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Fw: bbc: the big read -- where's nabokov?
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From: "Holly A. Cupala" <holly@cupala.com>
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> Since the list addresses "the nation's best loved novel" rather than
> "the best novel ever written," I do not find it surprising it all that
> 20% should be children's books.
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> Holly Cupala
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> From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] On
> Behalf Of D. Barton Johnson
> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 1:08 PM
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> Subject: Fw: bbc: the big read -- where's nabokov?
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tina Colquhoun" <tacolquhoun@btopenworld.com>
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> > As such surveys usually are (how does one compare Ulysses to Harry
> > Potter fx??), this one was very random and really mainly a bestseller
> > list. About 20% of the top 100 were children's books(!?). It was
> > surprising that Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Joyce got a look-in at all in
> > this context. There was nothing pre early 1800s (Jane Austen) and no
> > Shakespeare. But then maybe we Brits are too dim to read him as
> well...
> >
> > Alex Colquhoun
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From: "Holly A. Cupala" <holly@cupala.com>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (34
lines) ------------------
> Since the list addresses "the nation's best loved novel" rather than
> "the best novel ever written," I do not find it surprising it all that
> 20% should be children's books.
>
> Holly Cupala
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] On
> Behalf Of D. Barton Johnson
> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 1:08 PM
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Fw: bbc: the big read -- where's nabokov?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tina Colquhoun" <tacolquhoun@btopenworld.com>
> > ----------------- Message requiring your approval (13
> lines) ------------------
> >
> >
> > As such surveys usually are (how does one compare Ulysses to Harry
> > Potter fx??), this one was very random and really mainly a bestseller
> > list. About 20% of the top 100 were children's books(!?). It was
> > surprising that Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Joyce got a look-in at all in
> > this context. There was nothing pre early 1800s (Jane Austen) and no
> > Shakespeare. But then maybe we Brits are too dim to read him as
> well...
> >
> > Alex Colquhoun
> >
> >
> >
>
>