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.
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
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.
@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.
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.
@@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 😂😂😂
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...
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)
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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 read books quite often but I’m not judging these people... some don’t have the time or are just simply not interested in reading. What’s so bad about that?
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.
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.
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.
Well, years back I had an English professor who had us all introduce ourselves by saying our favorite book, so I've used the one I picked then, Giovanni Boccaccio's _Decameron_ , as my go-to answer whenever I'm asked this question. It is the one I've probably reread the most, so it's still a legitimate choice. I'm reading it right now and enjoying it as much as I ever did. However, I do prefer Goodreads' approach, where you can pick any number of books as your "favorite" merely by ticking a box and the first eleven in your favorites shelf will be displayed on your profile (unless you change your profile to display some other shelf). Out of the top eleven on mine, six are novels ( _The Decameron_ by Giovanni Boccaccio, of course, _The Name of the Rose_ by Umberto Eco, _The House of Mirth_ by Edith Wharton, _The Trial_ by Franz Kafka, _The Death of the Gods_ by Dmitri Merezhkovsky, and _Erasure_ by Percival Everett), three are nonfiction ( _History of the Peloponnesian War_ by Thucydides, _The Book of Margery Kempe_ and _Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist_ by Alexander Berkman), one is a short story collection ( _Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings_ by Jorge Luis Borges), and one is an epic poem ( _The Metamorphoses_ by Ovid). And even then I can name tons of other favorites that didn't make those top 11 spaces.
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“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.
@@shristi0000 Noah, in Darren Aronofsky's film. However, films about Jesus are thick on the ground. One of the earliest feature-length silent films from 1903 is the French _Vie et Passion du Christ_ ( _Life and Passion of the Christ_ ). Pier Luigi Pasolini did a famous film adaptation with an amateur cast called _Il vangelo secondo Matteo_ ( _The Gospel According to St. Matthew_ ), and Max von Sydow played Jesus in the studio epic _The Greatest Story Ever Told_ . There's also Martin Scorsese's _The Last Temptation of Christ_ , which I quite enjoy, but it's based on the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis (who also wrote _Zorba the Greek_ ) rather than the Biblical text. Mel Gibson's religious snuff film, _The Passion of the Christ_ , is probably best passed over in silence. Pretty much any reasonably interesting bit of narrative in both the Old and New Testaments has been turned into a movie at some time or another.
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.
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.
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.
BernieYohan John Irving is brilliant! It’s been years since I’ve read those books, but I was thinking about him just the other day. Garp is a modern classic, and Owen Meany- !! I fell APART!!!
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.
I think the accelerated reader program in elementary/middle school killed reading books for pleasure for me. Reading books was to take tests to earn a certain amount of points. If you didn't read fast enough to earn a certain amount of points in a given month, you were labeled an "at risk reader."
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.
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.
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.
1:13 That guy makes a guess, what what a good guess it was! If he wants to pick up his first book ever, than that one will be the first of many. If Pet Sematary is your first book, you'll probably never stop reading King books. (And many of them are much, much thinker than that one... But by then that won't scare you anymore.)
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I feel like the question should’ve been “can you read?”
Hahahaha
*enter Tywin Lannister*
Lol!
Yes!
😂😂
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.
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
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
I weep for humanity.
"Name a novel" "the Bible" -an answer so dumb it was unintentionally smart.
I honestly thought that someone was going to say HARRY FREAKING POTTER!!!
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.
As a bookworm this video sincerely took years off my life lmao
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.
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
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.
Robinson Crusoe. I remember day dreaming about it during class and running home after school to pick it up.
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. 😆
My favorite novel is youtube comments.
Awesome! Read many books a day, yes?
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.
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...
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
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.
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.
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
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).
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.
@@GeeDeeDee oh man...😂😭
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
The international book club that I am a part of in Goodreads has the biggest population of readers from America.
Crime and punishment by Doestovesky
My favourite novel is Little Women
Second favourite is A Christmas Carol
Third Favourite is Oliver Twist.
I love reading classics!!
I regret clicking on this video.😒
Gabriel García Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
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!!!
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
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.
I think the book thief. I just remember it moving me to tears and it was just so well written.
I knew that was coming. But it still hurt. Ouch.
'Barnabas came to us by sea.' Both the first and last sentences in The House of The Spirits by Isabel Allende. Enchanting.
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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.
Pick up a book once in a while!!!!!!
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.
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.
In Europe we spend all of high school years by reading novels
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.
0:34 - Is the German bookshelf in the intro a coincidence? Or is it meant as a joke (as in: no American owns enough books to fill a shelf)?
Glad I've read books! My favorite novel is The Wizard Of Oz.
I read books quite often but I’m not judging these people... some don’t have the time or are just simply not interested in reading. What’s so bad about that?
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!
Half of a yellow sun - Chimamanda Ngozi
I have too many favorites to name, but I loved “The Book of Harlan” and “Sugar” by Bernice L. McFadden.
This explains so much about America...
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
This video wrecked my heart 💔
So many people do not read :(
So sad
I'm a literature student in my master's degree, my room is filled with books, but if I would get asked, I'd be like "No-vel?"
This is just sad. No wonder the rest of the world thinks we're stupid here in America
*Know lmao
Shout out to the guy that said Pet Sematary ! lol that's my favorite!
My favorite novel is Catcher in the Rye or The Outsiders
Should’ve asked outside of bookstores!
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.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Mostly because I read it as a kid and I get all nostalgic from reading it.
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 saw the movie. I saw the book 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 😂
Call me Ishmael... A joke for the last dude. Hollah if you're so nerdy your first thought was "how could I pick only one?!" 😂
Well, years back I had an English professor who had us all introduce ourselves by saying our favorite book, so I've used the one I picked then, Giovanni Boccaccio's _Decameron_ , as my go-to answer whenever I'm asked this question. It is the one I've probably reread the most, so it's still a legitimate choice. I'm reading it right now and enjoying it as much as I ever did.
However, I do prefer Goodreads' approach, where you can pick any number of books as your "favorite" merely by ticking a box and the first eleven in your favorites shelf will be displayed on your profile (unless you change your profile to display some other shelf). Out of the top eleven on mine, six are novels ( _The Decameron_ by Giovanni Boccaccio, of course, _The Name of the Rose_ by Umberto Eco, _The House of Mirth_ by Edith Wharton, _The Trial_ by Franz Kafka, _The Death of the Gods_ by Dmitri Merezhkovsky, and _Erasure_ by Percival Everett), three are nonfiction ( _History of the Peloponnesian War_ by Thucydides, _The Book of Margery Kempe_ and _Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist_ by Alexander Berkman), one is a short story collection ( _Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings_ by Jorge Luis Borges), and one is an epic poem ( _The Metamorphoses_ by Ovid). And even then I can name tons of other favorites that didn't make those top 11 spaces.
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“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.
Interviewer: What's a novel?
Woman: A book.
Interviewer: So...name a novel?
Woman: Umm...the BIBLE?
Killed me
Imagine admitting that you don’t read and laughing. How embarrassing and depressing.
Somebody should turn the best selling novel, the Bible, into a movie. 😂😂😂
I think they already did and Russell Crowe starred in it.
@@Nullifidian he played jesus?
@@shristi0000 Noah, in Darren Aronofsky's film.
However, films about Jesus are thick on the ground. One of the earliest feature-length silent films from 1903 is the French _Vie et Passion du Christ_ ( _Life and Passion of the Christ_ ). Pier Luigi Pasolini did a famous film adaptation with an amateur cast called _Il vangelo secondo Matteo_ ( _The Gospel According to St. Matthew_ ), and Max von Sydow played Jesus in the studio epic _The Greatest Story Ever Told_ . There's also Martin Scorsese's _The Last Temptation of Christ_ , which I quite enjoy, but it's based on the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis (who also wrote _Zorba the Greek_ ) rather than the Biblical text. Mel Gibson's religious snuff film, _The Passion of the Christ_ , is probably best passed over in silence. Pretty much any reasonably interesting bit of narrative in both the Old and New Testaments has been turned into a movie at some time or another.
@@Nullifidian Noah was so bad I was hoping there would be no room for Noah on the ark once all the animals had boarded.
I recommend "Wholly Moses" or "Monty Python's Life of Brian."
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.
1:31 Umpire yells, "SAFE!"
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
“Name ten books.”
They still fail when the challenge is name one.
2 mins silence for those...
Who thought theyd find their favorite novel here... Ps. Me too😀
It's a tie: Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky and Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
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.
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.
crime and punishment by Dostoevsky
Brothers Karamazov is his absolute greatest work. For me is the greatest novel of all time.
@@Fuerzaproletaria and The Idiot
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.
East of Eden
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!
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Solid choice. I like The World According to Garp better.
BernieYohan John Irving is brilliant! It’s been years since I’ve read those books, but I was thinking about him just the other day. Garp is a modern classic, and Owen Meany- !! I fell APART!!!
Wendy Muller Amazing book!
Pet Cemetery definitely ain’t that thick, it’s one of the thinnest King books.
Bram Stoker ' s Dracula
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.
“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.
It must have taken several takes to find all these geniuses...
I mean really!
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.
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 😔
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.
I think the accelerated reader program in elementary/middle school killed reading books for pleasure for me. Reading books was to take tests to earn a certain amount of points. If you didn't read fast enough to earn a certain amount of points in a given month, you were labeled an "at risk reader."
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.
interviewer: what is your favourite novel
them: what is a novel
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
Strictly speaking a novelisation of a radio series. But more people have probably read the book(s) than heard the series.
The Catcher in the Rye
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.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavelier and Clay for me probably
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.
1:13 That guy makes a guess, what what a good guess it was! If he wants to pick up his first book ever, than that one will be the first of many. If Pet Sematary is your first book, you'll probably never stop reading King books. (And many of them are much, much thinker than that one... But by then that won't scare you anymore.)