What you should read...

[fajrdrako]

30 Day Book Meme: – Day 8: A book everyone should read at least once

I don't believe such a thing exists or should exist. I shudder at the thought. It's too much a group mind thing, or thought control. Everyone should read their own set of books - and they should recommend what they love, but not because anyone else should read it, but because others might enjoy it.

I'm even suspicious of books "everybody" reads, just on principle. But often read them out of curiosity. Sometimes I love them (The Lord of the Rings), sometimes I hate them (Ivanhoe), sometimes I laugh at them The Da Vinci Code), sometimes I'm indifferent (Harry Potter). But that's curiosity, not a sense that I should read anything. There's enough - more than enough - in this world that I simply want to read.

Everyone should read what they want to, and not accept anyone else's reading choices.