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WICKES
07-29-2008, 08:31 AM
Hey guys!
Has anyone been on http://www.pollthepeople.com ??

I'm an English Literature student working for this new website, which was recently launched to invite the public to vote for their Top 5 albums, films and books


My top 5 films:

1. Withnail and I
2. Lawrence of Arabia
3. Jules et Jim
4. The Life of Brian
5. The Seventh Seal

Top 5 albums:

1. The Stone Roses: debut album
2. Radiohead: 'Ok Computer'
3. The Smiths
4. Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures
5. The Clash: London Calling

Books:

If you mean novels that is very hard. It would include:

Madame Bovary
Middlemarch (I've heard it said this is the greatest novel in the english language, with the possible exception of Ulysses)

D H Lawrence: Sons and Lovers, Women In Love

Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies

Something by P G Wodehouse

Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha, Steppenwolf

Great Expectations (Dickens' best)

Non fiction:

Shakespeare, the Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
Jung's autobiography
Richard Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale