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**The Saucepan Man** · 10-20-2003, 11:03 AM

Did anyone else see the program on BBC on Saturday night that went through the top 100 books and then had panelists discussing the 21 that had made it to the shortlist? The treatment of LotR by this group of so-called experts was appalling. [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] There is a good report on it here at TORN, with which I thoroughly agree.

It will be intersting, though, to see where LotR ends up. I'm not holding out much hope for the top spot, but top 5 is a distinct possibility, possibly even top 3.

10-20-2003, 11:03 AM	#8
The Saucepan Man Corpus Cacophonous Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A green and pleasant land Posts: 8,390	Did anyone else see the program on BBC on Saturday night that went through the top 100 books and then had panelists discussing the 21 that had made it to the shortlist? The treatment of LotR by this group of so-called experts was appalling. [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] There is a good report on it here at TORN, with which I thoroughly agree. It will be intersting, though, to see where LotR ends up. I'm not holding out much hope for the top spot, but top 5 is a distinct possibility, possibly even top 3. __________________ Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind!