Posted on 11/30/2022 2:46:18 AM PST by C19fan
Although I have read all of his famous works.
James and the Giant Peach
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Fantastic Mr Fox
Danny, the Champion of the World
George’s Marvellous Medicine
The BFG
The Witches
Matilda
I read A LOT of books (the old fashioned way), and Dickens is far and away my favorite.
Certainly the greatest of modern times.
I remember seeing her DOMINATE the best seller list.
What was it, Book 5 came out, and ALL her works were 1,3,3,4,5 on the Best Seller list.
At one book every two years, that means a ten year old book was STILL dominating current releases
In two hundred years no one will know who JK Rowling’s is - but they’ll still be reading Shakespear...
If Shakespeare is fourth, who is third?!
Interesting man. RAF officer and later did liaison work in DC during the war. Married actress Patricia Neal. Wrote many children's stories which have also been adapted into animated and live action films.
He's a jingo imperialist doncha know? Therefore he's been canceled.
Shakespeare?
Conspiracy theorist and purveyor of fake news, unless you actually believe in a trio of witches.
What, no Ian Fleming?
Who at Amazon, voted? The board of directors? Is the word “voted” being morphed into something else? The article doesn’t say anything about how this outcome originated, other than “voted” and “Amazon”. If this is the result of book sales on Amazon, there are many easier and more informative ways of getting that point across. So far, all we know is that a decision at Amazon was made, and these are the results.
Jane Austen would top my list also. I have never much cared for Shakesphere, hard to read honestly.
I love that adage: keeping them engaged. Yup. Forget about learning beyond a Nono second of concentration and analysis.
Yes, I should know better. Now I need to confess my Kipling sins on Twitter and beg for forgiveness....
And no mention of Enid Blyton ??? Oh that’s right. She wrote ‘racist’ books for children.
Jane Austin’s zombie book definitely has its place.
As a published fiction author myself, JK Rowling absolutely belongs among the top of the listers.
I am in awe of writers like her, Herbert, Asimov, and Tolkien. They create raw worlds, cultures, and universes from nothing. I can’t do that. My writing has to be grounded in a reality. Writing like they do requires a higher level chess mind, able to keep track not only of what you created, but also to extend that fantasy into a longer term reality.
In the world of literature, these people are giants of mind…
No love for Chaucer? I guess technically he wasn’t British. But, then neither was Shakespeare.
Dahl also co-wrote screenplays for film, including James Bond You Only Live Twice (1967) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
No Byron, Keats, Shelley, Coleridge, or Wordsworth? Or Dickens?
Preposterous. Sheer philistinism.
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