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Yizahi 11 hours ago

Skimmed through the list.

First problem - it is gigantic. Statistically there is no chance that so many books are so revolutionary genius that they are on some other level etc.

Second problem - it is a generic top100/top500 style list, populated by exact same old "classic" fiction books like every other list on the internet.

There are some "above average" books intersperced in this list, but a casual reader will not know how to find them among the books being there simply on the virtue of being good and 50-100 years old. Being old book is not a virtue, unless we are in a history class.

tarboreus 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Wow, 50 years, so old.

It strikes me as a pretty decent list. The books on here I've read (maybe 30%) are worthy of recommendation.

People always get offended by lists, I've noticed.

vidarh 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Most of them are worthy of recommendation, but few of them are "mindfucks". Very few have ideas that are particularly out there or unusual.