Tolkien Beaten By Austen

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Eomer of the Rohirrim

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...

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?