Posted by Katharine on October 10, 2003 at 10:42:30 from 81.96.140.205 user Katharine.
In Reply to: Re: The Big Read posted by Mike Dennis on October 10, 2003 at 07:44:50:
Actually they put 'Pride and Prejudice' up against 'Bridget Jones's Diary'.....
Mike - You're quite right, of course, about the arbitrariness of the comparison. But suppose Captain Flint (the original one, not Ransome’s) was holding a gun to your head? ‘Now then, you scurvy son of a sea dog’ says Flint ‘You can have one book to take with you to this accursed isle. Which is it to be? Swallows and Amazons or Wind in the Willows? Choose, damn you, afore I feed you to the sharks.’
Surely in those circumstances you’d choose the Ransome?