Humiliation: The Vote

[chickenfeet]

Nominations are in. Let the games begin!

[Poll #1013448]

Comments

[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. :-)

[jen-c-w.livejournal.com]

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

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Yes, I like The Spire and Free Fall too

[ironed_orchid]

The Inheritors.

[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!