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Might be worth watching this on TV to see Richard 'Klepto' Madeley lose his wool at Ricky Jervais's ribald comments. But they probably won't show that bit :(

Number 20 is hilarious. Number 24 isn't bad. But the rest? I hate to be the 'party pooper', but they would appear to have been written by people with a very poor grasp of creative writing. What age range are we talking about here?

Silas Marner. For that 'feel good' factor at the end. If I'd had another daughter I might even have called her Hepzibah...

Robinson Crusoe? The man who invented the 5-day working week...he had everything done by Friday. I'll get my coat....

The General, by Siegfried Sassoon 'Good morning; good morning!' the General said When we met him last week on our way to the line. Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of ’em dead, And we’re cursing his staff for incompetent swine. ‘He’s a cheery old card,’ grunted Harry...

"Sir Thomas More and his friends" by E.M.G. Routh. A first edition too, 1934, picked up in a secondhand bookshop for the princely sum of £4. On Abebooks it comes in around four times that price!

My daughter is 8 (going on 9) and she reads lots of JW's books. Mind you, her reading age is about 14 (her school's statement, not mine). I have no problem with her reading them though.

I'm glad you did though. I love this book. Despite the subject matter, I always regard it as an optimistic story. It doesn't matter what the regime says, or thinks, or does, it cannot EVER completely stifle the human spirit.

The Mill on the Floss - I struggled with this many years ago, it was the dialect writing that threw me. Tried it again last year and enjoyed it. Must be a 'maturity' thing! The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - loved this. Underrated in my opinion. But then I am English, and I enjoy reading about...

We all have our likes and dislikes. But I see three of my favourite classics belittled on here too often for me to stay silent any longer! Wuthering Heights - unique, powerful, dark, even a little disturbing. Silas Marner - heart-warming, a beautiful tale of loss and redemption. Pride &...

Overrated? Never. Underrated more like. A beautiful story about redemption. How can your heart fail to melt when, at the end you just know which choice Hepzibah will make? (I won't spoil it for those who haven't read it yet).

No Sir (or Madam) you may not! You may dislike Wuthering heights but it IS a classic and it IS a unique piece of work, loved by many - me included.

I'd second all that.

'Minitru' has been at work 'revising' your history...

Ah, but by the same token, how can you say that 'Pride & Prejudice' is overrated? You may not like it, but by any reasonable standard it is a timeless classic, both as social satire and as a study of human nature (which really doesn't change much!) I'd include in my argument 1984 from the...

Jewelry - 'jool-ry' Jewellery - 'jool-ery' Emphasis on first syllable in each case. Both versions are correct and in current usage - at least in the UK! I prefer the latter myself.

I hate to say this, but the 'squirl' thing just sounds like laziness to me - witness many Americans' pronounciation of other, similar words - for example, mirror, terrorism. GB jnr wants to wage war on 'terrism' - sounds to me like he has a vendetta against holidaymakers! Ooo...'vendetta' -...

Well....I'm English, and I always say 'roo-ter' - after all, it routes ('roots') information from one place to another. As the song lyrics say, 'get your kicks on route ('root') 66' - not even the original artist says 'raowt' 66! Rout ('raowt') means to displace enemy forces from the...

"Spanner in the works" department here - I have to say it's one of my 'gave up on it' books. Nothing against the material, just couldn't stand the style of the prose.

Nooooooooooooooooo....one of my favourite novels! If 'favourite' is the right word - it's scary and unsettling, no doubt about it, but then it's supposed to be. I must have read it half a dozen times and it never fails to impress.