THE MOST-LIKED AND MOST-DISLIKED CLASSIC BOOKS
A website called GoodReads rates books. Somebody has searched the site and discovered the ten most-liked and ten most-disliked classic novels:
Most-Liked Classics:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. East of Eden
3. Gone With the Wind
4. Pride and Prejudice
5. The Godfather (* Did anybody else pass that book around in high school so everyone could read Sonny’s sex scene?)
6. And Then There Were None
7. The Count of Monte Cristo (* Love his sandwiches, hate his artwork.)
8. The Brothers Karamazov9. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
10. 1984
* It’s not a Top Ten Favorite Novel list without “Green Eggs and Ham.”
Most Disliked Classics:
1. The Scarlett Letter
2. Heart of Darkness
3. Moby-Dick
4. The Pearl
5. Gulliver’s Travels
6. On the Road
7. A Separate Peace
8. Things Fall Apart
9. Atlas Shrugged
10. Madame Bovary
* Just reading this list has me nodding off.
