Not nearly as exciting as other insomnia posts, as I think I might actually go to sleep soon. Though am feeling neurotic enough that I'm thinking about going and counting all my other insomnia posts and numbering each in the title, then editing this so the number is correct.

Yeah.

So, this is kind of cool. You can vote for your top ten "Best Novels" here. Your lists gets sorted into a database and after a certain interval, will go towards generating a list of the "Top Ten Best Novels" chosen by the people, for the people, or what the ef ever.

I did find the experience harrowing and nail-biting as one place said top ten "favorite", but everywhere else said "best". To me these are vastly different! "Favorite" to me means impact it had on me, how much enjoyment I get from reading it, how much I think about it, how it made me feel. "Best" to me means quality of writing, quality and possible positive impact of ideas, and the actual realistic positive social impact. Jane Eyre is one of my favorite novels. It isn't imo one of the best.

(Then of course there's the connotation in such a list of "most classic" or "most well known". Gone With The Wind is a classic, but neither my favorite nor best. Hmm.)

I've read 45, which might not really be a figure to be proud of. Since The DaVinci Code made the list.

( The List of People's Top 100 Novels. Of course, being me, I had to cross of which ones I've read and include commentary. But it's limited! Anyway, bonus, you can meme it. )