I teach and must say schools aren’t fully to blame. Teachers have to teach a test which sucks any fun and enjoyment out of learning especially reading. Students read long random passages now and answer questions about it. I would also hate to read if that was my exposure to literature.
Linnet Husi My consolation is that they edit these lips to use only the uninformed people. Hopefully, there were a lot of people questioned who got "cut" because the COULD name a novel!
theoryaction- That is what I think. But as Howard K Beale- "The I"m as Mad as Hell Newscaster from the great Movie= "Network"- "Less than 5 % of you read books." I am not sure if that less than 5% figure is accurate.
Of COURSE they edit it! They are trying to make a point, so they use what supports that point. You were taught to do the same thing when you were taught to write research papers.
@jmarks881 You wouldn't be saying that if you'd ever read one voluntarily. So having given away the fact you never have, your opinion becomes worthless.
That guy from Boston must be lying. How does one get out of school without reading a novel? Of course the difference is that those who are into books are the ones who watched the Great American Read which is far different from asking random pedestrians on the street in front of his studio. These are two entirely different groups of people who don't overlap.
@@slaughterhouse5309 Well, to answer your questions, I confess I identify with these people in a sense. I too don't read books when information and other forms of media are more readily available. It's fun to shame these people, but let's not make the mistake of assuming a certain intellectual superiority because of it.
@@franciscopinto6394 well one guy said he's reading Fear and the show wanted a non-fiction title. Literacy is not the only form of intelligence, but those asked didn't seem promising bunch.
Stephen King is my all-time favourite author and when I heard that guy say that "Pet Sematary" was his favourite novel, I was low-key excited and then he said that he has seen the movie, but not read the book because it's thick. I was a bit disappointed. Pet Sematary is one of his shorter works. Try reading IT if you don't believe me!(it's an awesome book but took me some time)
Yup we all think u can't read now cuz of a segment on a talk show where they clearly cut anybody that read because it disturbed the feel they were going for. Sure.
1.Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoievski 2. Ulysses James Joyce. 3. Chevengur. Andrei Platonov 4. War and peace. Lev Tolstoy 5. The sound and fury. William Faulkner 6. Blood meridian. Cormac McCarthy 7. Tale of two cities. Charles Dickens 8. Germinal. Emile Zola 9. Life and fate. Vassili Grossman 10. A confederacy of dunces. John Kennedy Toole.
I drew a blank when asked to name as many varieties of apples as I could. I am certain that being on a quiz show would be a greater challenge than coming up with the answers from my couch.
Can you guys please make a compilation of all the smart people with smart answers who you leave out of the videos? Just so we can all feel a bit better...
It's upsetting to see how little people read now a days. I'm 24, I just started picking up books again around 2 to 3 years ago. People always give me obnoxious looks and passive aggressive jokes when I'm seen reading or talk about a book I read, as if I'm attempting to act prestigious or something lol. Nothing that truly hurts my feelings or upsets me, I just find it humorous how obsolete people perceive books. Nothing can compare to immersing yourself into the right book for you. There's a story out there for everybody.
Really appreciate your thoughtful comment. I actually still read a print newspaper and it’s such a novelty I actually have gotten several free cups of coffee from servers.
It's happening more than ever that good books get picked up and turned into movies and tv shows. I think reading will become cool again when people start to realize you can read the source material months or years before the tv version comes out.
Reading had really fallen out of fashion about ten to fifteen years ago. Thanks to harry potter though, a lot of people got back into reading. Now with booktok ( tiktok book community) a lot of young people are reading (Sad but atleast its promoting a good habit).
Bro.....I never read any Tolkien books (because apparently his books are not available in my place) but with the help of the movies and some loyal and huge Tolkien fans, he became one of my favourite writers.
Damn! I hope they don't take away my passport. Of course, having a passport is un-American too, since it means going to foreign places and having contact with other peoples and cultures.
@@oneduality ah, I didn't know your belly button is called a navel. Probably would have got it if I knew that lol and lmao "if she wasn't my daughter, perhaps I'd date her" lmfao who says that 😂😂😂
just off the top of my head: tom sawyer lord of the flies jaws american psycho adventures of Huckleberry Finn catcher in the rye brave new world bram stoker's dracula Mary shelly's frankenstein the exorcist
Since people are chiming in with their favorite novels, I'll give mine: _The Decameron_ by Giovanni Boccaccio. It's a bit of an anomaly, because it consists of a hundred stories told over ten days by a _brigata_ of seven women and three men, but that frame narrative gives it just enough of an overarching structure for it to be considered a novel. If anyone is interested in checking it out, I highly recommend the Guido Waldman translation published by Oxford World's Classics. The translation is superb and the extensive endnotes are very useful for orienting oneself in Boccaccio's late medieval/early Renaissance world.
How aproachable is it for a normal reader? I have some respect for Dostoevsky and I fear I will have a tough time to get to his work. I read mostly fantasy, scifi and books about WW2 but I also really enjoyed classical writers like Steinbeck, Salinger, Orwell, Hemingway, Remarque and some others but I never read anything from a Russian author.
Radek Náprstek very much so. Dostoevsky is well known for being the first to write psychological thriller types of novels. Although I haven’t read “The Brothers Karamazov ”, “Crime and Punishment” was a great read and actually a bit laughable in some areas (forgive me if my humor seems a bit crass here).
Ouch! The book worm in me felt this like a stab in the heart! My favorite novel would have to be either Pride and Prejudice (I’ve read it 3x) or any of the seven Harry Potter books (read all of them 3x & will probably read them all for a 4th time)
omg i love pride and predjudice, my favourite by jane austen would be northanger abbey :) and i love the maze runner series and any grishaverse book, especially six of crows
The few novels that I have read: The adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. The lost symbol by Dan Brown. The name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe. I am not an avid fictional reader but I read non-fiction a lot. Philosophy, religion and history are my favourites. It is very sad to see that people are not reading at all.
Oooooh! Some of those are really good (I only know a couple of them). Digital Fortress is my favourite Dan Brown book. I absolutely loved that one. Haven't read The Lost Symbol yet, but I will definitely add these to my tbr pile. I haven't finished The Richest Man In Babylon. Sometimes a book has too many lessons to get through in one sitting and needs time and attention.
@@nikkimoon1533 Read Angels and Demons by Dan Brown and A case of exploding mangoes by Muhammad Hanif. These two novels, especially the one by Hanif are amazingly written.
Once I didn't watch TV for 5 yrs and I read lots of books but even my sister doesn't believe me. I've been a book lover since I was a little kid. My fav novels are "Count of Monte Cristo," and "Pride and Prejudice." Oh, and "Dracula."
Omg! Dracula was awesome! Took a while to pick up, but when it did... Hooooo boy! 👀 I could not put it down! Have you read Mary Shelly's Frankenstein? That book is a keeper. An absolutely delightful read. ❤️
@@nikkimoon1533 I haven't, actually. I have the book. I guess now I will. Thanks. Have you read "The Alienist?" Awesome book. Historical fiction of New York.
Out of all the novels I've read, probably the outsiders or holes would be my favorite. But the one novel I would highly recommend is Nineteen-eighty-four, that novel is the only one I've ever read front to back that wasn't part of a school curriculum. And as I get older, I can see why education systems don't allow classes to read that one.
“White teeth” by zadie Smith was a Nobel I read repeatedly in college. In high school, “Beloved” confused, challenged, and surprisingly entertained. It was difficult but somehow rewarding to me as a high schooler. I hated anything Charles dickens...they made us read so much of him.
Jørn Bjerregaard it' about teenage angst and is popular for some of the same reasons ""Rebel Without A Cause" is such a compelling movie ( that and James Dean's amazing performance). Coming of age stories are always going to speak to our young people from "Tom Sawyer" to "Mockingbird" ( I shortened the full titles for effect). It's what music does, also.
Still haven't read The Catcher in the Rye but my favorite is East of Eden. I know a lot of people say The Grapes of Wrath is the better of the two novels from Steinbeck but I love East of Eden so much more. Although, I will say this every American should read The Grapes of Wrath. I can't stress enough how relevant that book is to this day and it was written in 1939.
Bruh. Harry Potter! 🙄 How come no one mentioned Harry Potter, yet whenever you ask someone who doesn't actually read what their favourite novel is, they say, "The first Harry Potter." 🤣 personally, Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon is my favourite book. That book was action, love story, and so heartbreaking it made my freaking tears cry. 🥺 Very well written.
As a high school English teacher, I have read large portions, if not whole books to my classes, because they do NOT read anything but texts on their phones.
You probably shouldn't. How are they ever going to learn if you facilitate them? Why don't you have them read a book and do a test on it that counts for their grade? Part of my high school exam grade was reading 16 books from my own language (Dutch), 12 books for English (mandatory 2nd language), 10 books for French and also 10 for German (the latter two only if you were graduating in these languages). My nephew just told me it's still part of high school exams 22 years later here in the Netherlands.
I know they selected the few people that don't read to make a joke, but I would be interested in what people they found on the streets did like as their favorite novel
Tough question to pick just one-- Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry is my favorite, although I prefer reading his "short novel," The Forest Path to the Spring. RIchard Flanagan's novel, Gould's Book of Fish is right up there, too, but I think choosing just one is a bit ridiculous.
I bought _Gould's Book of Fish_ years ago for my Kindle, but it broke and I replaced it with a Kobo because the Kindle was no longer properly rendering files downloaded from Internet Archive. Since I only got my Kindle in the first place to read public domain books, this was a deal-breaker for me. But now I've lost access to all the books I bought, except by sitting at the computer and reading via their free desktop app. You're tempting me to make the effort for this book.
There was a time in my life when I'd read two books per week. Some I don't even remember the names of but I know their stories. It's been two months and I have not read fiction.
At least people who read know the difference between their and they're and how to use punctuation. You know, the things that come in handy when writing job application letters, work reports, RUclips comments, etc. Other than that books are great for critical thinking skills, for comprehensive reading skills and for imagination skills, since a reader needs to imagine the story in his mind rather than have it easily presented to them like with movies.
Jane Eyre - Emily Bronte Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger Persuasion - Jane Austen A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (So overrated commercially and made theatrical to a point that it's true story is often underrated); novellas should count!) Many Americans do enjoy non-fiction which I think is just as great!
As much as I hate to admit it other than school work... the only books I've ever read are Goosebump books when I was a little kid and the Harry potter series
So many. How does one choose? Slaughter House Five, The Man Who Fell to Earth, 1984, The Great Gatsby, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Old Man and the Sea, and on and on...
One of my favorite novels is "100 Years of Solitude" by Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Others are "The Pillars of the Earth" Ken Follet and "A world Without End" by the same author. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoi is a good read as well.
There are too many. That’s why I carry 900 books on my Kobo. Authors I love include Dumas, Sanderson, Shakespeare, Austen, Tolkien, Lewis, Bradbury, Card, and so many more. I can’t name a favorite. Fantasy = Lord of the Rings and the Stormlight series Classic = Pride & Prejudice, As You Like It, The Once and Future King (and anything about King Arthur) and the Count of Monte Cristo Science Fiction: Dune and the Enders Quintet Children: Greta the Strong, and the Hero and the Crown YA: Skyward If I could only read the one book for the rest of my life: The Holy Bible (KJV)
I'm in college specializing in communication and literature... I just can't believe it!! The Bible as a novel!? 😤😤 What is a novel? "A book" whaaat!? They could have said something like The Lord of the Rings, The Chronics of Narnia or half of the Hollywood movies that exist now... even 50 Shades of Gray would be valid!!!! So frustrating!!
Na people like to be stupid... stupid is easier. People prefer to get “fed” facts and literature through television or the internet so they don’t have to do the work and think for themselves.
My favorite German work, although a novella, is _Der Tod in Venedig_ ( _Death in Venice_ ) by Thomas Mann. It blew me away when I first read it at the age of sixteen and it has lost none of its power in the many times I've reread it since then. _Der Prozeß_ ( _The Trial_ ) and _Das Schloß_ ( _The Castle_ ) by Franz Kafka are effectively tied with Mann's work. I'm especially obsessed with _Der Prozeß_ . Not only do I have the book in the German original and several English translations, but I also have two film versions of it (the one Orson Welles directed with Anthony Perkins in the lead role and the one scripted by Harold Pinter with Kyle MacLachlan in the lead role), a script of a theatrical adaptation by Jean-Louis Barrault and André Gide, an operatic adaptation by Gottfried von Einem, and I've traveled to Munich for the express purpose of seeing it performed at the Münchner Kammerspiele.
@@intimi28 Zweig is a wonderful author who only wrote one full-length novel but tons of novellas and short stories. I think you must be the only person online or in real life I've ever come across who's even aware of his work, outside of the lit blogs.
@@AlanHope2013, I must admit I had to read it for my high school exam for German literature and I purposefully picked thin books for German (I also had to read 16 books for my native Dutch, 12 for English and 10 for French). I was pleasantly surprised by Schachnovelle and have reread it a couple of times in the 22 years since high school.
Ouch, well people, you really don't know what you are missing.. Literally. It does explain a lot though. You will learn a lot more about the world reading a novel that you will anything on facebook. If you find the thickness of the book intimidating, give audio books a try. They should of followed up with, do you ever watch PBS... The answers would have been the same.
Guillermo should come to Mexico and make this question, literally... People, sadly, thinks Novel (novela in Spanish) means telenovela(soap opera) I love when i hear people or they ask me and the answers are not in the same direction Hahahaha
Tale of Two Cities (if it counts as a novel), The Brothers Karamazov and The Famished Road by Ben Okri, Silas Marner by George Eliot is up there in my Tops.
Middlemarch is her masterpiece, and possibly the best English novel ever. I recommend it heartily. And of course ToTC is a novel, although many if not most of Dickens' works were originally published as serials in magazine, one chapter at a time. How infuriating would that be?
@@mmb628jr2 I have a thing against audio books, especially literary novels. Two things: the voices in my head cannot be replaced with one voice covering all. That's like ordering the seafood platter and it comes out all clams. Second: it doesn't offer the chance to go back and read that paragraph again, whether you didn't quite grasp the thought behind it, or you just want to savour the writing, eat it all up and lick the plate. I'm sure it is intimidating, but that's a good thing. I haven't tackled Adam Bede, myself. So I have no opinion I'm afraid.
I searched for it at so many book store but it's always sold out. So I searched at books even and guess what? It's already out of stock, I wonder if I ever going to get a chance to read it 😔
I think part of the reason the divorce rate is so high is because people get bored with each other after a short time, and then it goes downhill from there. My ex never read. None of her family read any books. I am very literate. I tried to get them interested. Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe mysteries are a great start. But they all ignored me. Eventually, we got divorced. And now my heart is forever broken. If I could do it over, I would make sure my spouse is a reader. Very few people are.
So sad. Even G.W. Bush had a favourite novel. OK, it was a children's book and he was 23 when "The very hungry Caterpillar" was published but at least it was a book he knew and could name. It is ashaming that there are people who never read a novel in their live.
Don't forget: he also read _The Stranger_ by Albert Camus. I remember a lot of people having fun with the implausibility of that when Bush's summer reading list was released. I guessed that Bush just felt a certain kinship toward a man who killed an Arab for no reason.
I am the only one in my group of friends who reads! Wuthering Heights is my favorite, then Game of Thrones, waiting for next book to come out. It is a shame more don't have the pleasure you can get from reading novels. I couldn't imagine life without reading books.
Sometimes I'm not at all bothered to be getting older and closer to the sweet release of death. As we get closer and closer to a full blown real life Idiocracy at least I'll only suffer through the first stages of it.
The Stand by Stephen King is a great American novel. Shady government conspiracies, global apocalyptic pandemic, dystopian landscape, incredible characters and some old fashioned good vs. evil. Love it! Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett is another fave, fascinating dive into all aspects of medieval life in England, and so well written, couldn't put either of these down.
This was a waste of time. I buy 2 novels every month. I read a lot, from Sarah Dessen's great works to Jenny Colgan and her creative and fun cafe novels. Let me never ever forget Mitch Albom and Tuesdays with Morrie because it makes me cry!!!
I was feeling all superior but then I remembered I’m just watching RUclips videos right now instead of reading
Get to work
It’s not like you have to be reading right now, just as long as you do read 🤗
Youre rigth i gona star whit Terry Pratchett
Just do what I do:
Watch while you cook; Read while you commute.
...unless you drive...that would be problematic.
Good Omens is my favorite for sure.
I feel like the question should’ve been “can you read?”
Hahahaha
*enter Tywin Lannister*
Lol!
Yes!
As a former lit professor , this breaks my heart. Our schools need to teach students how to spell and proper grammar and how to enjoy a great novel!
so what is your favorite novel? :)
I teach and must say schools aren’t fully to blame. Teachers have to teach a test which sucks any fun and enjoyment out of learning especially reading. Students read long random passages now and answer questions about it. I would also hate to read if that was my exposure to literature.
are you still lit?
Linnet Husi My consolation is that they edit these lips to use only the uninformed people. Hopefully, there were a lot of people questioned who got "cut" because the COULD name a novel!
@@NARKISDUDE lmao.
This would be better if you guys didn't edit out the smart people. I'm sure one person in LA has read a novel.
Exactly, and thank you.
I mean the notion that there are such people is slightly disconcerting anyway.
You’d be surprised
Doubt that ngl
theoryaction- That is what I think. But as Howard K Beale- "The I"m as Mad as Hell Newscaster from the great Movie= "Network"- "Less than 5 % of you read books." I am not sure if that less than 5% figure is accurate.
I've always wondered whether they edit this out in order to only show the dumb ones! cause these can't be the only ones they interview
Yeah, I live in Los Angeles and I've been asked about "Can you name a country". I'm pretty good at geography and named a lot, but I wasn't featured.
@@sammack1890 , they want to control public perception
Of COURSE they edit it! They are trying to make a point, so they use what supports that point. You were taught to do the same thing when you were taught to write research papers.
I’ve thought that too - pick out the people who will generate the most reaction.
….but, still
"Name a novel" "the Bible" -an answer so dumb it was unintentionally smart.
Jesus 😂😂 how have you never read a book
ethan sutton she's young. Kids don't do hard copy these days
My kids do! They love to read!! And my son is low vision so he switches from book to an iPad so his eyes don’t hurt.
vandeolkon so do I. I love reading books by 8th grade I was reading Stephen king books.
My favourite novel has to be Mr. Mercedes by him
i've never read a book and im a doctor
@jmarks881 You wouldn't be saying that if you'd ever read one voluntarily. So having given away the fact you never have, your opinion becomes worthless.
embarrasing...
How is this possible?
‘Merica.
That guy from Boston must be lying. How does one get out of school without reading a novel? Of course the difference is that those who are into books are the ones who watched the Great American Read which is far different from asking random pedestrians on the street in front of his studio. These are two entirely different groups of people who don't overlap.
@@slaughterhouse5309 Well, to answer your questions, I confess I identify with these people in a sense. I too don't read books when information and other forms of media are more readily available.
It's fun to shame these people, but let's not make the mistake of assuming a certain intellectual superiority because of it.
@@franciscopinto6394 well one guy said he's reading Fear and the show wanted a non-fiction title. Literacy is not the only form of intelligence, but those asked didn't seem promising bunch.
I weep for humanity.
I honestly thought that someone was going to say HARRY FREAKING POTTER!!!
Bible 😭😭😭
Is that the one where they have to destroy a ring on Mount Doom?
most bullshit,harmful book ever
Well...it is fiction.
Close enough lol
Well it is the oldest fiction book in history
My favorite novel is 1984 by George Orwell.
Yes! That's probably my favorite too.
Read more then
My man. Love that book as well
Well, nowadays you get the live-in experience. 😆
As a bookworm this video sincerely took years off my life lmao
Stephen King is my all-time favourite author and when I heard that guy say that "Pet Sematary" was his favourite novel, I was low-key excited and then he said that he has seen the movie, but not read the book because it's thick. I was a bit disappointed. Pet Sematary is one of his shorter works. Try reading IT if you don't believe me!(it's an awesome book but took me some time)
The stand is even thicker I guess
Robinson Crusoe. I remember day dreaming about it during class and running home after school to pick it up.
Omg this is such a good one hahahah. I hope the world doesn't think this represents all Americans though :(
I hope so as well... I think probably 60% of the USA still reads books
@Tim Dev not necessarily true. There's always 2020
Yup we all think u can't read now cuz of a segment on a talk show where they clearly cut anybody that read because it disturbed the feel they were going for. Sure.
Well... Not specifically from this video but...
@@bluelambo5 hey man, spread good vibes. No need for unnecessary sarcasm
1.Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoievski
2. Ulysses James Joyce.
3. Chevengur. Andrei Platonov
4. War and peace. Lev Tolstoy
5. The sound and fury. William Faulkner
6. Blood meridian. Cormac McCarthy
7. Tale of two cities. Charles Dickens
8. Germinal. Emile Zola
9. Life and fate. Vassili Grossman
10. A confederacy of dunces. John Kennedy Toole.
This looks like a list of the books you'd like people to think are your favourites. Ulysses? Come on. That wasn't even Joyce's favourite.
I actually read a lot but I'd be stumped if you asked me this randomly on the street.
I do that too. In am interview someone asked me this question and I started to get blank in my mind.
@@amnajaved6894 With so many famous novels, you can´t think on the top of your head.. War and Peace, The Great Gatsby, Catch-22 etc.?
@@samuelburleigh3550 for some odd reason no. It's like the words and names disappear.
I drew a blank when asked to name as many varieties of apples as I could.
I am certain that being on a quiz show would be a greater challenge than coming up with the answers from my couch.
That just means your mind is badly fragmented.
Let's make Orwell's *1984*
Fiction again
This is less 1984 and more Fahrenheit 451
What’s an Orwell?
Im reading 1984 at the moment!!
@@user-wv7vu3ns9v That's great. Certainly have the time.
*Everyone Stay Safe. Please.*
I thought u were talking abt captain jeon twt au 😅
Ngl it's one of masterpiece i hv ever read
Can you guys please make a compilation of all the smart people with smart answers who you leave out of the videos? Just so we can all feel a bit better...
It's upsetting to see how little people read now a days. I'm 24, I just started picking up books again around 2 to 3 years ago. People always give me obnoxious looks and passive aggressive jokes when I'm seen reading or talk about a book I read, as if I'm attempting to act prestigious or something lol. Nothing that truly hurts my feelings or upsets me, I just find it humorous how obsolete people perceive books. Nothing can compare to immersing yourself into the right book for you. There's a story out there for everybody.
Really appreciate your thoughtful comment. I actually still read a print newspaper and it’s such a novelty I actually have gotten several free cups of coffee from servers.
It's happening more than ever that good books get picked up and turned into movies and tv shows. I think reading will become cool again when people start to realize you can read the source material months or years before the tv version comes out.
Reading had really fallen out of fashion about ten to fifteen years ago. Thanks to harry potter though, a lot of people got back into reading. Now with booktok ( tiktok book community) a lot of young people are reading (Sad but atleast its promoting a good habit).
My favorite novel is youtube comments.
Awesome! Read many books a day, yes?
They'd be running to get away from me. I'd break it down by genre and then start rearranging the ranking depending on mood.
My favorite Novel is The Hobbit, read it in HS when the movie was barely being announced
Bro.....I never read any Tolkien books (because apparently his books are not available in my place) but with the help of the movies and some loyal and huge Tolkien fans, he became one of my favourite writers.
Reading is unamerican
So is thinking
Damn! I hope they don't take away my passport. Of course, having a passport is un-American too, since it means going to foreign places and having contact with other peoples and cultures.
@@LenniL-ob4ll oh man...😂😭
And we now live in a time when if you asked that question to the President, he'd answer "Ivanka's... She has the cutest belly button ever."
Ivankas novel? I don't get it
@@oneduality ah, I didn't know your belly button is called a navel. Probably would have got it if I knew that lol and lmao "if she wasn't my daughter, perhaps I'd date her" lmfao who says that 😂😂😂
Also you're from Canada, why u stating him as "the president"
SirVixIsVexed You have no evidence that they are liberals.
He's a troll. Don't feed him.
fahrenheit 451
GARY HILL That's a really good one
nice!
classic
just off the top of my head:
tom sawyer
lord of the flies
jaws
american psycho
adventures of Huckleberry Finn
catcher in the rye
brave new world
bram stoker's dracula
Mary shelly's frankenstein
the exorcist
I couldn't get halfway through that book. I don't see how people enjoy reading.
Lucas Rios ending is fire
My favourite novel is Little Women
Second favourite is A Christmas Carol
Third Favourite is Oliver Twist.
I love reading classics!!
Since people are chiming in with their favorite novels, I'll give mine: _The Decameron_ by Giovanni Boccaccio. It's a bit of an anomaly, because it consists of a hundred stories told over ten days by a _brigata_ of seven women and three men, but that frame narrative gives it just enough of an overarching structure for it to be considered a novel. If anyone is interested in checking it out, I highly recommend the Guido Waldman translation published by Oxford World's Classics. The translation is superb and the extensive endnotes are very useful for orienting oneself in Boccaccio's late medieval/early Renaissance world.
Excellent choice!!!
The Brothers Karamazov By Fyodor Dostoevsky
How aproachable is it for a normal reader? I have some respect for Dostoevsky and I fear I will have a tough time to get to his work. I read mostly fantasy, scifi and books about WW2 but I also really enjoyed classical writers like Steinbeck, Salinger, Orwell, Hemingway, Remarque and some others but I never read anything from a Russian author.
Radek Náprstek very much so. Dostoevsky is well known for being the first to write psychological thriller types of novels. Although I haven’t read “The Brothers Karamazov ”, “Crime and Punishment” was a great read and actually a bit laughable in some areas (forgive me if my humor seems a bit crass here).
Daniel B
That's a good one!!
@@radeknaprstek3886 Try Solzhenitsyn's 'One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovitch' or 'August 1914' for size.
Ouch! The book worm in me felt this like a stab in the heart! My favorite novel would have to be either Pride and Prejudice (I’ve read it 3x) or any of the seven Harry Potter books (read all of them 3x & will probably read them all for a 4th time)
I love Jane Austen and P&P is my favourite novel of hers.
Mine is jane Eyre, and the throne of glass series, and the cruel prince and all the ones you just mentioned
omg i love pride and predjudice, my favourite by jane austen would be northanger abbey :) and i love the maze runner series and any grishaverse book, especially six of crows
I would've said Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows if this was me.
Pick up a book once in a while!!!!!!
'Barnabas came to us by sea.' Both the first and last sentences in The House of The Spirits by Isabel Allende. Enchanting.
The international book club that I am a part of in Goodreads has the biggest population of readers from America.
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
I regret clicking on this video.😒
The few novels that I have read:
The adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.
The lost symbol by Dan Brown.
The name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe.
I am not an avid fictional reader but I read non-fiction a lot.
Philosophy, religion and history are my favourites.
It is very sad to see that people are not reading at all.
Oooooh! Some of those are really good (I only know a couple of them). Digital Fortress is my favourite Dan Brown book. I absolutely loved that one. Haven't read The Lost Symbol yet, but I will definitely add these to my tbr pile. I haven't finished The Richest Man In Babylon. Sometimes a book has too many lessons to get through in one sitting and needs time and attention.
@@nikkimoon1533 Read Angels and Demons by Dan Brown and A case of exploding mangoes by Muhammad Hanif. These two novels, especially the one by Hanif are amazingly written.
I have too many favorites to name, but I loved “The Book of Harlan” and “Sugar” by Bernice L. McFadden.
Once I didn't watch TV for 5 yrs and I read lots of books but even my sister doesn't believe me. I've been a book lover since I was a little kid. My fav novels are "Count of Monte Cristo," and "Pride and Prejudice." Oh, and "Dracula."
Omg! Dracula was awesome! Took a while to pick up, but when it did... Hooooo boy! 👀 I could not put it down! Have you read Mary Shelly's Frankenstein? That book is a keeper. An absolutely delightful read. ❤️
@@nikkimoon1533 I haven't, actually. I have the book. I guess now I will. Thanks. Have you read "The Alienist?" Awesome book. Historical fiction of New York.
Glad I've read books! My favorite novel is The Wizard Of Oz.
NOBODY said Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Or even some YA Hunger Games type stuff? Damn...
good book, Martian Chronicles even better, Foundation better still
Out of all the novels I've read, probably the outsiders or holes would be my favorite.
But the one novel I would highly recommend is Nineteen-eighty-four, that novel is the only one I've ever read front to back that wasn't part of a school curriculum. And as I get older, I can see why education systems don't allow classes to read that one.
Omg same I loveeee the outsiders!
“White teeth” by zadie Smith was a Nobel I read repeatedly in college.
In high school, “Beloved” confused, challenged, and surprisingly entertained. It was difficult but somehow rewarding to me as a high schooler. I hated anything Charles dickens...they made us read so much of him.
I just started reading Swing Time. It's my first book from her.
I think the book thief. I just remember it moving me to tears and it was just so well written.
My favorite will always be Catcher in the Rye. Dont know why. There's just something about that story...
Jørn Bjerregaard it' about teenage angst and is popular for some of the same reasons ""Rebel Without A Cause" is such a compelling movie ( that and James Dean's amazing performance). Coming of age stories are always going to speak to our young people from "Tom Sawyer" to "Mockingbird" ( I shortened the full titles for effect). It's what music does, also.
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Still haven't read The Catcher in the Rye but my favorite is East of Eden. I know a lot of people say The Grapes of Wrath is the better of the two novels from Steinbeck but I love East of Eden so much more. Although, I will say this every American should read The Grapes of Wrath. I can't stress enough how relevant that book is to this day and it was written in 1939.
Bruh. Harry Potter! 🙄 How come no one mentioned Harry Potter, yet whenever you ask someone who doesn't actually read what their favourite novel is, they say, "The first Harry Potter." 🤣 personally, Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon is my favourite book. That book was action, love story, and so heartbreaking it made my freaking tears cry. 🥺 Very well written.
Crime and punishment by Doestovesky
I knew that was coming. But it still hurt. Ouch.
As a high school English teacher, I have read large portions, if not whole books to my classes, because they do NOT read anything but texts on their phones.
You probably shouldn't. How are they ever going to learn if you facilitate them? Why don't you have them read a book and do a test on it that counts for their grade? Part of my high school exam grade was reading 16 books from my own language (Dutch), 12 books for English (mandatory 2nd language), 10 books for French and also 10 for German (the latter two only if you were graduating in these languages). My nephew just told me it's still part of high school exams 22 years later here in the Netherlands.
I think being read to can be a great introduction to reading.
@@JaneDoe-ci3gj, I agree, but more for kids in lower school. Kids in high school should have enough reading skills to read themselves.
I know they selected the few people that don't read to make a joke, but I would be interested in what people they found on the streets did like as their favorite novel
Tough question to pick just one-- Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry is my favorite, although I prefer reading his "short novel," The Forest Path to the Spring. RIchard Flanagan's novel, Gould's Book of Fish is right up there, too, but I think choosing just one is a bit ridiculous.
I bought _Gould's Book of Fish_ years ago for my Kindle, but it broke and I replaced it with a Kobo because the Kindle was no longer properly rendering files downloaded from Internet Archive. Since I only got my Kindle in the first place to read public domain books, this was a deal-breaker for me. But now I've lost access to all the books I bought, except by sitting at the computer and reading via their free desktop app. You're tempting me to make the effort for this book.
This is just sad. No wonder the rest of the world thinks we're stupid here in America
*Know lmao
There was a time in my life when I'd read two books per week. Some I don't even remember the names of but I know their stories. It's been two months and I have not read fiction.
I feel so sad for people who don´t read. I enjoy it as much or even more as watching a great movie or watching a riveting Netflix show.
I feel so bad for people who read too much. Their socially awkward
Not really
At least people who read know the difference between their and they're and how to use punctuation. You know, the things that come in handy when writing job application letters, work reports, RUclips comments, etc. Other than that books are great for critical thinking skills, for comprehensive reading skills and for imagination skills, since a reader needs to imagine the story in his mind rather than have it easily presented to them like with movies.
@@derekviveiros2145 you know, people who read can usually tell the difference between 'there' and 'their'.
@@cei9514 Tru story lol
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Mostly because I read it as a kid and I get all nostalgic from reading it.
One hundred years of solitude
Yeah, pretty much everything from Garcia Marquez. That guy is a genius.
O yes!
Excellent read. I was 16 when I first read that book. I still remember the colorful images it painted.
Absolutely!
Ohmg. Yes.
Jane Eyre - Emily Bronte
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Persuasion - Jane Austen
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (So overrated commercially and made theatrical to a point that it's true story is often underrated); novellas should count!)
Many Americans do enjoy non-fiction which I think is just as great!
The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit which I read when I was a child.
Yaaay!
Yeah....I'm a huge fan of Tolkien too.
Mine is The Girl on the Train!
Emily Hyland that was literally the worst book I ever read
Ola Szwarc hahaha I liked it 😂
My favorite novel is Catcher in the Rye or The Outsiders
I read 25 novels, more or less, every year. I used to read more, but internet. My favorite novel would be The Algebraist, by Iain M. Banks.
So many people do not read :(
So sad
Gabriel García Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
At least say freaking Harry Potter or something for crying out loud!...
That's what I was waiting to hear
Or twilight. I mean, just Breaking Dawn was nearly 900 pages.
Harry Potter billboard is in the background lol
As much as I hate to admit it other than school work... the only books I've ever read are Goosebump books when I was a little kid and the Harry potter series
I'd rather say nothing than Harry Potter
Favorite book: Name of the wind - Patrick Rothfuss
that's a good one
greatt onee
I’m waiting for another from him.
great book, loved the musical and romantic bits.
meh.
It's a tie: Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky and Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
Started thinking to myself I should pick up a freaking book and read once in a while .. Jesus it's sad no one really reads books anymore
So many. How does one choose? Slaughter House Five, The Man Who Fell to Earth, 1984, The Great Gatsby, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Old Man and the Sea, and on and on...
One of my favorite novels is "100 Years of Solitude" by Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Others are "The Pillars of the Earth" Ken Follet and "A world Without End" by the same author. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoi is a good read as well.
Surprised I haven’t seen a comment for this yet but, “The Great Gatsby” by Fitzgerald.
crime and punishment by Dostoevsky
Brothers Karamazov is his absolute greatest work. For me is the greatest novel of all time.
@@miguelalejandroquezadamora5764 and The Idiot
There are too many. That’s why I carry 900 books on my Kobo. Authors I love include Dumas, Sanderson, Shakespeare, Austen, Tolkien, Lewis, Bradbury, Card, and so many more. I can’t name a favorite.
Fantasy = Lord of the Rings and the Stormlight series
Classic = Pride & Prejudice, As You Like It, The Once and Future King (and anything about King Arthur) and the Count of Monte Cristo
Science Fiction: Dune and the Enders Quintet
Children: Greta the Strong, and the Hero and the Crown
YA: Skyward
If I could only read the one book for the rest of my life: The Holy Bible (KJV)
I'm in college specializing in communication and literature... I just can't believe it!! The Bible as a novel!? 😤😤 What is a novel? "A book" whaaat!?
They could have said something like The Lord of the Rings, The Chronics of Narnia or half of the Hollywood movies that exist now... even 50 Shades of Gray would be valid!!!! So frustrating!!
Na people like to be stupid... stupid is easier. People prefer to get “fed” facts and literature through television or the internet so they don’t have to do the work and think for themselves.
catch 22, gone with the wind, desert solitaire, roots, david copperfield...
Nobody asked me but here's my answer anyway : The Silence of the Lambs. And in German The Perfume.
In German: Schachnovelle by Stephan Zweig. It was simple and intricate at the same time.
My favorite German work, although a novella, is _Der Tod in Venedig_ ( _Death in Venice_ ) by Thomas Mann. It blew me away when I first read it at the age of sixteen and it has lost none of its power in the many times I've reread it since then. _Der Prozeß_ ( _The Trial_ ) and _Das Schloß_ ( _The Castle_ ) by Franz Kafka are effectively tied with Mann's work.
I'm especially obsessed with _Der Prozeß_ . Not only do I have the book in the German original and several English translations, but I also have two film versions of it (the one Orson Welles directed with Anthony Perkins in the lead role and the one scripted by Harold Pinter with Kyle MacLachlan in the lead role), a script of a theatrical adaptation by Jean-Louis Barrault and André Gide, an operatic adaptation by Gottfried von Einem, and I've traveled to Munich for the express purpose of seeing it performed at the Münchner Kammerspiele.
The perfume is so simple and mind boggling
@@intimi28 Zweig is a wonderful author who only wrote one full-length novel but tons of novellas and short stories. I think you must be the only person online or in real life I've ever come across who's even aware of his work, outside of the lit blogs.
@@AlanHope2013, I must admit I had to read it for my high school exam for German literature and I purposefully picked thin books for German (I also had to read 16 books for my native Dutch, 12 for English and 10 for French). I was pleasantly surprised by Schachnovelle and have reread it a couple of times in the 22 years since high school.
Shout out to the guy that said Pet Sematary ! lol that's my favorite!
“On the Road”
Kerouac/Beat Generation >
Daulton Bruner YES!!! I LOVE that book, have read It countless times 👍🏽
Exactly the same as mine. Thanks Daulton Bruner, I was holding a very little possibility scrolling down to see if anyone mentioned this great book.
I don't know what saddens me more, that such fellow Americans exist or that television chooses to showcase them as a representation of us 😔
Ouch, well people, you really don't know what you are missing.. Literally. It does explain a lot though. You will learn a lot more about the world reading a novel that you will anything on facebook. If you find the thickness of the book intimidating, give audio books a try.
They should of followed up with, do you ever watch PBS... The answers would have been the same.
Should’ve asked outside of bookstores!
Guillermo should come to Mexico and make this question, literally...
People, sadly, thinks Novel (novela in Spanish) means telenovela(soap opera)
I love when i hear people or they ask me and the answers are not in the same direction
Hahahaha
Tale of Two Cities (if it counts as a novel), The Brothers Karamazov and The Famished Road by Ben Okri, Silas Marner by George Eliot is up there in my Tops.
Middlemarch is her masterpiece, and possibly the best English novel ever. I recommend it heartily. And of course ToTC is a novel, although many if not most of Dickens' works were originally published as serials in magazine, one chapter at a time. How infuriating would that be?
Alan Hope I'm gonna have audible middle march... I have a Adam Bebe on the shelf been meaning to
Read- but it's intimidating.
@@mmb628jr2 I have a thing against audio books, especially literary novels. Two things: the voices in my head cannot be replaced with one voice covering all. That's like ordering the seafood platter and it comes out all clams. Second: it doesn't offer the chance to go back and read that paragraph again, whether you didn't quite grasp the thought behind it, or you just want to savour the writing, eat it all up and lick the plate.
I'm sure it is intimidating, but that's a good thing. I haven't tackled Adam Bede, myself. So I have no opinion I'm afraid.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Mine too
Fantastic book, I think that might be my favorite, too.
I searched for it at so many book store but it's always sold out. So I searched at books even and guess what? It's already out of stock, I wonder if I ever going to get a chance to read it 😔
I think part of the reason the divorce rate is so high is because people get bored with each other after a short time, and then it goes downhill from there.
My ex never read. None of her family read any books. I am very literate. I tried to get them interested. Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe mysteries are a great start. But they all ignored me.
Eventually, we got divorced. And now my heart is forever broken.
If I could do it over, I would make sure my spouse is a reader. Very few people are.
So sad. Even G.W. Bush had a favourite novel. OK, it was a children's book and he was 23 when "The very hungry Caterpillar" was published but at least it was a book he knew and could name.
It is ashaming that there are people who never read a novel in their live.
Don't forget: he also read _The Stranger_ by Albert Camus. I remember a lot of people having fun with the implausibility of that when Bush's summer reading list was released. I guessed that Bush just felt a certain kinship toward a man who killed an Arab for no reason.
Is it just me who can't think of a single book I've read? Not without opening my kindle and seeing the books I've read.
Luca It’s easy to draw a blank!
East of Eden
I am the only one in my group of friends who reads! Wuthering Heights is my favorite, then Game of Thrones, waiting for next book to come out. It is a shame more don't have the pleasure you can get from reading novels. I couldn't imagine life without reading books.
congrats -_-
Stephan king 'it '
My all-time favorite book is "The Walking Drum" by Louis L'Amour.
Sometimes I'm not at all bothered to be getting older and closer to the sweet release of death. As we get closer and closer to a full blown real life Idiocracy at least I'll only suffer through the first stages of it.
This explains so much about America...
The Stand by Stephen King is a great American novel. Shady government conspiracies, global apocalyptic pandemic, dystopian landscape, incredible characters and some old fashioned good vs. evil. Love it! Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett is another fave, fascinating dive into all aspects of medieval life in England, and so well written, couldn't put either of these down.
I just finished Pillars of the Earth, and read The Stand about a year ago. Both of them were among the best books I've read.
XD. I never stop reading. There’s a huge reading community out there. I bet they made a compilation of the people who don’t read, not the ones who do.
Imagine admitting that you don’t read and laughing. How embarrassing and depressing.
My favorite is A ClockWork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Bram Stoker ' s Dracula
100 years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This was a waste of time. I buy 2 novels every month. I read a lot, from Sarah Dessen's great works to Jenny Colgan and her creative and fun cafe novels. Let me never ever forget Mitch Albom and Tuesdays with Morrie because it makes me cry!!!
This video wrecked my heart 💔