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  • Has anyone read S.V.Bodle's Planet Treasure Guardian Series?

    greatbooks.ec.pn I will check it out thanks

  • An absolutely fantastic series full of magic, adventure, sci-fi, fantasy, trickery and escapes. I would highly recommend them for kids 8-16, parents and teachers of intelligent, clever kids and teenagers

  • THE LORD OF THE RINGS?

  • HUNGER GAMES TRILOGY!!!!!!

  • TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD! and Ulysses? :O

  • Okay, how about stop asking where all the freaking books that your English Lit. teacher assigned to you and accept that maybe she doesn't like monotonous Russian literature? k thanks.

  • cool? cool.

  • will after watching this video i thought this is a video that i did when to end it was will informed.thank for you Pinion if only there were more people like you out there.

  • I liked your list. It was better than most 'best books ever' lists, which only contain cheesey YA novels.

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  • HITCH HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY!!!!!!!!

  • Let me guess, your an opinionated teen atheist

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  • What about ANY book in the Last Dragon Chronicles by Chris D'lacey?!

  • @ferriswheelablaze fair enough. I do enjoy Catch 22, and I liked your review of it.

  • @Laker34 everything in the life is fucking personal and depends by perspective, feelings, beliefs, desires, discoveries ecc so every act as critic as "read before to making bla bla bla" is useless and before make change the people around u, just see into urself why u need to criticize what u dont like :) :) :) :) :) we should learn to share our point of view, and if samething is different we should learn to accept it. that's it.

    sorry about my eng, isnt my language :) bye men

  • @bad88k Hmm well considering i don't know what the fuck you just said Im just going to ignore that last comment.

  • @Laker34 great! go on:)

  • I dont trust women, they even think "paranormal activity" is scary.......sooooo, i prefer to skip your books :)

  • nice hair -_-

  • Although I like a few of the books on your list, I don't think they should be in the top five, and I'm saying this from a writer's perspective. Sentence structure, flow, style: these are all factors, and the writers in some of your top five aren't excellent in one, many or all of those areas. Because I'm competitive, my top five list:

    1. THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN.

    2. LOLITA.

    3. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE.

    4. NOBODY'S BOY.

    5. SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5.

    ...

    6. THE PRINCESS BRIDE.

    7. CANDIDE.

  • 1, the kite runner

    2, boy in the striped pajamas

    3, a child called it - Dave pelzer

    4, a lion called Christian

    5, twilight - not like the other 4 but I enjoyed the read

  • How can Harry Potter not be in that list?

  • @CessiCecilie IKR im readin the sorcerors stone right now and it BEAST!

  • Nah. Not all characters aren't insane in Catch-22. Only Yossarian is sane. ;)

  • Below I meant book

  • You should read See ya, Simon by David hill it is so sad and you should also read Bag of Bones by Stephen King. They would be your sort of bool.

  • Cuz your WRONG, BITCH!!

    I'd say those books sounds stupid; aint got no styyyyle muthafucker!

    my favorites have been

    Swann's Way (proust)

    The Man Without Qualities (musil)

    and you can never go wrong with "1982" (lol)

    seriously though, that book is tha shit

  • I'm not saying you're not right, but let's just say that this list is highly unlikely to remain unchanged if we ask you to write it again in 20 years.

  • YOU SHOULD READ JACOB HAVE I LOVED YOU its so sad

  • This list strikes me as a list for people who seek light entertainment from a book, i don't subscribe to any of the novels mentioned but hey im probably in the minority.

  • Carl Jungs "Man and his Symbols" written specifically before he died to introduce his revolutionary ideas, pertaining to human psychology, to a wide audience should be a must read for anyone looking for deeper understanding of themselves.

  • I've read one a many books, but no matter where I go I cannot find a book I read in the sixth grade titled "The Stone Gryphon" I am a teen now and I'm not sure if that's the exact title, but it's about a girl who finds a stone gryphon statue on her roof that comes alive at night. If any one knows where I can find it, I will love you for all time <3 :)

  • These are my favourite series'.

    5. Necronomicon- H.P Lovecraft

    4. Fight Club

    3. Lord of the Rings

    2. A Song on Ice and Fire

    1. The Night Angel Trilogy

  • my favroite books are

    the lost symbol

    the harry potter series

    but best of all

    the hunger games trilogie it will blow your mind

  • amber spyglass sounds like The golden Compass

  • @omaritorxs123 That's because its part of the same trilogy. Which I say in the video.

  • @ferriswheelablaze oh right sorry kind of skipped some parts... I FEEL RETARDED.

  • @Laker34 maybe YOU need to explore some MODERN masterpieces? jusss' saying :)

  • Well, that was nauseating.

  • I love Philip Pullman, naww it was so sad. You should read Diana Gabaldon and Jean M Untinen Auel and there's so many books we don't have time for all of them :(

  • you're soo eloquent!

  • ...in my opinion Fight Club is Chuck's worst book. All of his stuff is great, but it's my least favorite. Invisible Monsters is probably his best, but I also like Rant, Haunted, and Lullaby quite a bit.

  • @ferriswheelablaze PLEASE read the hunger games . You wont regret it .

  • how can you not have the catcher in the rye? or flowers for algernon.

  • @gengspatton Because Catcher In The Rye is a TERRIBLE BOOK.

  • @ferriswheelablaze agreed lolz I hate that book with a burning passion.

  • @ferriswheelablaze What about the Rabbit books by John Updike? Have u read those yet?

  • fix that hair lady

  • I thought God was already dead?

  • @TheHumanFiction nah man i'm still kicking just been working in homebase keepig a low profile, its boring but its money at the end of the day you know it anit easy being a single parent and someone needs to put bread, fish and wine on the table for lil jesus he anit gonna do it him self is he?? who said i was dead? bit rude if you ask me, anyway gotta go eastenders is starting and i can't bare to miss a single one, peace and love and all that ...in a bit.

  • @ferriswheelablaze hello there you know i had a book once, lovely and sqaure it was anyway the problem is i fucked it too much and the pages turned to mush, so i was wondering how do you manage to over come this problem??

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  • Anyone seen any video reviews or read any online reviews about the e-book

    April Curran Meets the Vampire of Crimson Cove High School?

  • Very good

  • I love fight club and it is my favorite movie, however, it is not my favorite chuck palahniuk book. I do love all of his books, but my favorite would have to be survivor, If you haven't read it, it is a really good read. Also, fun fact, panic at the disco used a quote from survivor as a song title, the only difference between martyrdom and suicide is press coverage.

  • No top 5 should ever be without The Great Gatsby

  • @JCook3123 I loathe The Great Gatsby.

  • @ferriswheelablaze Miserable lol

  • @ferriswheelablaze WHY? If you like Kurt Vonnegut, Chuck Palahniuk, and Joseph Heller F. Scott would be perfect for you! You have a great taste in books.

  • @ferriswheelablaze why you didn't pick the hunger games its a awsome book!!!

  • @ferriswheelablaze Could you explain to me why please?

  • Ten Little Indians ^^

  • LOL Top 5 Books Of All Time LMAO

    Those are the only 5 books this nerd has ever read.

    The Holy Bible should be on anyones top 5

  • Have you read “Discover the Gift?” I’d love to hear your thoughts on it, and I also hear they made a movie about it. BTW this list is a great list of books. I can’t wait to see your next video!

  • Where is Ulysses?

  • You're cute

  • I don't know why, but you sort of remind me of Molly Ringwald back in the 80's. No idea why. First video I see of you, and I'm off to check out more :D

  • pretty good list, Palahniuk is my favorite author. My first Palahniuk book was Fight Club and i thought it would never be topped either, but then i read Invisible Monsters and they are pretty neck and neck, if you havent read check it out. And also i read above that you're reading the stranger by Camus, that was another one of my favorite books, good reads. Keep posting book videos please

  • @juggernaut3d I loved the giver

  • an interesting list. please try my list. search for the greatest books in the whole world

  • how about the last lecture? it's really short but says a lot.

  • What about some love for James Joyce. 'Ulysses' pretty much dominates 20th century literature.

  • THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR NOT HAVING TWILIGHT OR HARRY POTTER ON THE LIST. It's like everyone has heard of those two books. I have been looking for a book to read and have gone through at-least 50 my top books videos on YT. The Cats cradle sound very interesting.

  • when it comes to kurt vonnegut its gotta be breakfast of champions + a greatest book list without catcher in the rye is not a list of great books at all

  • @TalaBumbleBees excellent choice! those books are amazing and im confused as to why she didnt include them

  • 5. The Giver

    4. Brave New World

    3. 1984

    2. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

    1. The Great Gatsby

  • @stevel920 nuber 2, 1 , and 5 are excellent books but i havent read the others if you like maya angelou... check out the poem still i rise great poem

    (number 2 is by maya angelou)

  • hey i think u r a great selector when it comes to deal with books. i finish reading cats cradle, its an awesome book. im goin to read the rest of ur top five, tnx alot for this video.

  • hey i u need to read some awesome books, check out:

    1) to kill a mockingbird (harper lee)

    2) lord of the rings ( jrr tolkien)

    3) catcher in the rye (J. D. Salinge)

    4) 1982 (George Orwell)

    check out those 4 novels they r my favorite. thumbs up if one of ur favourite books are in the list.

  • @godsonnasar Well, its 1984, not 1982. But I agree, those are all fantastic books. I've actually already read all of them.

  • yeah its 1984, sorry.......btw have u read wings of falcon, its an awesome novel

  • @ferriswheelablaze except Catcher In The Rye, which is not a fantastic book. But I have read it.

  • @ferriswheelablaze Catcher in the Rye is either a love it or hate it book. I for one loved it, but I understand that it may not be everyone's cup of tea.

  • 1. Fight club

    2. Fight club

    3. Fight club

    4. Fight club

    5. Fight club

  • @godsonnasar LORD OF THE RINGS!! its always out of stock at Barnes and Nobels.. :(

  • @HouseofNightfan654 TRUE...I i got my collection at a book store in the mall, it was on sale :)

  • @godsonnasar FUCK CATCHER IN THE RYE CAN'T STAND THAT STUPID SPOILT BRAT HE SHOULD HAVE DIED AT THE END SORRY IF I OFFEND ANYONE BUT GOT FORCED TO COVER IT FOR GCSE AND I IT SUCKED

  • @boibfrof well too bad if u dont like the book but there is lots of people who think it awesome

  • @godsonnasar 1984 dumbass

  • @godsonnasar *1984.

  • 'Bigger Book' try reading Atlas Shrugged. Took me a week of solid reading. But anyway nice list, some interesting choices.

  • @eckfloor I've read The Fountainhead and I have to admit I really hated it. Perhaps Atlas Shrugged ISNT just more of the same though.

  • @ferriswheelablaze Don't worry. I hated Atlas Shrugged. Not much of a philosopher but I thought I'd give it a try anyway.

  • @ferriswheelablaze Atlas Shrugged is an absolutely terrible book.

  • 'cool? cool' ... vip are you?

  • lol teenagers.

  • I have read thoes books and Ptrick Carman is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better you should try his books first read the Land Of Elyon Series

    The Hunger Games is a Great Bookalso

  • I have read thoes books and Ptrick Carman is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better you should try his books first read the Land Of Elyon Series

  • How are you so well spoken? Are you studying literature?

  • i reccommend the hunger games.

  • 1.Crime and punishment- Fyodor Dostoevsky.

    2.Desolation angels-Jack kerouac

    3.A clockwork orange-Anthony Burgess

    4.Watchmen-Alan Moore

    5.The picture of dorian gray-Oscar Wilde

    p.s shame on you for the MCR poster

  • My chemical romance!!! The Black Parade!!!! :D Also, i love your hair!

  • Good books, read em all. I recently read a three book series by Suzanne Collins. I believe it is being turned into a movie, but never the less, it is a great story that makes you hunger for more. No its not a pun.The three books go as listed, you should at least take a chance to read the first one, if you get pulled in like i do then im sure you will continue on with the story like i did

    1. The Hunger Games

    2.Catching Fire

    3. Mockingjay

    Great books that i hope you take a chance to read.

  • @TalaBumbleBees

    the hunger games sucks!!!!!!!!! every single one of them r terrible! read a true book like the giver or to kill a mockingjay or evn crank the series is like books or something but read something diffrent those r terrible

  • Your damn wrong. Best 3 Books: the Lord of the rings 1-3 and the hobbit

  • hey, do me a BJ. You are so confident in what you are saying that I really wanna to test your confidence in real deal. I think you will do good, your mouth opens very wise every time. And never try to measure the world with your awkward slutty dark perception. It is just hilarious.

  • @eXTreemator

    Says the moron who can't spell correctly.

  • I absolutely LOVE your hair

  • I was actually cheering in front of my laptop when you brought up fight club

  • Modern French Litterature:

    Best female voice novel: Whore - Nelly Arcan

    Best male voice novel: The Life Before Us - Romain Gary (Aka Emile Ajar)

    Both translated from french.

    Also worth learning french for: les particules élémentaires, l'avalée des avalées, l'écume des jours and everything Albert Camus wrote (including his chronicles as a journalist - most talented and interesting writer I ever came across).

  • @DragAmiot I've taken three years of french actually, and studied in Paris last summer. I'm working on reading L'Etranger and L'existentialisme est une humanisme. (I don't know how to put the accents in! ah!)

  • Thank you for taking your time to make this video! Very helpful, I'm going to start reading the books suggested immediately. :)

  • his dark materiels, one of my favourite series of books ever! cant wait fot the Book of Dust to finally come out....pullmans had that one in the lab for years

  • smart girl

  • That's it... I'm gonna read catch22.. Have been putting it off for months now, but you convinced me. Nice video by the way.

  • MCR is in the background, those guys are the best

  • below the final installment of harry potter, and the song of fire and ice series as well. Great job on camera by the way, its not easy to present such a strong opinion on an extremely arguable topic such as this.

  • I have read all the books on that list except for catch 22, judging by these specific choices it would seem we are attracted to different qualities in novels. However much i enjoy the in the moment action packed dan brown-esque books, the ones i find i get truly enraptured by are books that play upon fantasy and develop characters over a longer period of time, allowing you to sort of "grow up" with the character. For those reasons i would put the amber spyglass atop your list, but also (cont'd)

  • where's catcher in the rye? i agree with his dark matierials btw

  • I really like your personality! And those book sound wonderful, i really am not into those vampire books, or whatevea, like an other NORMAL teen my age. Well who said I was normal. :)

  • @snackbox1989 The Lost Symbol was pretty good, though i felt like i could see the ending coming a mile away. The problem with Dan Brown is that if you've read one of his books, you've read all of his books. Fun read, but its sort of disappointing when you're guessing who the antagonist is throughout the book only to be right in the end.

  • "all the characters are insane" that's the best way in reviewing catch-22.

    i have it on # 4 or 3 though. You should try some of Haruki Murakami's works or Carlos Ruiz Zafon's.

  • @98latinlover lol what's with you and saying kid ?

  • You sound over confident, arrogant and self centered. I kinda like it. You sound like you'd have a dark sense of humor... which is besides the point.

    Will definitely consider reading these books... except for Catch 22 because i hate war related, well, anything. Kind of sad since it's your number one pick but oh well :/

    I think you should read/ watch Death Note. You might like it. It's an anime and a manga but don't judge because it really is incredibly clever. 

  • I like Catcher in the Rye :)

  • @Toro953 the what?

  • YES! I love the phillup pullman!

  • no nabokov, bellow, or kafka.. this is some shitty list. but the kurt vonnegut book is good but not as good as slaughter house 5

  • The Amber Spyglass is the best book around! That's my opinion. I don't agree with a LOT of things in it but I love the relationship between them.

  • Quick Weed? Nah, I am kidding we all make mistakes. :)

  • um ateu escrevendo livros para crianças, que conveniente.

  • I was the the person they based Tyler Derden on Tyler Smith.

    Catch 22 is over rated. It is very melo dramatic.

  • fight club......

  • Great analysis.

  • Hyperbole indeed.

  • You are really hot!

  • have Fight Club and Catch 22

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  • You can't even place things in an order because they are so different and unique on their own! But this is too much 90's stuff no middle age stuff. But the BIBLE, BIBLE, BIBLE, BIBLE, BIBLE. Mostly the New Testament is some of the best knowledge ever written! Without it half of literature wouldn't be created. So do testify about 5 billion people!

  • THAT CALLED "CONFIDENCE" FOR YOU IT IS NOTHING BUT JUST BAD ATTITUDE... YOU NEED TO HAVE HUMILITY GIRL!

  • You should read 'The Collapsing Corned-beef Sandwich' by Colin-Scott Montgomery. It's a tasty treat and a real page-turner.

  • 5: the idiot (Dostoyevsky)

    4: grapes of wrath (Steinbeck)

    3: the book theif (Marcus zusak)

    2: the catcher in the rye (j d salinger)

    1: to kill a mockingbird (harper lee)

    There are many other thought provoking even inspirational books but these are the 5 that speak to me the most

  • J.R.R Tolkien - Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings, Frank Herbert's saga of Dune

  • i LOVE your review. mainly your "confidences", loud and right to the point ... way of talking.. just love it :)

  • the last dog on earth is my favorite book

  • Palanuik books are all the same, most writers have a recognisable style, but they gnerally mature or try different things. All Palanuik books read exactly the same, they contain the same elements and are written the appeal to the exact same audience.

  • @otherjr I've definately met some of those Fight Club fans with the Che shirts, who read Pitchfork and try to listen to the most obscure music just to fit in with all the people who don't fit in.. but with that aside I love Fight Club (the book and movie), and I don't fit that alternative stereotype.. and I'm not the only one.

  • Everyone I know who 'just loves' Palanuik dresses and thinks the same. These are the people who wear Che T Shirts, dye their hair, and undulge in a false liberalism they rarely follow through on. Basically the sort of people who try and be alternative by following what society says is alternative. They try and read Nietzsche and Satre, likely to talk about The Catcher in the Rye a lot, they choose their reading material like they pick their clothes: What suits my alternative image?

  • I dont know, the way I see it Fight Club, and usually the people the talk about how great it is, are really just an example of what the book is supposedly attacking. You can talk about a 'scathing diatribe against commercialism' all you want, but really those Palanhuik books just seem to be targetting a demographic and exploiting it more than doing or saying anything original. Its all stupid twists, nihalism, bland pseudo intellectual philosophy about 'how fucked up the world is.'

  • I hope that you keep a copy of this video so that you might watch it twenty or thirty years from now. If you read widely and carefully, John Irving, Chuck Palahniuk, etc. might not make it in the top 500 books you'll ever read. There's a lot more out there than what's been mass-marketed to American audiences in the short time of your life.

  • I LOVE Cat's Cradle!!!!!

    

  • what about atlas shrugged .......i think its a great book i think...........what do u think?

  • breathless by jessica warman is my favorite book

  • "welcome to the monkey house" is my fave Vonnegut

  • @MaryEGodfrey

    I've had that book on my bookshelf for a while now, what's it about?

  • @ledzeppelinloverx91 it's a series of short stories. My favorite is "Harrison Bergeron."

  • surprisingly good list thanks, subscribed for more.