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Topic: *World Book Day* top 10 books
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blue moon
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From: U.K
Registered: Dec 2007
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posted March 06, 2008 02:24 PM
 
Apparently, today is World Book Day.
http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/campaign/worldbookday.html#mirror World Book Day survey results of top ten books we can't live without The Mirror has reported that Pride and Prejudice has been voted the book the nation* cannot live without. A survey to mark World Book Day 2007 showed 20% of those surveyed would put Jane Austen's classic at number 1. Classic works also dominated the rest of the chart:
1) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2) The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4) Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6) The Bible
7) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8) 1984 - George Orwell
9) His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
(Mirror, 1 March 2007)
* i.e the U.K
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BlueRoamer
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posted March 06, 2008 02:27 PM
I"m just finishing his dark materials....AMAZING series!!!Makes harry potter look like a coloring book IP: Logged |
AcousticGod
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posted March 06, 2008 02:55 PM
I started reading that once while waiting for my oil to get changed. Looked good.  I'm kind of surprised by the list. We can't live without these fictional books? (I don't mean they're all fictional, but what 9 out of 10?) IP: Logged |
blue moon
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posted March 06, 2008 03:58 PM
I'd guess the respondants were asked what was their favourite book. Then the Mirror translated that as - ...books we can't live without! Most of those are on the school syllabus. Probably the last time many of the people answering the survey read a book. That sounds snobby, it's not meant to be, it's just the way it is. I've never seen my mother read a book, for example. Ever. IP: Logged |
BlueRoamer
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posted March 06, 2008 08:30 PM
Uhh I'm sorry which of those books is not fiction?Surely you don't mean the bible, the greatest work of fiction ever. IP: Logged |
AcousticGod
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From: Pleasanton, CA, USA
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posted March 06, 2008 10:04 PM
If I remember right, historians do take some history from the Bible.IP: Logged |
wheelsofcheese
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From: UK
Registered: Jan 2008
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posted March 07, 2008 04:10 AM
Have to agree with the Jane Eyre. Fabulous fabulous book, very spiritual. IP: Logged |
blue moon
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posted March 07, 2008 04:59 AM
I'd go with Wuthering Heights. But with my one pound voucher for World Book Day, I purchased that modern classic, "Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets". IP: Logged |
wheelsofcheese
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From: UK
Registered: Jan 2008
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posted March 07, 2008 05:06 AM
Morning Blue!
Question:
Is the reader meant to like any of the characters in Wuthering Heights? Cos I couldn't give a monkeys what they did.
Catherine was a spoilt little bint and Heathcliffe a nasty piece of work. IP: Logged |
wheelsofcheese
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posted March 07, 2008 05:07 AM
Captain Underpants I loved though, so totally believable.  IP: Logged |
blue moon
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posted March 07, 2008 06:10 AM
It gets my vote because Emily Bronte manages to write in a regional dialect without making the characters sound like sub-morons. Irvine Welsh is the only other writer I can think of who does it decently. His characters aren't very pleasant either, but I liked Filth. That was a good book. I suppose there is case for menance being added to a tale where the reader feels like they want to throttle the characters in the story. Nelly Dean was alright though, wasn't she? Jane Austen is witty but there isn't much depth, it hardly inspires you to battle through the harder parts of life. I think I'm the only person in Britain who hasn't read a Harry Potter book. IP: Logged |
wheelsofcheese
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From: UK
Registered: Jan 2008
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posted March 07, 2008 06:22 AM
Nelly Dean, yep, she was cool. Love Irvine Welsh too, Trainspotting much better than the film. I like the short stories book, whichever that one was, the one where his Nan is a skag dealer. Ace.IP: Logged |
zenwarner
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From: tx, usa
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted March 07, 2008 01:53 PM
heck yea! i love them all. theyd all be on my top list too. cept maybe the bible. just to be honest...IP: Logged |
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