does anybody know any all time books rating sites where u can find books from different years (not only 2004 like here) ? Something like imdb.com for movies or rateyourmusic.com for music and of course metacritic for both music and films. thanx in advance. would be great help if u'll answer this

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Originally posted by axiology:
does anybody know any all time books rating sites where u can find books from different years (not only 2004 like here) ? Something like imdb.com for movies or rateyourmusic.com for music and of course metacritic for both music and films. thanx in advance. would be great help if u'll answer this

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To my knowledge, there aren't many sites like ours out there that do what we do. There is another site called "Complete Review" which culls links to book reviews, but they don't quote those reviews, and they only score about half of them. To my knowledge, they don't compute an overall score, either. But I do like what they're up to.

10x for the tip !
in fact i was hoping to find somewhere rating 4 essential all time fiction books like Crime & punishment, 1984, Notre Dame De Paris, Jane eyre, Catcher in the rye, 100 yers of solitude, etc etc ...something like that.

if someone finds that sort of books rated pls notify

until then it remains the hope that the valuable metacritic crew will find a way to bring those works rated here

Unlikely, Ax,

For the same reasons that we don't do pages for "Gone with the Wind" in the film section or "Combat" (Atari) in the games section... It's too tough to find original and accessible reviews. But sure, it would be something interesting that we'd all like to see!

10x again MGE ... now it's true reviews from specialized critics are hard 2 find for older books but just thought there's gotta be somewhere on the Net some average reader's ratings. IMHO some people (like me) after reading a book, watchin a movie or listening to an album are saying: "that's a masterpiece - it deserves a 10 !" or "whatta crap - it gets a 4!" . On metacritic also, beside critics, users themselves are giving reviews or simple ratings. with admin's permission i'll try to do something like that here. I'll nominate a few books and ask those who read at least one of them to give a rating to it from 1 to 10 like in the other sections of this site . who would like to make more nominations is wellcome. perhaps if the admin agrees the idea we could have a books top based on the average score granted by the users.

my first picks:

Crime And Punishment (1866) by F. Dostoievsky - 10 / 10

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell - 10 / 10

Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Bronte - 9 / 10

The Magic Mountain (1924) by Thomas Mann - 7 / 10

Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov - 7 / 10


pls send your personal score to these books and nominate your owns (only the books u believe are really that good to make it thru the history of literature).

Ax-I agree with you on C and P and 1984, those are both solid 10s. I can't go along with only giving Lolita a 7 though. That deserves at least a 9, and to me is way better than Jane Eyre.

10x keyli ... i guess a basic top 5 wiil look like thet after keyli's vote


1.Crime And Punishment (1866) by F. Dostoievsky - 10 by 2 votes
2.Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell - 10 by 2 votes
3.Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Bronte - 9 by 1 vote (pls give a score keyli)
4.Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov - 8 by 2 votes
5.The Magic Mountain (1924) by Thomas Mann - 7 by 1 vote

pls nominate other books

Clifton Fadiman wrote a book called Lifetime Reading Plan. It describes 100 or so of the most significant books ever written, fiction and non-fiction, going back to the Greek classics.

Of course, Fadiman's book is based on one person's judgment. I'd like to see a survey of ratings by dozens of people who have read many of the classics.

I'm an illiterate, but I will proffer one you mentioned upfront: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I'd give that a 10. I rarely give anything a 10. Sorry I can't help out with the others yet. Illiteracy has its limitations.

I would give the Count of Monte Cristo a 10 -- great freakin' story, and Wordsworth's The Prelude a 4 -- that was some boring reading.

Although I've already pushed some of these other places on this board, here are a few of my favorites with grades.

The Public Burning 10/10
The Glass Bead Game 10/10
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World 9/10
Stone Junction 9/10 (A book that was good enough for Thomas Pynchon to come out of his cave long enough to write an introduction.)

And because I have to represent the family heritage, some Icelandic Lit.

Independent People 9/10 (dark, dark stuff. It starts with a witch cursing the country with eternally bad agriculture, which, if you have ever had the oportunity to travel to Iceland you know, seems to have stuck.

Also try the Icelandic Sagas. Classic world lit. I won't give a grade because they range in quality from about 6-9.5. Try 'The Saga of the People of Laxardal' for starters.

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Originally posted by Darrell N:
I'd like to see a survey of ratings by dozens of people who have read many of the classics.

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here are the most important lists on the Net IMO:

http://www.harvard.com/onourshelves/top100.html
http://listsofbests.com/list/5/
http://listsofbests.com/list/73/
http://listsofbests.com/list/45/

enjoy

Reading lists
Even though I love to read, I’ve kept away from fabricating a reading list for myself. However, I had to gawk at the reading lists provided by a high school curriculum for teaching humanities, called Gilekirk, available online: http://www.gileskirk.com/. Each of the four years spans a certain period of time, and I love the reading lists that correspond to each. Go to this website and pick a year. There will be a link on the right for reading lists. It makes any book worm drool.