Iiiinteresting...

Monty Python's Flying Circus, Episode 6, "Cruncy Frog" sketch contains a reference to "cockroach cluster." I have written before about Ms. Rowling's grievous plagiarism from this show, re: "Aliens Turning People into Scotsmen," before now, but I must say that this really is going too far. "Cockroach cluster", indeed! Is any work safe from this pilfering madwoman?

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The Museum, Libraries and Arts Council's list of 30 Books Every Adult Should Have Read:

Bold the ones you have read. Italicize the ones you would like to read. Strike out the ones you never plan to read, or started but couldn't finish.


To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Bible...read as an eight-year old because I wanted to know what the fuss was about
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
1984 by George Orwell
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens...too many times! ack!
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte...my ain true love
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen...reading over the holiday again because I didn't like it as a kid but y'all have good taste and you like it
All Quiet on the Western Front by E M Remarque
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Tess of the D'urbevilles by Thomas Hardy
Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens... although I genuinely loathe Dickens
The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold...rumor has it that Peter Jackson et alia are doing a film
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
avid Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzenhitsyn

I approve of this list, cepting the Dickens. Stupid Dickens.