Favourite unread books

A few websites are commenting a study that shows that he average shelf is filled with 80 novels we have never read. According to the Daily Mail:

The research by Lindeman’s wine found Pride And Prejudice is the book most of us lie about having read, followed by The Lord Of The Rings, Jane Eyre, Harry Potter and The Hobbit.

Number 5 on the list is Wuthering Heights.

Daily Express adds that,

Bookcase “essentials” include Jane Eyre and To Kill a Mockingbird.

Similarly, actress Celia Imrie admits to never having read Wuthering Heights in The Times.

We all know the story and I think it’s absolutely wonderful. I love the idea of three sisters living on the heath together; I think Emily was the maddest one of all, so I associate with her. There’s a sort of wildness about her which I love. I’m also a very slow reader — but I jolly well ought to have read it and one day I suppose I will. (Lauren Davidson)

She most certainly knows he story, as she took part in a retelling of it: Sparkhouse.

However, Daily Kos shows the other side of the coin:

I have more books than I've ever cared to count. I reread books often, both classics and light reading. I have some books I read every year or two, like Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice. Or Anne of Green Gables. Others I read occasionally, and usually in binges - Trollope, Dickens, other Victorians. George Eliot somewhere in between. (ramara)

Michael Fassbender's role as Mr Rochester in the latest screen adaptation of Jane Eyre gather a couple of comments today. Alt Film Guide thinks that,

Fassbender will likely be a Best Actor Oscar contender, whether for Shame or for more Academy-friendly fare like Jane Eyre or A Dangerous Method. (Andre Soares)

And Capital New York says,

Michael Fassbender is cinema's current It-boy, with his gloriously erotic and tormented performance as Mr. Rochester in this year's Jane Eyre. . . (Sheila O'Malley)

Leticia Rodriguez from My San Antonio takes a look at several on-screen Janes.

The Guardian reviews Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller by Jennifer Kloester, describing Georgette Heyer's novels as follows:

If you love reading novels, have an even moderately developed sense of camp, and are not too much of a literary snob, Georgette Heyer is just about the best fun it is possible to have between soft covers: romantic, funny, zippy and, because she wrote the same book over and over, entirely reliable (as the publisher Carmen Callil once put it: "She just used Jane Eyre and jiggled it around 57 times"). (Rachel Cooke)

The Daily Beacon argues how history is always at our fingertips:

But even outside the realm of family heirlooms — or junk, depending on your family — you can tell a great deal about people you have never met through their material goods. A walk through any antique store, estate sale or yard sale gives evidence to this fact. A copy of “Jane Eyre” with an inscription in the front can tell you that the previous owner of the book loved to read classic literature at age seven. (Sarah Russell)

The Yorkshire Post welcomes the relaunched History to Herstory website.

Indystar mentions a skater once known as 'Jane Ire, a twist on the novel “Jane Eyre.”'. Get Reading's And Another Thing recommends Wuthering Heights 2009. You're Dripping Egg reviews Jane Eyre 2011.