[zone411]

If your tastes require solid character development then sure. But other people might enjoy a book more for its plot or ideas. There are books (especially in science fiction), movies, and TV shows that are widely recognized as very good without a lot of character development.

[arkh]

> But other people might enjoy a book more for its plot or ideas.

I'm on the "don't care about character development" side. But those books are atrociously slow. The whole "3 body problem" could be condensed to maybe 50 pages.

[beambot]

To be "best of all time", it definitely needs all three: ideas, plot, & characters.

[askmike]

Not according to everyone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯