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I think she's a talentless bimbo. She probably couldn't care less what I think...but I still think I'm right :D

Upton? That's her first name? Where I come from it's an Anglo-Saxon place name! "We thought we'd call her Upton" - yeah, right....

Not quite that clear cut I'm afraid - read Robert Graves's introduction in his novel 'Wife to Mister Milton' to get a different view of Milton's attitude to censorship.

SFG75 and Sparkchaser - I thank you! And I don't care what anyone says - you never see Vladimir Putin and Dobby the house elf in the same room...

Translated into what? Modern English? Then it ceases to be Shakespeare, and there is no point in studying it as Shakespeare. If you want the low-down on the stories then Sparknotes or equivalent will do that for you, or any good English history book for the history plays - up to a point, since...

By whom have these books been banned, and why? Animal Farm - why would anyone want to ban that? (ignoring the obvious old-school hard-line Communists like Vladimir call me Dobby Putin)

Herbal Nytol. And/or read in bed. Always make me go to sleep - and not because the book is dull either!

Whaaaaat? Now you've burst my bubble! :D

Amen to that. My wife read to our children a lot when they were younger, and still does even now (they are 9 and 14 - the 9 year old appreciates it more I think). OK, I admit, I could too, but I'm lazy...and she reads aloud better than me - honest! And she and I always have books on the go, or...

Not forgetting of course, that 87.4% of statistics are made up on the spot :D

While I'm quite prepared to concede that a lot of people - not just Americans - do not read, I always distrust these surveys. The sample size for this one was 1003 - in a population of over 200 million, however good your demographics, that is statistically insignificant. I remember a survey...

If you think that then you weren't paying attention! I assume you mean the Keira Knightley movie. It is tripe of the highest magnitude. The best that can be said of it is that it is 'based on the novel by...', i.e. 'it has the same title as...'

'Wife to Mr. Milton' by Robert Graves. They use the word in everyday speech (the novel is set in the 1640s). I have to confess, although I have seen your user name on here a lot, I never twigged that it was a real word or knew what it meant until now!

Kansas must be a scary place...all those drivers that can't read...not to mention the tornados. Do you own a pair of ruby slippers by any chance? (and we're back to ELO again, never mind L. Frank Baum!) And I read your user name in the book that I have on the go at the moment too - woooo...

Tut, tut; ending a sentence with a preposition? That is the sort of thing up with which we will not put! (W. S. Churchill, IIRC)

You know, I have a real problem with this. Don't get me wrong, I'm not having a pop at you simply because you didn't enjoy 'Silas Marner'. I see you are from Tennessee, and I'd hazard a guess that your knowledge of English social history is sketchy (not a criticism, my knowledge of American...

I try, I try. And sometimes succeed! Another ELOism for you - it was years before I figured out what is said at the end of 'Mister Blue Sky' (side 3 track 4 on the vinyl album). "Please turn me over". Logical at the time, but meaningless now when it is all on one CD!

Hear, hear. Literature? Fiction? Commercial fiction? (and, presumably then, non-commercial fiction?). "What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet" They are all books, good, bad or indifferent, matching peoples' good, bad or indifferent taste. I think...

I bet they still play their old Pink Floyd albums backwards too! I remember years ago, I had the ELO vinyl album - 'Face the Music'. Side 1, track 1 (all you teenies out there will be thinking 'WHAT?') there was a passage where Jeff Lynne is speaking backwards. So I recorded it on my old...

'Tim (the tool man) Taylor' eh? Watch out if he tries to modify your Insinkerator...:D