Humiliation: The Vote

[chickenfeet]

Nominations are in. Let the games begin!

[Poll #1013448]

Comments

[unblinkered.livejournal.com]

I ticked The Bible even though I haven't read it in its entirety - I have read vast amounts of the New Testament, though and chunks of the old one. Does that count?

[blonde222.livejournal.com]

I detect the hand of the great GCSE question setter in the sky.

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

Colour me nerd. I didn't check the Bible because I haven't read all of it. And I haven't read "The Tin Drum" yet (but I can borrow it off my daughter and probably will), and haven't read, nor intend to read. "Bleak House."

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I figure with the Bible that 'having read big chunks' counts. I have no idea if I have read all of it. Probably not, but I have no idea which bits I've read and which not.

[globetrotter1.livejournal.com]

In that case, consider I clicked the Bible. I certainly haven't read all of it.

[lemur-catta.livejournal.com]

I've only check things I've read (or listened to) completely so, no Divine Comedy, since I've only read Inferno, no Lord of the Rings since I only read The Hobbit and Fellowship of the Ring, never got all the way through Lolita or The Three Musketeers, etc...

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

Re comments above: OK, in that case I could have done the Bible.

Which makes me an even worse nerd.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I think that's 'better nerd'. Nerd is good!

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[gramarye1971]

For a moment, I couldn't remember whether or not I'd read Bleak House. I keep getting it confused with Hard Times.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to say that I only read Lord of the Flies because we did it at school. I hated it. I read Lord Jim after seeing the film at the age of about 12, but decided that it was one of those rare instances where the film is better than the book. *g*

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to say that I only read Lord of the Flies because we did it at school

You and everybody else I suspect

[dyddgu.livejournal.com]

Me, miss, me! I read it because we didn't do it at school, and I wanted to find out why everyone else did.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

It's funny. It's one of those books that almost everybody has to read at school, on both sides of the Atlantic, which is quite rare. Usually, if I ask, I find that it's the only Golding that a person has read which is rather a shame as it's atypical and, IMO, by no means his best work. The main result of forcing kids to read it seems to be to put them off Golding for life.

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

I haven't read it. Nor was I asked to. But we did have to watch the film.

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

Isn't he mostly a playwright?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

No. Pincher Martin, Freefall, The Spire, Rites of passage, Close Quarters, Fire Down Below etc

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

Oh. *blush* Perhaps I'll win this round. :-)

no, I LIKE lord of the flies

[jen-c-w.livejournal.com]

Lord of the Rings on the other hand is pointless tosh.
I couldn't be more pleased animal farm beats it out.

[jen-c-w.livejournal.com]

rites of passage and fire down below are both lovely. :)

[unblinkered.livejournal.com]

Wasn't on our list - or anyone's list, I don't think - in Ireland. But if memory serves, we were stuck with Shakespeare, Dickens and Emily Bronte for non-Irish non-poetry works. Actually, other than King Lear, The Plough and The Stars and some bits and bobs by Donne and Yeats, I have managed to completely forget what I did for the Leaving Cert!

Re: no, I LIKE lord of the flies

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I'm glad somebody else thinks so. IMO, the world would be a better place if at least 99% of the books with elves in had never been written.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Yes, I like The Spire and Free Fall too

[ironed_orchid]

The Inheritors.