The Blonde Diaries

I try and scan Yahoo! News at least once a day. Without subscribing to cable, working late nights at work, and not purchasing a newspaper, there really isn’t another option. Thank goodness for the internet otherwise I’d be fairly clueless on current events on a daily basis. Last week, Yahoo posted an article about reading books. Apparently there was a study conducted in Great Britain that found 66% of people surveyed lied about the books they read. As you can probably guess, the reason most people admitted to for lying was because they were trying to impress someone they were talking to or to appear more intelligent. Shocker right? I just hope they weren’t caught in that lie as it could be fairly embarrassing. A listing of the top 10 books people frequently lied about reading are listed below. Quite an interesting list huh.

The study, carried out on the World Book Day website in January and February, surveyed 1,342 members of the public.

Those who lied have claimed to have read:

1. 1984 – George Orwell (42 percent)

2. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy (31)

3. Ulysses – James Joyce (25)

4. The Bible (24)

5. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert (16)

6. A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking (15)

7. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie (14)

8. In Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust (9)

9. Dreams from My Father – Barack Obama (6)

10. The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins (6)

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