Britain's favourite 21 Books

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-10-20 11:38am

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.

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2003-10-20 11:42am

my favourite out of those is cATCH-22

I haven't read the others

Embracer Of Darkness · Post by **Embracer Of Darkness** » 2003-10-20 11:42am

Vote: 1984.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-10-20 11:43am

Potter beat out Hitchhiker's?!

Yeech...well it is a popularity vote.

Still amazed Animal Farm is that high...

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-10-20 11:44am

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

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2003-10-20 11:45am

Just to cause problems, I pretended I was from the UK and voted for Harry Potter

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-10-20 11:51am

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.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-10-20 11:53am

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.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-10-20 11:56am

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

BoredShirtless · Post by **BoredShirtless** » 2003-10-20 12:05pm

Winnie the Pooh. Some stories don't just break but disintegrate age barriers.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-10-20 12:08pm

Well, The Woman Warrior isn't on it, so that automatically puts it above most American lists.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-10-20 12:16pm

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

BoredShirtless · Post by **BoredShirtless** » 2003-10-20 12:22pm

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.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-10-20 02:08pm

I voted CS Lewis. Us men from east Belfast stand by each other.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-10-20 02:10pm

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

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-10-20 11:37pm

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?

Post by **Beowulf** » 2003-10-21 12:05am

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.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-10-21 12:16am

LoTR.

I'm reading it now for like the 5th time.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2003-10-21 12:19am

It was definately televised, as my sister was watching it when I rang home yesterday... bless her...

Post by **Zaia** » 2003-10-21 12:37am

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.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2003-10-21 12:45am

It's ok, the UK Fraud squad has never hung anyone they caught.

yet...

Post by **Zaia** » 2003-10-21 12:50am

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.

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2003-10-21 02:22am

I selected Northern Ireland. It's true, from a certain point of view.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2003-10-21 02:29am

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...

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-10-21 02:49am

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.