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Book of lies
Mar. 6th, 2009 12:15 pm1. 1984 - George Orwell (42%)
2. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (31%)
3. Ulysses - James Joyce (25%)
4. The Bible (24%)
5. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (16%)
6. A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking (15%)
7. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie (14%)
8. In Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust (9%)
9. Dreams from My Father - Barack Obama (6%)
10. The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins (6%)
Top ten of books that people have lied about reading.
interestingly i've genuinely read 1984 and although harrowing it's not like Ulysses or Brief History of Time, apparently quite hard to read.
Never lied but i let someone think i'd read Camus 'The Stranger' once...when i'd just read the first few lines, LOL. They assumed and i couldn't be bothered to correct them.
So any books you've lied about reading? i'm guessing Atlas Shrugged is going to be in there for the Americans...
Oh and saw Persepolis last night, i highly recommend it - very moving and touching, human, funny and informative about the iranian revolution and ensuing fallout of the 'glorious islamic revolution' which to Marji's family as communists/socialists was far from 'glorious' - and i suspect a lot of voices like that are silenced by the current regime.
2. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (31%)
3. Ulysses - James Joyce (25%)
4. The Bible (24%)
5. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (16%)
6. A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking (15%)
7. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie (14%)
8. In Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust (9%)
9. Dreams from My Father - Barack Obama (6%)
10. The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins (6%)
Top ten of books that people have lied about reading.
interestingly i've genuinely read 1984 and although harrowing it's not like Ulysses or Brief History of Time, apparently quite hard to read.
Never lied but i let someone think i'd read Camus 'The Stranger' once...when i'd just read the first few lines, LOL. They assumed and i couldn't be bothered to correct them.
So any books you've lied about reading? i'm guessing Atlas Shrugged is going to be in there for the Americans...
Oh and saw Persepolis last night, i highly recommend it - very moving and touching, human, funny and informative about the iranian revolution and ensuing fallout of the 'glorious islamic revolution' which to Marji's family as communists/socialists was far from 'glorious' - and i suspect a lot of voices like that are silenced by the current regime.