People lying

[legendis.god]

Just heard on rado theer been a survey done in which three quarters of people who say theyve read the classics and shakespere etc are actually lying.
Theyve read bits and quote snipppets tho.

Do you think thats an accurate figure ?

[sqad617]

As low as 75%?.....higher I would say.

[joggerjayne]

I don't believe either of you.

You're both lying.

Personally ... I'm sitting.

[Barmaid]

I have no idea. The funny things people lie about.

Although in fairness, in my english A level, the question was asked on Richard II "How much sympathy do you feel for Richard after he returns from France?". I didn't even know he'd been to flaming France!!!!!!

[Bbbananas]

A lot would know snippets, famous passages and synopses - but I agree with sqad - probably about 75% have not read classics in their entirety.

Of course I have - by the age of 14 I'd 'done' them all ;-)

[sqad617]

No problem jayne....I have a technique for that position as well.

[Bbbananas]

...except for Trollope.

[dustypuss]

I dont know leggy lets get to the ( Bottom) of this.

[Harry-Wragg]

Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive.

Sir Walter Scott (Marmion)

[joggerjayne]

Thanks, Sqad. I'll, erm ... bear it in mind.

=0)

[BigDave44]

Has anyone read Paradise Lost and not fallen asleep well before the end?

[Bbbananas]

Walter Scott, Harry - I thought that quote was from Spiderman II

[BigDave44]

Sir Harry - 75% of people asked think that quote is form William Shakespeare. By the way, it's a boring poem.

[dustypuss]

(oo)
.{!!!}

Alas poor yorick

[BigDave44]

Dickens is like fine wine - you need to be old enough to appreciate it. I should know!!

[joggerjayne]

If it had been from Shakespeare, wouldn't it have been written in pentameter, rather than quadrameter?

[joggerjayne]

Doc ... Dickens was literally paid by the word.

Much of his work was serialised in periodicals, and the longer he kept writing, the more he earned.

[dustypuss]

Big dave. or pis*d enough.

[BigDave44]

I firmly believe that Dickens didn't plan most of his novels in advance. Take Great Expectations - who would plan for the criminal to return later as a millionaire?

[daniela31]

wasn't dickens aka boz?.............or baz?..........biz?...............or some such liverpudlian abreviation.