The BBC (you’ve gotta love it) have been doing something they call “The Beeb’s big read”, and people have been voting for their best-loved novel. The resulting list, as Tinka observes:
Unlike most lists, this has been compiled not by experts but by the viewing public. That alone ensures some hiliarity: Joyce’s Ulysses next to Jeffrey Archer’s Kain and Abel?
But then, if I extract the list of 47 that I have read (or even of somewhat less – 39 – that I have read and enjoyed) I still get Ulysses next to Kane and Abel. So who am I to complain?