literary jail beckons again
Mar. 8th, 2009 10:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adelaideseanRemember that long conversation we had about litratcher a couple of weeks back?
Well...
"Asked if they had ever claimed to read a book when they had not, 65% of respondents said yes and 42% said they had falsely claimed to have read Orwell's classic [1984] in order to impress. This is followed by Tolstoy's War and Peace (31%), James Joyce's Ulysses (25%) and the Bible (24%)."
I swear I really truly have read Ulysses!
PS. Thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
catsparx for the link.
PPS. Gary Numan rocks!
Well...
"Asked if they had ever claimed to read a book when they had not, 65% of respondents said yes and 42% said they had falsely claimed to have read Orwell's classic [1984] in order to impress. This is followed by Tolstoy's War and Peace (31%), James Joyce's Ulysses (25%) and the Bible (24%)."
I swear I really truly have read Ulysses!
PS. Thanks to
catsparx for the link.PPS. Gary Numan rocks!
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ah, but have you read all three of those
Date: 2009-03-08 09:54 pm (UTC)Ulysses ... more than once, at uni 20 years ago
Bible .. all the way through - at school in UK, we had a brilliant evangelical/anglican lay preacher for a teacher who gave us a very solid education - versus indoctrination :)
Re: ah, but have you read all three of those
Date: 2009-03-08 11:08 pm (UTC)The Bible is a fascinating book. So many great stories (if you ignore all the boring bits) and a great source of ideas.