Thursday 5 March 2009

Brits Lie About Favourite Books to Get Into People's Pants



Cracking story from the Telegraph, click here for full article. Brilliant...I love the image of a foppish looking English gent, sitting in his study pretending to read War and Peace with a Dick Francis 'page-turner' hiding on the inside!

Books we pretend we have read:

1. 1984, by George Orwell (42%)
2. War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy (31%)
3. Ulysses, by James Joyce (25%)
4. The Bible (24%)
5. Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert (16%)
6. A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking (15%)
7. Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie (14%)
8. In Remembrance of Things Past, by Marcel Proust (9%)
9. Dreams from My Father, by Barack Obama (6%)
10. The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins (6%)

Authors we actually like reading:

1. J K Rowling (61%)
2. John Grisham (32%)
3. Sophie Kinsella (22%)
4. Jilly Cooper (20%)
5. Mills & Boon (18%)
6. Dick Francis (17%)
7. Robert Harris (16%)
8. Jeffrey Archer (15%)
9. Frederick Forsyth (13%)
10. James Herbert (12%)

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