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Originally Posted by Slite
Isn't what makes a book great kind of a subjective thing?
Sort of like "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"?
I mean, a book that I consider great the next person might find it one of the suckiest pieces of camelid excrement ever.
So, making up a list of "great books" is meaningless IMHO.
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I think there are some authors whom it's generally agreed are "great", regardless of whether or not one personally enjoys them. I'd include in that list such authors as Plato, Shakespeare, and Dickens.
There's a difference, I think, between "great" books (in which the greatness might be said to be "inherent") and books which one personally enjoys reading. Eg, I enjoy reading "Harry Potter", but it certainly isn't "great literature". On the other hand, I also enjoy reading "The Lord of the Rings" which many people might say
is, in that it was basically the origin of a whole new literary genre.