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Originally Posted by DrNefario
I think I like some books maybe more than they deserve because of the time I read them and the mood I was in. Some things have probably aged badly. Some things I don't remember that well. And I'm not someone who goes around giving everything a star rating.
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Yeah, all of this. But I've been thinking about it and I've decided that my criterion is the noise the books make inside my head, even after years or decades. This of course tends to skew it towards books I read long ago and I admit I do filter out books on the junkier side, especially books I read in adolescence (
Gone with the Wind, Graustark, Prisoner of Zenda I'm looking at all of you). In the end, it's mostly the first books that popped into my head and that seems fair enough. Hit ten and stop. Or in the case of my nonfiction list, eleven. I'm not sure I can bear to eliminate one.
I'll get around to posting my lists later.