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Rankings of the greatest pieces of literature 2016-09-03 13:30:57 Post No. 8468208
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Rankings of the greatest pieces of literature
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2016-09-03 13:30:57
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Hello!
My 1st post on /lit/. I have one specific question.
One of my interests are films. There exists such a phenomenon when occasionally certain film professionals like critics, directors, cinematographers, screenwriters, are asked to name what they consider to be the greatest most influential and historically important films ever made. Their lists are then combined together, and each mention of a film receives 1 vote. After that it is possible to make sort of ranking of greatest films. Examples of it are Sight & Sound poll, TSPDT 1000 greatest films. The difference between these polls and common online rankings like IMDb 250 is that in former only professionals can participate, while in latter any website user can. Thus professional polls ensuring elaborative results.
My question is, does similar rankings exist for literature?
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The Bible
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>>8468208
Mi diario, para ser honesto, familia.
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no, there are only the things that Bloom thinks are worthwhile
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>>8468208
What are you favorite films?
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Well as I thought. Literature is much more ancient, and polls like these with votes for Bible and Quran would have been ridiculous. I thought maybe I find some sort of list of suggestions to get into classic literature like Shakespeare etc. Same happened to me with films and I enjoyed it.
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Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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>>8468309
>Shakespeare
>classical
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>>8468298
2001: A Space Odyssey, The Godfather Part I-II, maybe some Chaplin, maybe some Hitchcock, maybe some Welles, Lawrence of Arabia too.
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>>8468320
Which Chaplin and Hitchcock films?
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>>8468317
I have literally zero experience with literature. But I thought 16th century is classical.
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>>8468309
What you want is to just look up "top 100 classic books!" lists and similar things. You'll get a lot there
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>>8468328
City Lights, The Gold Rush, Vertigo, Psycho, North by Northwest.
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>>8468333
Well that's what I would do anyway. I just thought maybe there exists an actual poll by professionals, so I asked.
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>>8468331
Classical is ancient Greek/Roman.
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