Tolkien Beaten By Austen
 

Whoa!

Jane Austen has finally beaten Tolkien on a poll!

For World Book Day (which is today) there was a survey done to find the" ten books you can't live without" in the UK. And Pride and Prejudice was the winner! Here's more.

And here's some interesting facts:

So in the UK, Lord of the Rings is a book for men. ;)

Surely, if you've read a book once, you could live without it. They are hardly addictive drugs. ;)

Look at that list. What a country... :rolleyes:

Ahem, what are you doing on here then if you can live without it? How many times have you, sir, read LotR? Non-addictive? Of course.... ;)

Yeah. I doubt most people have read more than one or two of those books, and some of those they will have been made to read at school...No accident that Jane Eyre and Great Expectations* have just been on telly, or that P&P has Colin Firth in it, eh?

*wasn't this that 'Eastenders' style adaptation?

The very notion of the necessity of a copy of Mockingbird on your shelf to live your life strikes me as Python-esque.

I'm waiting for the poll after Far From the Madding Crowd, with Julie Christie and Alan Bates and Terence Stamp is re-released or shown on the television. There's one that can knock off Austen and Bronte (the both of them) together.

Perhaps Brits took to reading Mockingbird after learning that Bruce Willis named his daughter Scout?

To kill a mockingbird was a set text for O Level and my younger cousins also did it at school. I hate to say this that it may be one of the few "serious" books that many Brits have read. Must say I was never keen .....

However I feel a little smug becasue I have read all of these apart from Great Expectations (and not the bible cover to cover)...

I liked how in the newspaper I read the story in it had the books and the authors and for the Bible it said God hee hee. Also I remember that Lord of the Rings beat P&P to the BBC Big Read a few years ago.