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[wellinghall]

Check it Out: Bed and Breakfasts for the Booklover
"and our favorite--The Edgar Allan Poe Room, with black walls, a stuffed raven and an imitation pendulum axe over the bed"
http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=50152&cat=1

SFX's Top 100 SF&F Authors
Tolkien no 2 shock!
http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?showtopic=29056

ETA: To Kill a Mockingbird voted Greatest Novel Of All Time
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2138827/To-Kill-a-Mockingbird-voted-Greatest-Novel-Of-All-Time.html

Comments

[chainmailmaiden]

If I ever had a B&B I'd do themed rooms too. I'd be very bad at having a B&B though, as I hate getting up early. I'd have to employ someone else to cook the breakfasts for me :-)

Don't think much of that list of top authors. I could cope with Tolkien not being no 1, if it was an author like GRRM, but Robert Silverberg at no 73?!? That's insane!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I could go with the themed rooms ... but I don't know about that Poe room!

And yes, Silverberg (from what little I have read of him, I confess) should be higher than 73!

[chainmailmaiden]

We nearly have a replica of that Poe room in our house, as I did buy our soft toy raven to go in the black room - not that I was thinking of Poe at the time. Now I wonder where I could get a pendulum axe...

[romancinger.livejournal.com]

Books: not surprised Pratchett is top, he is the topical one - and his work equals JRRT's in my opinion. Otherwise, mostly what one would expect. But I'm rather bemused how high Philip K Dick is. He's top rated in SF at Fictionwise too, and I just don't get it!

[romancinger.livejournal.com]

PS As for 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - I'm sure there are many, many candidates more worthy...

[romancinger.livejournal.com]

PPS Maybe it's because TKaM has been a set book in schools for ages, so people think it's the right kind of book to vote for? (OK, now shoot me down in flames)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

No, that sounds entirely plausible.

[estiel.livejournal.com]

I confess I never read it. Saw the film, though, and remember only that Gregory Peck was gorgeous. (I was very young.) Mockingbird is required reading in many U.S. high schools, which is when, as the story says, young consciences are forming. I got knocked out by Catcher in the Rye myself.