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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.

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[krazykitkat.livejournal.com]

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