every love story in literature, tier-ranked
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- Опубліковано 13 лют 2023
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jane austen and colleen hoover in the same tier is the greatest crime against literature
See it that way: The best Colleen Hover is the same as the weakest Jane Austen in his opinion.
And I bet, if he had 6 tiers, Pride and prejudice would be above Colleen Hover.
@@KiraFriede still unacceptable lol
@@KiraFriede jane austen would use colleen's books as toilet paper
They’re not even in the same vain of writing for me. One reads like a 15 year trying out fanfic for the first time and the other is utterly iconic.
I did not just see a Colleen Hoover book put on the same tier as Pride and Prejudice.
oh wow
It’s a scandal
Same man, same...
NO
I don‘t understand the hate toward Collen Hover books. Can someone explain it?
using love island quotes as tiers is the best choice. icon behavior.
@@gabooshi omg hi dream toujours
jacks long term feud with the spanish love deception will never not be funny i'm howling
I’m going to still be cussing out that book on my death bed
literally yelled at someone at the bookstore and told them not to buy it cause Jack said no no
@@ketkeepande4804 it’s a public service at this point
I love that omg hated that book
this isn’t related to the video, but the like button of this comment is our petition to get jack to read wattpad again
I’m going to film another episode of wattpad fanfiction reactions on Friday!
@@jack_edwards omg pleaseeeee check out ao3 instead of wattpad. So much better and some genuinely amazing writing. Really interesting seeing what people write when there is no monetary incentive. Anyway love the vid for the single nerds on valentines day 😁 ❤
pls read chapter 6 of unbelievers
This time, read the great ones instead
I was actually coming on hopeful he might have given us it as a treat today tbh lol
i think most of the flack colleen hoover gets is due to the romanticizing of abuse and all her very bizarre writing choices, like literally writing “we both laughed at our sons big balls” which was about a literal baby. Also the fact that she blocked and ignored girls who were calling out her son for SAing them…
Also the fact she pretty much waged war with some teenage YT who gave her books a negative review
exactly!!!
And for trying to romanticize step sibling incest
@@minkstar9021 are you talking about Caleb Joseph?
Finally, someone said it!
I had to do a double take when you said and quote “Pride and Prejudice is fine.” My brother in Christ we need to talk.
We all know he much prefers Emma
I think credibility is lost once pride and prejudice and night circus are put in the same tier as CoHo -.-
Emma is much better
@@Stefanseyes I LOVE YOU SO MUCH FOR SAYING THIS
Wait… is he a Christian?
I'm sorry? No Jane Eyre Laid Bare? ✋🏻 How accurate is this list, Jack? 🤔
Lmao
came to comment the exact same thing
I love how this book has become a running joke in Jack's community 🤣
definitely in tier all my eggs in one basket no question !!
Lmaoooo 💀💀💀
Bestie the reason people give Colleen Hoover so much hate at this point is because aside from the kind of cringe writing she’s known to be kind of an awful person too. Her son was accused of SA and Colleen blocked the girl in question (Allegedly, don’t sue me CoHo)
bro feck, thats a rumour , colleen hoover said abt the whole case in public, what actually happened was that her son asked some girl in snap to send him a pic ( you know what ), they never actually met and no SA happened, CoHo actually went to the girl and apologised for his message in person and she said she regrets abt his son's behaviur ...
Just dont believe what rumours say...
Also the coloring book she proposed for It Ends With Us. Which is not only highly innapropriate but that also leads her to make more of a profit on what she romantisises throughout her books.
@@cloudriilejion4589 have you read the book? Bc she doesn’t romanticize it 😂 like it’s a meh book but it’s clear she’s saying abuse is bad in it
@SlowlyBex I agree, I honestly don't get why people say the book romanticises abuse. Yes, the main characters is having trouble leaving her abusive partner and yes, in the beginning, she tries to excuse the behaviour. But that's the reality of domestic abuse for many people. It's not easy to leave a situation like that.
@@redwineandagingerale Did you people just ignore the part about the coloring book?
jacks fascination and consistency with this smurf collection is hilarious
devastated you didn’t rank the og toxic love story: wuthering heights
THIS
Shouldnt lolita be here too? Idk i never read it but i thought it was a (toxic) love story
@@jaklin225 Lolita was about grooming and abuse, its not a love story. Vladimir Nabakov never meant for it to be one either. Calling it romance is wrong on so many levels...
@@lilicake4208 ohh okay, thanks for letting me know. I never read it, just heard little snippets on the internet thats its a good read :) sorry if i offended somehow
@@jaklin225 Oh no its fine. Its just that there is a lot of misinformation about Lolita on the Internet, and pedophiles use it to defend themselves by using the book as an excuse as well.
Jack, Colleen Hoover and Jane Austen on the same tier is a crime!
JACK I remember I finished The Song of Achilles while playing one of your “read with me” videos and it was so awkward because you were calmly enjoying your book and I was SOBBING for 30 minutes straight!!! Even if you go in knowing the outcome, the way she has written it is gut punching.
I find it so weird that people actually cried with SOA because I read it and gave it a 3 star review. The writing was pretty but imo, it was lacking depth and emotion. But I ended up reading Circe right after and it is my all time favourite book ever, and I saw jack review it and he only gave it 4 stars 😂
@@sin3358 THANK U! Felt the same way about Song of Achilles
soa is my favourite book, its the book that got me back into reading, its the book i based my “myths” research paper on, its the book i gifted my best friend as a present bcs i love it that much. Its not everyone’s cup of tea but once you get inside this little world it creates and get attached to it you can never go back. For me it feels like a time travel to ancient greece and makes me realise how many things can change in thousands of years but love can be felt the same. I just love it
@@sin3358 that’s totally fair, I also was in a really bad place while reading it so that could play a part 😅😅 but I totally get not loving a book so many people rave about *cough*me&normalpeople*cough*
@@KeaLynn aww I hope ur ok now hon
i’m convinced this man has read every single book ever and it’s mental where do you find the time for this😅
it's his job :D
@@zulmie5777 no he's got a normal full-time job too!
@@alaynajordan8459 He doesn't, at least not a full time one
I beg someone to please make a compilation of all the times Jack comes for the Spanish Love Deception and the Love Hypothesis 😂 it’s all I need to get me through a tough day
Hoover’s work, “women are illustrated as passive objects, only able to derive agency when their male counterpart chooses them,” and her stories feature “romanticization of toxic masculinity, unhealthy codependent relationships and abusive, controlling behavior.”
there’s a difference between love stories and romance books and most of these are just romance 😅 and that colleen hoover book next to pride and prejudice, jack????? i cannot believe my eyes
there’s definitely a difference - I’d consider 23 out of 42 of these books romance books, meanwhile the others feature love stories
I love that this isn't just about the typical romance books but books about love - real, heart-tearing love. I've read most of the queer books on your list (all recommended by you, btw, so forever grateful) and oh. my. god. the tears that I've cried. I feel like so much life has been added to my days thanks to them - and to you! So thank you!
love that the video title isn't "every love story i've read, tier-ranked" -- it's "every love story in literature." If jack hasn't read it, it doesn't exist. 💃
yeah I thought it was going to be about ranking love story tropes in general lol
i went from reading 2 books in 2020 to reading more than 60 last year just bc of your content. you have such incredible recommendations and brilliant descriptions of books that we cannot help but stan
“Someone wins and oscar and tells someone else not to chip their tooth” NO BECAUSE YOU’RE GONNA MAKE ME CRY RIGHT HERE
Do u know the page no. or when it happens? 😭 It's been a while since I read it and can't remember
@@niki_27 I have it annotated but I don’t have my copy with me… it happens towards the second third of the book, though!
I feel like the brilliance of Normal People is how terrifyingly realistic it was. It broke me for days.
Love that you did this! But wow petition for Jack to reread pride and prejudice until he moves it up a tier
yes
I'd love to watch jack read Mafia romances and be disgusted in almost every sentence lmao
Jack’s dissatisfaction with Spanish Love Deception is my favourite trope on his channel right now. I’m always amazed on the new metaphors he comes up with to describe how much he despises the book. The tension is palpable and I’m here for all of it 😂
Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase will forever be the blueprint for me. The fact I’m in my 20s and they are still the standard is a testament to them being the best love story of all time for me.
I LOVED daisy jones and the six!! Such a beautiful way of writing and describing an “imposible love”
I want to read Daisy Jones and the Six so bad!! I put the book on hold at my library but there are 26 people ahead of me 😕
I read Open Water a few weeks ago because of your recommendation and honestly didn't really expect to like it - but I just cried through most of it? And in the best way possible? It's so heartachingly vulnerable, thank you so much for recommending it.
I’m always so happy when I find someone else that loves Emma. It seems like so many people don’t get how great it is.
It's the best!
Jack hating the Spanish love deception in every video is the most consistent thing in my life 🤣
A la hora de rankear "the Spanish love decepcion", y decir la comparación de la sopa, imaginé la tensión de ver tu plato, luciendo absolutamente delicioso, y tener que esperar a que traigan la comida de tus acompañantes… I felt that, man, I really did.
I just finished Alone With You in the Ether yesterday and enjoyed it so much. Olivie Blake is brilliant. I first encountered her work on AO3 and it’s so good to see she continues to produce beautiful work.
I loved this is how you lose the time war. Such a beautiful written story. I loved how tender the letters are and how they call each other by things that are red or blue like "my blue-berry" "my sunset"
last year was probably the worst year of my life and im slowly finding my way to function in life again. I started reading a little extra hard to cope and dude your channel. your channel is so comforting to watch because 1. I get to find out about books and 2. your reviews and jokes are suuuuper comforting and remind me that there is still some good worth sticking around for, you know?
I hope you never stop making these :)
yup. jack has special magic: lifting spirits is his super power
i really hope you continue in your uptick in mood. reading can really be a bridge
I read The song of Achilles yesterday and it is my absolute favourite book of all time. It is beautifully written and I literally cried for over 10 minutes. It deserved its own tier
Hey, I just came to say that if you enjoyed SOA, then I HIGHLY recommend you Madeline millers other book, "Circe". While SOA is about queer love and breaking stereotypes about men being unemotional, Circe is about the journey of a woman finding herself and it is so beautiful, heartbreaking, emotional. If anything, Miller wrote this book even better. Please give it a try since it's the same author :)
@@sin3358 Thanks, I'm gonna read that soon
I 👏 LIVE 👏 FOR 👏 THIS 👏 CONTENT. The shade. SHADE. Rake them over the coals. Tell me all about these flops. I am LIVING. (Also, thanks for the top tier recommendations 👌)
When I saw Alone With You In The Ether in your reading list, I got so excited for you to discuss it because I deeply love that book!! So happy you liked it 💛
gotta love tier rankings, gotta love jack
this is such a good video idea and i’d love to see it done with more genres! i feel like it’s a quick and easy way for people to get recommendations too, and read a (hopefully) guaranteed great book^^
I love your reviews because you never give away too much of the storyline. So happy I found you, I usually fast forward other booktubers because of spoilers but I watch your videos from start to finish. Thank you.
Jack, I cannot thank you enough for the North & South appreciation. It's SUCH a criminally underrated book, it baffles me how people don't talk about it enough 😭
One of my absolute favourites! Time for a reread I think.
No literally!!! I love North and South
Colleen Hoover gives me the ick in general
I loved the quotes you use for your ranking tiers. Fun video as always Jack!
love island season !!!!
so happy for your final thoughts on alone with you in the ether i was rooting for you in goodreads!! that book was so good it pulled and put me out and into a slump i wish i could read it for the first time again
I think people hating on Colleen Hoover is only mildly because of her writing, and mainly because of her romanticizing and normalizing abuse, misogyny and in general toxic relationships. Especially since she sells her books as romance which then creates a really problematic view on relationships especially since it’s often marketed to a younger audience.
My favorite story about love is "A Prayer for Owen Meany." It's not about romantic love, but there's more genuine love in that book than in most romance novels.
Jack you have such a huge influence on my reading habits, I‘ve read almost all the books from first and second tier and none from the last two 😂
Thank you for the Emma appreciation and the other relationships in the novel. My favourite book featuring a love story is The Fault In Our Stars - full of very quotable lines, it also has the added complication of a cancer storyline and how it affects relationships (not only romantic but the relationship between Hazel Grace Lancaster and her parents, especially her mum, is beautiful) and it RIPPED my HEART out. I was bawling on the floor at the end (don't read at night kids) Also, Agustus Waters was my first fictional love. I'm sorry, but I had to use their full names, because they use them in the book.
Respectfully, watching this right after finishing "I Kisses Shara Wheeler" and rating it 5 stars was kinda jaw-dropping lol
Even I gave it 5 stars
same! i liked it quite a bit
Same, it’s actually my fave book from the author hahaha. I liked it more than RWRB. Like okay, it might be predictable but what I love most abt the book is the side characters. And maybeee ‘manipulative popular blonde girl’ is like… my thing, so I might be a bit bias here hahaha
lmao i gave it 5 stars too. because i just couldn't stop relating to how queerness & religious trauma & repression was portrayed in the book. i have actually given all cmq books 5 stars because something about the way they write queerness just hits me right in the heart.
same! enjoyed it
i didn't care for her book about the gal stuck in time on the train though...
Song of Achilles stayed with me for so long afterwards! Have you read “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe?” It is such a beautifully written book and a wonderful love story.
The Aristotle and Dante books are my absolute favorite romance series!!! I’m obsessed with them, I’ve read them about 5 or 6 times
thank you for this lol - as someone who hasn’t found much romance that intrigued me, i’m using the whole first tier as a starting point for getting into romance and i’m excited!!
I love your tier ranking videos so much! You give lots of reflections on lots of books, and I always come away with several that I look forward to reading. Today was no exception, thanks.
Just finished Cleopatra and Frankenstein the other night and it was the first love story that really made me swoon since Normal People!! Loved it so much & you're so right, the peripheral characters are so engaging. I feel like I want an Audrey spin-off, a Quentin spin-off, a Zoe spin-off, etc
honestly would EAT UP a video on your review of the full bridgerton series. julia quinn is hands down my favorite historical romance writer and i love love love the Bridgerton series, although the duke and i isn't my favorite book in the series. Benedict's, Eloise's, and Hyacinth's books are my favorites!!!
Girl he started the series and hated it.
Every time I watch one of your videos, my TBR list completely explodes. It's not healthy! It'll never end!! Thank you for always sharing your reads with so much description & humour that I can't help buying more books, you're amazing !!
I have this is how you lose the time war quotes plastered all over the pages of my sketchbook, "tell me something true or tell me nothing at all", that book made me cry
one of the sweetest romances I've ever read was in a cozy fantasy called legends & lattes. I feel like folks who are married and really love their partner write that sort of affection and warmth really well. another fave was in priory of the orange tree, which was epic fantasy!
I want Jack to read some full-blown smut and rank them 😆
If you haven't read "Maybe in Another Life" by Taylor Jenkins Reid yet, I highly recommend it. It's a beautiful story about different kinds of love.
Glad to see your love for The Song of Achilles is still going strong. I picked it up because of you and loved it so much, I got a tattoo inspired by it. :)
Fantastic rankings Jack! 😊
Love the love island tier ranks 😂
needed this love slander today
The Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan is definitely my favorite love story, and it has such a warm and unique feel to it. It's so rare for me to encounter books like that nowadays, and I have never read a more intimate dynamic between two characters.
Omg u know who Sherryl Jordan is? Are u a New Zealander? My fave Sherryl Jordan books are the Winter of Fire and the Anger of Angels.
Whoa, this comment gave me flashbacks to my teenage years, I loved this book, I forgot how awesome her books are
Loved the video, Jack! Belated Happy Valentines Day to you! I don't know if anyone has ever classified Anxious People by Fredrik Backman as a love story, but it definitely explores relationship dynamics of several different couples. 10/10 would recommend.
Really love seeing specifically Jack’s train of thoughts on One Last Stop between the 2 categories 👁️👄👁️
Personally, nothing can beat Anna Karenina and Vronsky for me.
Your channel is a treasure! Never have I ever been so agree with a book ranking❤
I really really like 'It Ends With Us' though. It tore my heart apart and put it back together like please.😭 I'm taking notes because I trust there opinion and in all honesty my current read is 'It Happened One Summer' I am in love with it, I love there options and tysm for helping me with recs that are good and bad!
I'm so so glad you put Lie With Me in the top category, I just ordered a copy for myself and one for my friend's birthday, and I was hoping it was a good decision :)
I plan to read alone with you in the ether this month. Can’t wait to read it even more now that you gave it a high rating.
ahhhh I’m so jealous you get to read it for the first time!
I love love that you liked seven days in June. I just read it last month and the story still sticks with me ❤
I have read Lie With Me because of you, Jack. I ALSO LOVE THIS AS MUCH AS YOU DO.
THANK YOU SM for saying call me by your name is not a healthy relationship!!! I feel like everyone's shipping these two to death while I thought they have a quite problematic power dynamic because of their age difference. Well I will say they absolutely have chemistry
I think a lot of people criticise this relationship actually, and by extension the book. Is the relationship unhealthy? Absolutely. But is it a good book? Absolutely!
9final0 squad
LOL
I came to say that too 😂
We're the real og's
Ayyyyyyy 🤙🏼
9FINAL0 FRFR
OMG when you mentioned that one scene from Evelyn Hugo I was so excited that's one of my favorite scenes in the book!
Jack Edwards finally read and loved Alone With You in the Ether!! I can die happy now.
jack liking colleen hoover more then emily henry is wild how do you do that
im scared of this man tbh
both mid
"This Is How You Lose The Time War" is one of the most beautiful books I've ever read!
One of my writing teachers last term was one of the authors
@@Melanie-jy2nw No way! That's so cool!
Agreed!
Adding One Last Stop to my Wishlist! Sounds right up my alley. Thank you 😊
Night circus is SO GOOD! OBSESSED 💗💗❤️🤍❤️❤️❤️🤍🤍🤍🤍
I feel the same way about Emily Henry books. Beach read was SO DULL it put me in a reading slump 🥲
They way you described I Kissed Shara Wheeler reminds me a lot of the plot of Paper Towns - with the search to find her, (though for me at least I really liked the ending of Paper Towns), which makes me wonder if you've read any John Green books/have thoughts on them.
Great to see a fellow North and South aficionado! I actually watched the miniseries first, loved it, then read the book, loved it more.
part two!!!! bc there are so many more we haven't considered
Carol, by Patricia Highsmith, is my absolute favourite love story (and one of my favourite books, full stop). Not to mention its historical significance to lesbian stories!
seeing MY SHARA next to the... piece of... work. called the Spanish love deception made me crazy🥲
currently reading exciting times!! really enjoying it!!
I think we have similar taste in the genre so this is very helpful for me in choosing which romance book to read next and which ones I'm probably better off removing from my TBR.
Red white and royal blue TOTALLY read like fanfiction I'm so glad you agree. It could have been about 200 pages shorter, the political subplot was so boring.
I think you should definitely give beach read by Emily Henry a try. It’s Emily Henry at her best . And both main characters are authors too and it kinda at times feels like a love letter to the craft of writing and the gift of books
I love beach read!
Agree, Beach Read has more authentic tension than her other books, and the characters were better developed imo!
PLEASE read the stationary shop if you haven't already. I feel like you would love it!
Hey Jack… I don’t see a website or any place to send you suggestions or emails…
I’ve recently developed an addiction to your videos. Love to find someone out there as enthusiastic about fiction as you.
I wanted to make two book recs to you that I think you might love. In your video about the book recommendation service you wanted a book in translation and these two were both translated. The first rec is The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz. It’s like 1400 pages but the Everyman Library edition is beautiful and it’s a soaring family saga. Quo Vadis is my second rec.. it’s a melodramatic retelling of the time surrounding the crucifixion. I’m not even Christian and I thought it was beautiful and captivating.
Also, I am a fellow New Yorker and there is someplace you should know about here in town. It’s called the Center for Fiction. You will love it!
Jack really out here giving us content for Valentine’s to make the singles feel less alone hahah
It’s me. I am singles.
I think you and I are the same person, I'm singles as well
I am also singles
@@_____2219 maybe we're triplets
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller is SOO good and really beautifully written. Highly recommend. :)
Yessss, great to see some love for 'North and South'! My favourite classic novel, and I love how seamlessly Elizabeth Gaskell weaves together social and interpersonal issues. I'm always recommending it to people who want to read more 19th century literature.
THANK YOU for this public service. I generally avoid all romance novels since they can be SUCH a miss sometimes. I totally trust your judgement so now I know which ones I can actually pick up and approach
I love that he asked who still writes like that after a quote that’s just medium sizzle to me after I just posted a fanfic for today. I was coming on here to busy myself from second guessing as I always do, and I’m like.. bech, me, lol I do! I still write like that. I’ve always written like that. Lol even as a kid.
Tbh.. I feel super embarrassed about how I like to write because I don’t want people to feel it’s trying too hard or being pretentious. I just can’t help my romantic side comes out while writing.
“If I was dating this book I would ghost her like Casper” 😂 I’m gonna use this line!
im really happy with how diverse this list is :)
You just made my day, Thanks for posting 😄