Eden so much more. Although, I will say this every American should read The Grapes of Wrath. I can't stress enough how relevant that book is to this day and it was written in 1939.

NOBODY said Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Or even some YA Hunger Games type stuff? Damn...

@albertandrews130

5 жыл бұрын

good book, Martian Chronicles even better, Foundation better still

The international book club that I am a part of in Goodreads has the biggest population of readers from America.

'Barnabas came to us by sea.' Both the first and last sentences in The House of The Spirits by Isabel Allende. Enchanting.

Tough question to pick just one-- Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry is my favorite, although I prefer reading his "short novel," The Forest Path to the Spring. RIchard Flanagan's novel, Gould's Book of Fish is right up there, too, but I think choosing just one is a bit ridiculous.

@Nullifidian

5 жыл бұрын

I bought _Gould's Book of Fish_ years ago for my Kindle, but it broke and I replaced it with a Kobo because the Kindle was no longer properly rendering files downloaded from Internet Archive. Since I only got my Kindle in the first place to read public domain books, this was a deal-breaker for me. But now I've lost access to all the books I bought, except by sitting at the computer and reading via their free desktop app. You're tempting me to make the effort for this book.

One hundred years of solitude

@CT-um7zq

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, pretty much everything from Garcia Marquez. That guy is a genius.

@luiserenner7147

5 жыл бұрын

O yes!

@JoseGranny

5 жыл бұрын

Excellent read. I was 16 when I first read that book. I still remember the colorful images it painted.

@somekidsmom07

5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

@amnajaved6894

5 жыл бұрын

Ohmg. Yes.

I knew that was coming. But it still hurt. Ouch.

My favorite novel is Catcher in the Rye or The Outsiders

Bruh. Harry Potter! 🙄 How come no one mentioned Harry Potter, yet whenever you ask someone who doesn't actually read what their favourite novel is, they say, "The first Harry Potter." 🤣 personally, Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon is my favourite book. That book was action, love story, and so heartbreaking it made my freaking tears cry. 🥺 Very well written.

So many people do not read :( So sad

Mine is The Girl on the Train!

@olciaszwarc

5 жыл бұрын

Emily Hyland that was literally the worst book I ever read

@danceluver2090

5 жыл бұрын

Ola Szwarc hahaha I liked it 😂

Shout out to the guy that said Pet Sematary ! lol that's my favorite!

Favorite book: Name of the wind - Patrick Rothfuss

@keys2467

5 жыл бұрын

that's a good one

@emmacarazo

5 жыл бұрын

greatt onee

@BernieYohan

5 жыл бұрын

I’m waiting for another from him.

@JaskaranSingh-je7tg

5 жыл бұрын

great book, loved the musical and romantic bits.

@donb6897

5 жыл бұрын

meh.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit which I read when I was a child.

@peerlessbreton7182

5 жыл бұрын

Yaaay!

@darcyliz9993

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah....I'm a huge fan of Tolkien too.

Out of all the novels I've read, probably the outsiders or holes would be my favorite. But the one novel I would highly recommend is Nineteen-eighty-four, that novel is the only one I've ever read front to back that wasn't part of a school curriculum. And as I get older, I can see why education systems don't allow classes to read that one.

@fairy6430

Жыл бұрын

Omg same I loveeee the outsiders!

One of my favorite novels is "100 Years of Solitude" by Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Others are "The Pillars of the Earth" Ken Follet and "A world Without End" by the same author. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoi is a good read as well.

It's a tie: Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky and Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.

I feel so sad for people who don´t read. I enjoy it as much or even more as watching a great movie or watching a riveting Netflix show.

@derekviveiros2145

5 жыл бұрын

I feel so bad for people who read too much. Their socially awkward

@blabhblaja

5 жыл бұрын

Not really

@intimi28

5 жыл бұрын

At least people who read know the difference between their and they're and how to use punctuation. You know, the things that come in handy when writing job application letters, work reports, KZread comments, etc. Other than that books are great for critical thinking skills, for comprehensive reading skills and for imagination skills, since a reader needs to imagine the story in his mind rather than have it easily presented to them like with movies.

@cei9514

5 жыл бұрын

@@derekviveiros2145 you know, people who read can usually tell the difference between 'there' and 'their'.

@derekviveiros2145

5 жыл бұрын

@@cei9514 Tru story lol

This is just sad. No wonder the rest of the world thinks we're stupid here in America

@derekviveiros2145

5 жыл бұрын

*Know lmao

There was a time in my life when I'd read two books per week. Some I don't even remember the names of but I know their stories. It's been two months and I have not read fiction.

I think the book thief. I just remember it moving me to tears and it was just so well written.

crime and punishment by Dostoevsky

@miguelalejandroquezadamora5764

5 жыл бұрын

Brothers Karamazov is his absolute greatest work. For me is the greatest novel of all time.

@angelasinger2953

5 жыл бұрын

@@miguelalejandroquezadamora5764 and The Idiot

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

@ahamedularefin9426

5 жыл бұрын

Mine too

@zeeblue1220

5 жыл бұрын

Fantastic book, I think that might be my favorite, too.

@shrukers7057

5 жыл бұрын

I searched for it at so many book store but it's always sold out. So I searched at books even and guess what? It's already out of stock, I wonder if I ever going to get a chance to read it 😔

Tale of Two Cities (if it counts as a novel), The Brothers Karamazov and The Famished Road by Ben Okri, Silas Marner by George Eliot is up there in my Tops.

@AlanHope2013

5 жыл бұрын

Middlemarch is her masterpiece, and possibly the best English novel ever. I recommend it heartily. And of course ToTC is a novel, although many if not most of Dickens' works were originally published as serials in magazine, one chapter at a time. How infuriating would that be?

@mmb628jr2

5 жыл бұрын

Alan Hope I'm gonna have audible middle march... I have a Adam Bebe on the shelf been meaning to Read- but it's intimidating.

@AlanHope2013

5 жыл бұрын

@@mmb628jr2 I have a thing against audio books, especially literary novels. Two things: the voices in my head cannot be replaced with one voice covering all. That's like ordering the seafood platter and it comes out all clams. Second: it doesn't offer the chance to go back and read that paragraph again, whether you didn't quite grasp the thought behind it, or you just want to savour the writing, eat it all up and lick the plate. I'm sure it is intimidating, but that's a good thing. I haven't tackled Adam Bede, myself. So I have no opinion I'm afraid.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Mostly because I read it as a kid and I get all nostalgic from reading it.

At least say freaking Harry Potter or something for crying out loud!...

@waqqas_the_wicked

5 жыл бұрын

That's what I was waiting to hear

@CT-um7zq

5 жыл бұрын

Or twilight. I mean, just Breaking Dawn was nearly 900 pages.

@holisticcritic9267

5 жыл бұрын

Harry Potter billboard is in the background lol

@igot5onit423

5 жыл бұрын

As much as I hate to admit it other than school work... the only books I've ever read are Goosebump books when I was a little kid and the Harry potter series

@phantommagnolia

5 жыл бұрын

I'd rather say nothing than Harry Potter

“White teeth” by zadie Smith was a Nobel I read repeatedly in college. In high school, “Beloved” confused, challenged, and surprisingly entertained. It was difficult but somehow rewarding to me as a high schooler. I hated anything Charles dickens...they made us read so much of him.

@bleumarin1968

5 жыл бұрын

I just started reading Swing Time. It's my first book from her.

I know they selected the few people that don't read to make a joke, but I would be interested in what people they found on the streets did like as their favorite novel

There are too many. That’s why I carry 900 books on my Kobo. Authors I love include Dumas, Sanderson, Shakespeare, Austen, Tolkien, Lewis, Bradbury, Card, and so many more. I can’t name a favorite. Fantasy = Lord of the Rings and the Stormlight series Classic = Pride & Prejudice, As You Like It, The Once and Future King (and anything about King Arthur) and the Count of Monte Cristo Science Fiction: Dune and the Enders Quintet Children: Greta the Strong, and the Hero and the Crown YA: Skyward If I could only read the one book for the rest of my life: The Holy Bible (KJV)

This video wrecked my heart 💔

As a high school English teacher, I have read large portions, if not whole books to my classes, because they do NOT read anything but texts on their phones.

@intimi28

5 жыл бұрын

You probably shouldn't. How are they ever going to learn if you facilitate them? Why don't you have them read a book and do a test on it that counts for their grade? Part of my high school exam grade was reading 16 books from my own language (Dutch), 12 books for English (mandatory 2nd language), 10 books for French and also 10 for German (the latter two only if you were graduating in these languages). My nephew just told me it's still part of high school exams 22 years later here in the Netherlands.

@JaneDoe-ci3gj

5 жыл бұрын

I think being read to can be a great introduction to reading.

@intimi28

5 жыл бұрын

@@JaneDoe-ci3gj, I agree, but more for kids in lower school. Kids in high school should have enough reading skills to read themselves.

Crime and punishment by Doestovesky

Surprised I haven’t seen a comment for this yet but, “The Great Gatsby” by Fitzgerald.

Should’ve asked outside of bookstores!

I'm in college specializing in communication and literature... I just can't believe it!! The Bible as a novel!? 😤😤 What is a novel? "A book" whaaat!? They could have said something like The Lord of the Rings, The Chronics of Narnia or half of the Hollywood movies that exist now... even 50 Shades of Gray would be valid!!!! So frustrating!!

@Cashwisdom94

3 жыл бұрын

Na people like to be stupid... stupid is easier. People prefer to get “fed” facts and literature through television or the internet so they don’t have to do the work and think for themselves.

Imagine admitting that you don’t read and laughing. How embarrassing and depressing.

This explains so much about America...

I read 25 novels, more or less, every year. I used to read more, but internet. My favorite novel would be The Algebraist, by Iain M. Banks.

“On the Road” Kerouac/Beat Generation >

@SimonePhoenix

5 жыл бұрын

Daulton Bruner YES!!! I LOVE that book, have read It countless times 👍🏽

@jimmwang6050

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly the same as mine. Thanks Daulton Bruner, I was holding a very little possibility scrolling down to see if anyone mentioned this great book.

2 mins silence for those... Who thought theyd find their favorite novel here... Ps. Me too😀

Interviewer: What's a novel? Woman: A book. Interviewer: So...name a novel? Woman: Umm...the BIBLE? Killed me

My favorite is A ClockWork Orange by Anthony Burgess

The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien!

East of Eden

So many. How does one choose? Slaughter House Five, The Man Who Fell to Earth, 1984, The Great Gatsby, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Old Man and the Sea, and on and on...

catch 22, gone with the wind, desert solitaire, roots, david copperfield...

Stephan king 'it '

Started thinking to myself I should pick up a freaking book and read once in a while .. Jesus it's sad no one really reads books anymore

Gabriel García Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude

My all-time favorite book is "The Walking Drum" by Louis L'Amour.

Bram Stoker ' s Dracula

Nobody asked me but here's my answer anyway : The Silence of the Lambs. And in German The Perfume.

@intimi28

5 жыл бұрын

In German: Schachnovelle by Stephan Zweig. It was simple and intricate at the same time.

@Nullifidian

5 жыл бұрын

My favorite German work, although a novella, is _Der Tod in Venedig_ ( _Death in Venice_ ) by Thomas Mann. It blew me away when I first read it at the age of sixteen and it has lost none of its power in the many times I've reread it since then. _Der Prozeß_ ( _The Trial_ ) and _Das Schloß_ ( _The Castle_ ) by Franz Kafka are effectively tied with Mann's work. I'm especially obsessed with _Der Prozeß_ . Not only do I have the book in the German original and several English translations, but I also have two film versions of it (the one Orson Welles directed with Anthony Perkins in the lead role and the one scripted by Harold Pinter with Kyle MacLachlan in the lead role), a script of a theatrical adaptation by Jean-Louis Barrault and André Gide, an operatic adaptation by Gottfried von Einem, and I've traveled to Munich for the express purpose of seeing it performed at the Münchner Kammerspiele.

@amnajaved6894

5 жыл бұрын

The perfume is so simple and mind boggling

@AlanHope2013

5 жыл бұрын

@@intimi28 Zweig is a wonderful author who only wrote one full-length novel but tons of novellas and short stories. I think you must be the only person online or in real life I've ever come across who's even aware of his work, outside of the lit blogs.

@intimi28

5 жыл бұрын

@@AlanHope2013, I must admit I had to read it for my high school exam for German literature and I purposefully picked thin books for German (I also had to read 16 books for my native Dutch, 12 for English and 10 for French). I was pleasantly surprised by Schachnovelle and have reread it a couple of times in the 22 years since high school.

Can somebody find me a clip of the old woman talking about giovannis room at a bookstore🥺

The Catcher in the Rye

Ouch, well people, you really don't know what you are missing.. Literally. It does explain a lot though. You will learn a lot more about the world reading a novel that you will anything on facebook. If you find the thickness of the book intimidating, give audio books a try. They should of followed up with, do you ever watch PBS... The answers would have been the same.

Easy For whom the bell tolls

I am the only one in my group of friends who reads! Wuthering Heights is my favorite, then Game of Thrones, waiting for next book to come out. It is a shame more don't have the pleasure you can get from reading novels. I couldn't imagine life without reading books.

@derekviveiros2145

5 жыл бұрын

congrats -_-

Half of a yellow sun - Chimamanda Ngozi

If that would have been me I would start giving out a list of novels to read plus rate them 😊😅 Lol

The Stand by Stephen King is a great American novel. Shady government conspiracies, global apocalyptic pandemic, dystopian landscape, incredible characters and some old fashioned good vs. evil. Love it! Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett is another fave, fascinating dive into all aspects of medieval life in England, and so well written, couldn't put either of these down.

@benjaminwulf914

Жыл бұрын

I just finished Pillars of the Earth, and read The Stand about a year ago. Both of them were among the best books I've read.

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo and the Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

Call me Ishmael... A joke for the last dude. Hollah if you're so nerdy your first thought was "how could I pick only one?!" 😂

@Nullifidian

5 жыл бұрын

Well, years back I had an English professor who had us all introduce ourselves by saying our favorite book, so I've used the one I picked then, Giovanni Boccaccio's _Decameron_ , as my go-to answer whenever I'm asked this question. It is the one I've probably reread the most, so it's still a legitimate choice. I'm reading it right now and enjoying it as much as I ever did. However, I do prefer Goodreads' approach, where you can pick any number of books as your "favorite" merely by ticking a box and the first eleven in your favorites shelf will be displayed on your profile (unless you change your profile to display some other shelf). Out of the top eleven on mine, six are novels ( _The Decameron_ by Giovanni Boccaccio, of course, _The Name of the Rose_ by Umberto Eco, _The House of Mirth_ by Edith Wharton, _The Trial_ by Franz Kafka, _The Death of the Gods_ by Dmitri Merezhkovsky, and _Erasure_ by Percival Everett), three are nonfiction ( _History of the Peloponnesian War_ by Thucydides, _The Book of Margery Kempe_ and _Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist_ by Alexander Berkman), one is a short story collection ( _Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings_ by Jorge Luis Borges), and one is an epic poem ( _The Metamorphoses_ by Ovid). And even then I can name tons of other favorites that didn't make those top 11 spaces.

@jillniemczynski5517

5 жыл бұрын

DIVINE COMMERCE Hi. I've read thousands of books in my lifetime, & no, I could never pick just one. I'm a nerd, & proud of it! Have a great day! 👋✌👍😀📚📖