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by andrew 
my wife found an interesting article from the "guardian" newspaper website...
[since the link to the "guardian" is apparently a blacklisted word for this server, please do a search on "guardian" and "the books we only say we've read" to find the article]
people tend to lie about ever reading a book because it'll make them seem smarter... right?
i love how the bible made it to the top 4 for the UK...
an interesting question came to mind... what would the US list look like?
we came up with the following list (in no particular order):
- walden
- catch-22
- hamlet
what do you think?
10/03/09 22:30:01 pm, 
3 comments
Comment from: tasha [Visitor]
ah, yes - the guardian... the column by miserablist funny-man (and that is a real categorisation of comedians in the uk) charlie brooker about said article (also in the guardian) is quite amusing.
but alas, i'm having the same problem as andrew. and the search engine for the guardian is shite, so you'll have to do a search for charlier brooker, click on the top link for all of his articles and then it'll be the top one on the list that comes up (that's what happens when they don't bloody index the comment section).
i think that the lists between the uk and us would be quite similar. for all ex-uofcers, the wealth of nations would surely feature...
but alas, i'm having the same problem as andrew. and the search engine for the guardian is shite, so you'll have to do a search for charlier brooker, click on the top link for all of his articles and then it'll be the top one on the list that comes up (that's what happens when they don't bloody index the comment section).
i think that the lists between the uk and us would be quite similar. for all ex-uofcers, the wealth of nations would surely feature...
14/03/09 @ 07:42
Comment from: Beni [Member]
Tasha! Now I am dying with curiosity--what are the other categories of comedians in the UK?
here's the list:
Those who lied have claimed to 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%)
For a US guess, I would think The Bible would also be the same. I would add Hamlet to the list, and Huck Finn/Tom Sawyer, or maybe Beloved.
here's the list:
Those who lied have claimed to 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%)
For a US guess, I would think The Bible would also be the same. I would add Hamlet to the list, and Huck Finn/Tom Sawyer, or maybe Beloved.
31/03/09 @ 13:31