Links for your Monday

[eldritchhobbit]

Happy Monday! I have some links to share:

Articles:

* The Guardian reports on which books 2,000 readers have chosen as the Greatest Love Story of All Time, based on a poll sponsored by the UKTV Drama Channel.

The Top Ten list looks like this:
1 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, 1847
2 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 1813
3 Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, 1597
4 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, 1847
5 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, 1936
6 The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, 1992
7 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, 1938
8 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, 1957
9 Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence, 1928
10 Far from The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, 1874

Marin Kettle responds in The Guardian with "If Wuthering Heights is a love story, Hamlet is a sitcom."

* Duck of Minerva writes about "What Harry Potter Inherits from Star Wars."


Other Literary News:

* For those of you who use iTunes, Lit2Go from the University of Southern Florida offers a number of free, unabridged audiobooks from the likes of Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, the Brontë sisters, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and H.G. Wells, among others.

* The finalists for this year's World Fantasy Awards have been announced.


"He liked the steady sway and rhythms of voyaging, of movement, of the perpetual mystery that lurked beyond the far horizon. This was humanity's role."
- Gregory Benford, "At the Double Solstice"

Comments

[melissagay.livejournal.com]

Yeah, wow, I gotta say I agree with Kettle on this one. Wuthering Heights is a fantastic book, but a love story it ain't!!! And, seriously, Romeo and Juliet??? Gone With the Wind????? How about the Most Dysfunctional Love Stories Of All Time-- then these would definitely top my list! Even Lady Chatterly's Lover... I was rooting for them, yes, but I'm not sure they were the healthiest pairing, and I don't know that I'd place a bet on the long-term survival of their relationship.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

How about the Most Dysfunctional Love Stories Of All Time-- then these would definitely top my list!

Well said! Boy meets girl, boy and girl play head games with each other, boy and girl cheat on each other, boy and girl die. I'm not sure what that tells us about those who voted in the poll! (Then again, maybe they didn't actually read the books!)

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I really liked Rebecca and should read it again. I think the last time I read it I was 12.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

I really liked it, too! I recently read a book of hers I'd never read before, The House on the Strand. It had a science fiction element to it (time travel), but otherwise it had much the same atmosphere of lurking mystery. It was a wonderful read. I need to read more of her work.

[saffronhouse.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the Lit2Go link! Fabulous resource!

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

You're most welcome! I was so excited when I discovered it. There are some readings available there that I've never seen anywhere else! I'm glad it's useful for you, too.

I love your icon, by the way.

[agentxpndble.livejournal.com]

I dread your posts... They take *all day* to read... ;-)

Great article about HP/SW and thanks for the lead about iTunes.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

They take *all day* to read... ;-)

LOL! Wait, you weren't doing anything today, were you? *blinks innocently* I mean, you do have all the time in the world, right? *snorts*

Great article about HP/SW

I'm glad you liked it, too!

and thanks for the lead about iTunes.

I was so excited when I discovered this. Some of the books aren't available in audiobook form anywhere else that I've found (Charlotte B's The Professor, for example). I thought of you the moment I saw they had H.G. Wells!

OT

[marm.livejournal.com]

Love the icon!

Re: OT

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! I do, too. It's by the wonderful galadhir.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

This is my favourite version of Wuthering Heights (also the only one I've been exposed to, um):

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

*cackles with laughter* I love Monty Python!