Page 1 of 3
Britain's favourite 21 Books
Posted: 2003-10-20 11:38am
by InnerBrat
List and vote!
Thoughts?
The original 100 can be found
here.
Personally, I'm appalled
Goblet of fire beat all five Terry Pratchett books, but otherwise, a nice selection, methinks.
BTW - the voting was (I think) done by category, so it's no surprise
1984 is there while
Brave New World isn't.
Posted: 2003-10-20 11:42am
by Zac Naloen
my favourite out of those is cATCH-22
I haven't read the others
Posted: 2003-10-20 11:42am
by Embracer Of Darkness
Vote: 1984.
Posted: 2003-10-20 11:43am
by Ghost Rider
Potter beat out Hitchhiker's?!
Yeech...well it is a popularity vote.
Still amazed Animal Farm is that high...
Posted: 2003-10-20 11:44am
by InnerBrat
Ghost Rider wrote:Potter beat out Hitchhiker's?!
Yeech...well it is a popularity vote.
Still amazed Animal Farm is that high...
Umm - it's in alphabetical order
Posted: 2003-10-20 11:45am
by Zoink
Just to cause problems, I pretended I was from the UK and voted for Harry Potter
Posted: 2003-10-20 11:51am
by Ghost Rider
InnerBrat wrote:Ghost Rider wrote:Potter beat out Hitchhiker's?!
Yeech...well it is a popularity vote.
Still amazed Animal Farm is that high...
Umm - it's in alphabetical order
I uh.....knew that.....
D'oh, D'oh, D'OH 
Nice list nonetheless...good to see His Dark Materials up there.
Still I do agree...all FOUR Potter books?! Sorry a a couple are good but they are hardly uniformly good...it's essentially putting up all of Herbert's Dune Series.
Posted: 2003-10-20 11:53am
by InnerBrat
Ghost Rider wrote:Still I do agree...all FOUR Potter books?! Sorry a a couple are good but they are hardly uniformly good...it's essentially putting up all of Herbert's Dune Series.
What pissed me off was that they clearly had series and trilogies up there (
His Dark Materials,
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy;
Lord of the Rings) - why couldn't thay treat the Harry Potter saga as one? I understand not treating the Discworld books as a series, but Harry Potter is a defined story with a definite beginning a foreseen end.
-edit-- saw your edit.
Posted: 2003-10-20 11:56am
by haas mark
It would be a difficult decision for me (from what I've read out of that list) between 1984 and Rebecca, but ultimately, 1984 comes out on top.
~ver
Posted: 2003-10-20 12:05pm
by BoredShirtless
Winnie the Pooh. Some stories don't just break but disintegrate age barriers.
Posted: 2003-10-20 12:08pm
by Joe
Well, The Woman Warrior isn't on it, so that automatically puts it above most American lists.
Posted: 2003-10-20 12:16pm
by haas mark
BoredShirtless wrote:Winnie the Pooh. Some stories don't just break but disintegrate age barriers.
That was
right after the other two.. I wish I still had my Winnie the Pooh books.
~ver
Posted: 2003-10-20 12:22pm
by BoredShirtless
verilon wrote:BoredShirtless wrote:Winnie the Pooh. Some stories don't just break but disintegrate age barriers.
That was
right after the other two.. I wish I still had my Winnie the Pooh books.
~ver
To be honest I was just bullshitting.
Posted: 2003-10-20 02:08pm
by Lord Pounder
I voted CS Lewis. Us men from east Belfast stand by each other.
Posted: 2003-10-20 02:10pm
by haas mark
BoredShirtless wrote:verilon wrote:BoredShirtless wrote:Winnie the Pooh. Some stories don't just break but disintegrate age barriers.
That was
right after the other two.. I wish I still had my Winnie the Pooh books.
~ver
To be honest I was just bullshitting.
I wasn't.
Winnie the Pooh is an all-time classic. That's why they're so damned expensive these days. At least, halfway-decent copies of them.
~ver
Posted: 2003-10-20 11:37pm
by Dalton
Why is To Kill A Mockingbird up there? I thought this was British-only books. And how do you, IB, know that the Potter books ranked higher than Pratchett?
Posted: 2003-10-21 12:05am
by Beowulf
Dalton wrote:Why is To Kill A Mockingbird up there? I thought this was British-only books. And how do you, IB, know that the Potter books ranked higher than Pratchett?
At the very least, you can vote for HP on the website, but you can't vote for any of the Pratchett books. Also, she live in the UK, so she's likely to have seen the results on TV or something.
Posted: 2003-10-21 12:16am
by Gandalf
LoTR.
I'm reading it now for like the 5th time.
Posted: 2003-10-21 12:19am
by El Moose Monstero
It was definately televised, as my sister was watching it when I rang home yesterday... bless her...
Posted: 2003-10-21 12:37am
by Zaia
Is it wrong that I told them I was from Wales? ...I'd like to go to Wales someday. That's almost the same...
Anyway, I had to go with probably my all-time favourite book ever, Catch-22 by the man, Joseph Heller. A few runners-up would have been The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, and maybe Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling.
Posted: 2003-10-21 12:45am
by El Moose Monstero
It's ok, the UK Fraud squad has never hung anyone they caught.
yet...
Posted: 2003-10-21 12:50am
by Zaia
The_Lumberjack wrote:It's ok, the UK Fraud squad has never hung anyone they caught.
yet...
Hah. Fun-nee.
I'd say I'm sorry, but I'm not. So, yeah. That's all.
Posted: 2003-10-21 02:22am
by The Duchess of Zeon
I selected Northern Ireland. It's true, from a certain point of view.
Posted: 2003-10-21 02:29am
by El Moose Monstero
You see? You lot are pretending to be in England, because really, you just want us Brits to come back over there and take over again...
JOKE! For the love of God, it was a Joke! Please don't kill me... 
Posted: 2003-10-21 02:49am
by Gandalf
The_Lumberjack wrote:You see? You lot are pretending to be in England, because really, you just want us Brits to come back over there and take over again...
I'd like it if the British reclaimed Australia. Then we could have a cultural heritage.