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[krazykitkat]

My website is back up.

Any opinions on the HBO series, Carnivale? ABC advertised it tonight...have they now got the HBO contract instead of 9?

I've read 5 (*) of the top 10 favourite books according to ABC's survey.

1. Lord of the Rings (J R R Tolkien)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) *
3. Holy Bible
4. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) *
5. Cloudstreet (Tim Winton)
6. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (J K Rowling)
7. Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell) *
8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) *
Equal 9. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) and Catch 22 (Joseph Heller)
10. A Fortunate Life (A B Facey) *

4 of the 5 were also high school English texts.
Number 6 is on my bookshelf.
Have that many people really read the Bible and actually consider it a favourite book? Or was it a more "I probably need to tick that box" type thing (wasn't in the top 100 in the UK)?
Never even tried LotR. I killed the Hobbit after about 2 pages. Did Tolkien have an editor? But the Umbilical Brothers summarising it was hilarious.

Comments

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

Carnivale is weird and oddly engrossing. Give it two or three episodes before you decide if you like it or don't know why you're watching this bizarre show. I love it, and am delighted HBO-US will be starting the second season in January.

[krazykitkat.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'll give it a go. There's a few familiar faces, Clancy Brown and Patrick Bauchau.

[tangleofthorns.livejournal.com]

I've read seven of them. The ones I've not are Pride and Prejudice, Cloudstreet (which I've never heard of!) and A Fortunate Life (ditto).

I wouldn't consider the Bible a favorite book, but I've read--well, so much of it that I think I qualify.

And Lord of the Rings is a lot better if you read it when you're a little kid and can skim over the boring, faux-historical parts and read the few sections with plot.

[pene.livejournal.com]

Australian books, those ones you haven't heard of.

[krazykitkat.livejournal.com]

Don't like Austen?
As Pene pointed out, the other 2 are Australian.
I've read barely any of the Bible.
I was around 8-9 when I tried the Hobbit and so loathed it. So boring.

[eustaciavye.livejournal.com]

lots of people read the bible as literature. It's useful to have a working knowledge of bible stories when reading western lit because so many metaphors have their origins in something biblical. And of course religious people read it for spiritual reasons.

[krazykitkat.livejournal.com]

I could never get into it. I've probably got a very general knowledge from scripture at school.

[pene.livejournal.com]

I'm terribly mainstream and have read 9 of the 11. I haven't read A Fortunate Life or Catch-22. Should I?

[krazykitkat.livejournal.com]

My brother liked Catch-22, he did it at high school.
I read A Fortunate Life in primary, so I can't recall a lot. But I adore auto/biographies.

[sangerin.livejournal.com]

Someone whose television-related opinion I value very highly has reccommended Carnivale to me, so I'm going on the assumption that it's good.

[krazykitkat.livejournal.com]

Taking note.