Young Writers Society

We need a seperate thread for this, I think, otherwise we're going off-topic. I've posted one in the Randomness forum.

It's too much of an effort

This looks like the thing: http://www.wanderlist.com/bestbooks

Oh dear. That didn't work. Nearly twelve posts were put before mine while I was writing it, and the subject changed completely. Sorry, everybody!

Goldie

I'm sick to death this book is even on that list:

Rush Limbaugh is a big FAT idiot; by Al Franken

I am getting a bit confused. Where is this subject suppose to go now? What are we discussing, Eragon or top 100 books?

Goldie

We're making our own Top 100. If you want to nominate, there should be a couple threads open in the Book Reviews forum soon.

Should we lump book series together? Or keep the books separate?

Sean Pendr wrote:i personally think that that list is entirly wrong and anyone who discredits poalini's work is just jealous that he was so succesful in a time of 3 years and at his young age. take that bleah!

I think it's better to take 20 years to write one GOOD novel at the age of 50 then write two bad novels in less than five years as a teenager. Paolini's books are pretty bad, from what I've *managed* to read.

This is just me, but I would have loved to see Charles Fraizer's Cold Mountain on the list. His book, in my opinion, is the best I have ever read.

Propose it for the YWS Top 100 Recent Books list!

I think this sean pendr fool is actually Paolini in disguise. Having said that, I'm glad my outrage is shared. And yay for Inertia becoming a Writerorian.

The List:

1. Harry Potter.
2. Da Vinci Code
3.Lord of the Rings
4.Pride and Prejudice
5.To Kill a Mockingbird.
6.The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
7. Memoirs of a Geisha
8.My sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
9.Magician by Raymond.e.feist
10. Angels and Demons--Dan brown
11. Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
12.The Bronze Horseman by Paulina Simons
13. It, Stephen King.
14. The Lovely Bones
15. April Fools Day, Bryce Courtenay.
16. Mao's Last Dancer
17. Eragon -- It was even higher then I thought!!
18. The Hobbit
19. Gone With the Wind
20. Good News Bible.

24. Hitch Hiker's Guide
25. Wuthering Heights.
26. Nineteen Eighty Four

Oh and Inertia--Catch 22 is number 50. And yeah lol. Its little more then a popularity contest I'm afraid so in that sense surely any nominated list wouldn't be accurate???

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Clau--those books you mentioned are numbers 82 and 84 respectively. Anna Kareina and War and Peace that is, by Tolstoy.

Jiggity wrote:I think this sean pendr fool is actually Paolini in disguise. Having said that, I'm glad my outrage is shared. And yay for Inertia becoming a Writerorian.

Erm, are you sure he isn't PAT BUCHANAN? XD

Wow, that is a weird list. Harry Potter is first? That's... weird. Don't get me wrong, I love the books, but I don't think they deserve to be in the top twenty-five greatest 100 books. Sorry, Jo, but I think Wilde, Austen, Steinbeck, Tolkien, Lewis, Chaucer, Homer, and Dante.

This list isn't as horrendous as I had thought, though it is still... odd. It should be narrowed to a select time period or something. I'm glad to see Pride and Prejudice, To Kill A Mockingbird, and 1984. I read The Lovely Bones and Memoirs of a Geisha this past semester, and they were both excellent books. I don't know about top 100, because WHERE ARE THE REST OF THE CLASSICS?! but they're still very well-written, and each gripping in its own way.

*mouth drops open*

...Why?...Why?...Why is Eragon and Da Vinci Code above the Bible?

Is it just me or is there something very very very scary about that.

DarkLight

Its just you. Im surprised the Bible even made it there at all to be honest.

Well the Bible hardly counts, does it. It's not a novel, so people are unlikely to read it for the mere pleasure of doing so. It's there to serve a purpose, not come top in a book list.