摘要
无人问津的俱乐部你认为萨尔曼·拉什迪、比尔·克林顿、保罗·科埃略和费奥多·陀思妥耶夫斯基的共同点是什么？嗯。除了都是出书作家之外．他们还是一个新俱乐部的成员——英国人声称的他们不能读完的那些书的作者。在最近的一项关于书籍的调查中有很多有趣的发现。其中一项是。通过对4000名成人进行调查发现，32％的人没有读完J．K．罗前的“哈利·波特”系列丛书的第四本《哈利·波特与火焰杯》。榜单上另外一本书是詹姆斯·乔伊斯1912年的小说《尤利西斯》，这本书多达l000页，排在第三位。令人吃惊的是，这项在线电池的书目中也包括路易·德·伯尼埃尔的小说《柯莱利上尉的曼陀林》。从1994年至今，这本书已经售出了超过两百万册，但能够读完这本书的人似乎少之又少。
The unwanted club What do you think Salman Rushdie, Bill Clinton, Paulo Coelho and Fyodor Dostoyevsky all have in common？ Well, aside from the fact that they＇ re all published writers, they are also members of a new club： authors of books that Britons claim they cannot finish. In a recent survey on books, there were some interesting findings. For one, the survey of 4,000 adults found that 32% couldn＇t finish the fourth book in the ＂Harry Potter＂ series, Harry Potterand the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling. Another book on the list was James Joyce＇ s 1912 novel Ulysses, which runs to more than 1,000 pages. It came in at third place. Surprisingly, the online survey also included the Louis De Berni^res novel Captain Corelli＇s Mandolin.The book has sold more than 2 million copies since 1994, but it seems that not many people are capable of finishing it.
出处
《海外英语》
2014年第12期19-19,60,共2页
Overseas English
