The HN guidelines ask you not to be gratuitously negative in comments. This is so gratuitously negative that it could be  a parody.<p>If you&#x27;d like to list <i>your</i> favorite books, you should do so (somewhere else, though, since it would be off-topic here). But scorning someone else for not sharing your taste violates the spirit of this site, not to mention was guaranteed to lead the thread further into off-topic bickering.