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Daisy Brambleburr · 10-20-2003, 12:38 PM

I watched the Big Read on TV, and I wasn't very impressed. They dismissed a lot of books, showed random and irrelavent video clips and the discussions and information was genrally not very good or imformative. I don't think the panel's discussion of LotR was particularly good either. I think I heard someone say that it was 'rubbish', and it seemed to me that they dissed a lot of books without a given reason, sometimes when they hadn't even read them. I too agree with the TORN report.
What did you think about the Hobbit not making it to the top 21 because Tolkien already had one there? Surely if the public liked it enough to vote it there it should be there, regardless of how many other books by the author there are.

[ October 20, 2003: Message edited by: Daisy Brambleburr ]

10-20-2003, 12:38 PM	#10
Daisy Brambleburr Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 334	I watched the Big Read on TV, and I wasn't very impressed. They dismissed a lot of books, showed random and irrelavent video clips and the discussions and information was genrally not very good or imformative. I don't think the panel's discussion of LotR was particularly good either. I think I heard someone say that it was 'rubbish', and it seemed to me that they dissed a lot of books without a given reason, sometimes when they hadn't even read them. I too agree with the TORN report. What did you think about the Hobbit not making it to the top 21 because Tolkien already had one there? Surely if the public liked it enough to vote it there it should be there, regardless of how many other books by the author there are. [ October 20, 2003: Message edited by: Daisy Brambleburr ] __________________ 'What news from the South, O sighing wind, do you bring to me at eve? Where now is Boromir the Fair? He tarries and I grieve.'

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