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Tophat665 · 11-04-2007, 01:42 PM

Sorry, this list is wrong. I have read 51 of the books on it, but seriously, All the Harry Potters? Damn Near All the Terry Pratchett? Pretty much all of the Roald Dahl? ONE Kipling? No Zelazney, Moorcock, Heinlein? And what the suffering fuck are VC Andrews and RL Stine doing there?

That said there are a lot of good books on there and a lot of books that everyone has to read to survive high school because they're "seminal" whatever that means. I guess the pages stick together. (I know what it means, but seriously, John Steinbeck was one hell of a typist.) But overall that list is full of Fail.

All Best X Y of Z lists are wrong because only the reader knows anything about Y.

11-04-2007, 01:42 PM	#8 (permalink)
Tophat665 Minion of the scaléd ones Location: Northeast Jesusland	Sorry, this list is wrong. I have read 51 of the books on it, but seriously, All the Harry Potters? Damn Near All the Terry Pratchett? Pretty much all of the Roald Dahl? ONE Kipling? No Zelazney, Moorcock, Heinlein? And what the suffering fuck are VC Andrews and RL Stine doing there? That said there are a lot of good books on there and a lot of books that everyone has to read to survive high school because they're "seminal" whatever that means. I guess the pages stick together. (I know what it means, but seriously, John Steinbeck was one hell of a typist.) But overall that list is full of Fail. All Best X Y of Z lists are wrong because only the reader knows anything about Y. __________________ Light a man a fire, and he will be warm while it burns. Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life.