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Fw: bbc: the big read -- where's nabokov?
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From: "Tina Colquhoun" <tacolquhoun@btopenworld.com>
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> As such surveys usually are (how does one compare Ulysses to Harry
> Potter fx??), this one was very random and really mainly a bestseller
> list. About 20% of the top 100 were children's books(!?). It was
> surprising that Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Joyce got a look-in at all in
> this context. There was nothing pre early 1800s (Jane Austen) and no
> Shakespeare. But then maybe we Brits are too dim to read him as well...
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> Alex Colquhoun
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From: "Tina Colquhoun" <tacolquhoun@btopenworld.com>
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> As such surveys usually are (how does one compare Ulysses to Harry
> Potter fx??), this one was very random and really mainly a bestseller
> list. About 20% of the top 100 were children's books(!?). It was
> surprising that Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Joyce got a look-in at all in
> this context. There was nothing pre early 1800s (Jane Austen) and no
> Shakespeare. But then maybe we Brits are too dim to read him as well...
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> Alex Colquhoun
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