Similar chess books to Kasparov's my great predecessors, which cover classics with commentary

I agree with earlier posts... Marin has fantastic books... and game collections from the players themselves like Tal are generally fantastic even Kramniks book is good but I have a suspicion it is mostly ghost written

Is this a thread about the phrase, "in my humble opinion", or is it a thread about books similar to Kasparov's My Great Predecessors? I don't think people really care about the expression here, but, since that seems to be the subject of the point that you wish to make, I looked online and found this:

"Used to introduce or qualify a statement, as expressing one's own view, not one backed by external authority or to be accepted without question"

If one's personal opinion is that something is "fantastic", I don't see anything wrong with saying so and including an indication that the opinion is not to be accepted without question. If you want to argue otherwise, so be it, but as an NM writing in this thread, I think that you would inspire more interest if you chose instead to write about your own opinion of the original Alekhine, Euwe, Smyslov, and Tal books on their best games.

I see nothing toxic or contradictory about expressing one's opinion that something is "fantastic", while including an indication that the opinion is not to be accepted without question. Honesty would indeed be commendable for someone who had been asked to be the judge for what is truly humble here. However, as far as I am can tell, you appointed yourself to that position. Being “fairly flippant” does not change your adopted role involving an attack on an individual’s language choice instead of commentary on books similar to the Predecessor books. If one makes such a choice (while not being concerned about what is of interest in the thread topic), then is it perhaps reasonable that the matter balloons into an "incident"?

10000 hours won't get most people a GM title

Most of my game collections are those of individual greats, Morphy, Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Keres, Fischer, Anand, etc. and World Championship matches. Besides Kasparov's Great Predecessors book, the great games books in my personal collection:

1, Graham Burgess, John Nunn, John Emms-The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games-Carroll & Graf Publishers (1998), 100 thoroughly annotated games: 9 from the 1800's, 21 from 1900-40, 70 from 1953-1997.

2. The Most Instructive Games Ever Played, Chernev (1965), Descriptive Notation: 62 GM games illustrating various themes.

3. From-Morphy-to-Fischer-a-History-of-the-World-Chess-Championship, Horowitz (1973). Descriptive Notation.  A Morphy-Anderssen game then the official world champs from Steinitz to Fischer.

Wow.  I must've read this book a number of times when I was stating out in chess in the late 70s, since it was one of the few chess books in my local library 

What's "puffin"?

Does it have to do with mushrooms?

And who's doin' the puffin'?

Indeed, modern life exudes grimness.

On most levels.

We are soulless, computerised individuals who lack a longer-view perspective.

All we want to achiev is improve ours "physical" living standards.

But what is this worth actually?

Humans are spiritual beings, first and foremost, hence the widespread depravity of modern humanity.

Until we reconnect with the spiritual, things look grim.

https://www.amazon.com/H-R-Pufnstuf-Complete/dp/B00465I17Y

Gee, two more oil tankers sunk.

War on the horizon, or will we never see it?

Concerning "My great predecessors", well, it's an excellent series of books, but too advanced for the average player, it seems.

Kasparov analysis, especially on his matches with Karpov, is outstanding, as he has been directly involved, though how many players do comprehend the handling of games by the very best?