what's the difference between books that very few people ever hear, books that become super popular only for a limited amount of time, and books that basically become staples of mythologies, cultures or just the human experience, and go on to maintain relevancy even hundreds and thousands of years after they were first written?
I know quality is one thing, but that can't be all.
Romeo and Juliet are literally the poster children of the entire concept of love and romance. The rest of Shakespeare's works are just as immortalized.
Homer's Illiad and Odyssey were literally written over two thousand years ago, and yet today, one of them have a movie adaptation releasing soon that is one of the most anticipated films of the year. Not to mention, they're both a staple of Geek culture.
In the there's is the 1001 Nights, Journey to the West and others. How have they lasted so long? #entertainment