The Big Read Top 100


(you didn't hear this from me)

I'm not surprised.. I first read Jane Eyre as a young girl, but when I went back to Uni in my thirties 2 years ago it was a set book on two of the modules. I wrote two very different esssays on the book, and enjoyed it loads more as an adult than I ever did as a kid.

V pleased I had rediscovered it before I found the Eyre Affair!

p.s. still slogging through the literature course...2 years down, 2 to go :-)

Jane Eyre is my favourite book ever... hence my interest in TEA. Have trouble reading it now without imagining Thursday lurking in the back story!!

q for those who've read it. When thursday was young, she jumped into the book and changed the narrative. Does the real (our) book have thursday's amendment in it? I could just read JE, but thought someone would know...

It does indeed - in fact the page Thurs reads from the ms. in Haworth in 1960-whatever is the same page I read in Haworth in 1999 ... which makes me wonder if Mr. Ff. visited Haworth around the same time I did.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

I got the full list and OH MY GOD there is such crap in!

Jeffrey bleeding Archer... Captain Corelli... ahhhhrgh

But some really good ones as well...

I didn't think Captain Corelli was too bad, actually ... terrible film, though. Erm, any more hints?

(I suppose the Tolkien Society will rig the election, as usual).



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

There are a few there yes, and about 4 or 5 Pratchetts...

And Brideshead Revisited woohoo

Yes, I quite enjoyed Corelli, but it's not a patch on his first three novels.

These top 100 thingies always seem to be overflowing with unmitigated rubbish, as people vote, I guess, for stuff they've enjoyed recently, rather than thinking about the actual question. I mean, Princess Diana in the top 10 most important Britons ever? Really?

And yes, you're right, Jon, if I were a betting man I'd put serious money on LoTR coming out top.



Jesus saves; Buddha does incremental backup.

I preferred Corelli to his others, but then I'm allergic to magic realism. I agree LoTR will win (it always does, and that was before the films), but just for once it might be justified. The Big Read isn't asking for the best or the most important or even the highest selling, but for the best-loved. I think LoTR might actually have a claim on that.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

Oooh yes, and there was I ciriticising people for not thinking about the actual question. Ooops. Pot, this is kettle . . .



Jesus saves; Buddha does incremental backup.

yeah but i still find it hard that so many people loved Kane and Abel

jon: if thursday's 'change' to the narrative is in our current JE, how did she manage it? Surely she'd have had to be reading the original manuscript for it to change our copies?

where can we see this list?

is it the original manuscript in Howarth, I saw it as a child (not interested then- too young) and the next time we went we didn't have time to walk up from the station.

the train was good though :-)



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actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up

Er, yes, Dave, she was reading the original ms. As was I. It was on show in a glass case at the Bronte Parsonage museum in both cases .... the same one subsequently nicked by Hades.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

perhaps we should arrange a meet there in the summer, what do you think?



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Sylvester says.... *plock*




actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up

What a fantastic idea Andrea .... cos there's a dead good pub in Haworth. The ms. of JE isn't normally there tho' ... it was in real life only on loan from the British Library.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

The list is only being shown tomorrow in a BBC show.

I got it in advace under strict embargo and i'm already talking too much.

on monday i can post the full list

well I guess that would be safer, in case we decided to book jump and altered something too.

Andrea
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Sylvester says.... *plock*




actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up

Carla said: I got it in advace under strict embargo and i'm already talking too much.


I am now responding: OH PHOEY!!

I guess I'll have to wait then :-)

Andrea
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Sylvester says.... *plock*




actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up