{"id":1421,"date":"2009-03-05T22:08:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T05:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/03\/oh-yeah-sure-ive-read-it-newspeak-and-whatnot\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T22:08:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T05:08:30","slug":"oh-yeah-sure-ive-read-it-newspeak-and-whatnot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/05\/oh-yeah-sure-ive-read-it-newspeak-and-whatnot\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Oh yeah, sure &#8211; I&#8217;ve read it. Newspeak and whatnot&#8230;.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/mar\/05\/uk-reading-habits-1984\" target=\"_blank\">from The Guardian UK<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Our guilty secrets: the books we only say we&#8217;ve read<\/h1>\n<p>\u2022 65% in survey admit lying about classic novels,\u00a0readers are also impatient and dog-ear the pages<\/p>\n<ul style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; font-size: 0.86em; line-height: 1.25; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 12px; position: relative; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; min-height: 58px; border-color: #d1008b\" class=\"article-attributes multi-pub\">\n<li style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-weight: normal; display: block; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"byline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/markbrown\" title=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{Mark Brown}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #005689; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" name=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{Mark Brown}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}\">Mark Brown<\/a>, arts correspondent<\/li>\n<li style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-weight: normal; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"publication\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theguardian\" title=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{The Guardian}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{2}\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #005689; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" name=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{The Guardian}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{2}\">The Guardian,<\/a>\u00a0Thursday 5 March 2009<\/li>\n<li style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-weight: normal; display: block; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"history\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/mar\/05\/uk-reading-habits-1984#history-byline\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #005689; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" classname=\"rollover historylink\" id=\"historylink-byline\" class=\"rollover historylink\">Article history<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; position: relative; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" id=\"article-wrapper\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2009\/3\/5\/1236220614012\/War-and-Peace-by-Leo-Tols-001.jpg\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" alt=\"War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy\" height=\"276\" width=\"460\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: #666666; margin-bottom: 13px; font-size: 0.857em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px\" class=\"caption\">War and Peace and Nineteen Eighty-Four &#8211; guilty reading secrets? Photograph: Public Domain<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.&#8221; Ring any bells? How about: &#8220;The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats.&#8221; Many will not have read the novel from which these are among the opening lines &#8211; but nearly half of us are happy to lie and say we have, a survey reveals today.<\/p>\n<p>George Orwell&#8217;s Nineteen Eighty-Four comes top in a poll of the UK&#8217;s guilty reading secrets. Asked if they had ever claimed to read a book when they had not, 65% of respondents said yes and 42% said they had falsely claimed to have read Orwell&#8217;s classic in order to impress. This is followed by Tolstoy&#8217;s War and Peace (31%),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/jamesjoyce\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #005689; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">James Joyce<\/a>&#8216;s Ulysses (25%) and the Bible (24%).<\/p>\n<p>The poll, conducted to tie in with World Book Day today, also reveals that many of us are impatient readers &#8211; we skip to the end &#8211; and are not particularly bothered about how we treat the actual book &#8211; we turn the page to keep our place.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/mar\/05\/uk-reading-habits-1984\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Guardian UK Our guilty secrets: the books we only say we&#8217;ve read \u2022 65% in survey admit lying about classic novels,\u00a0readers are also impatient and dog-ear the pages Mark Brown, arts correspondent The Guardian,\u00a0Thursday 5 March 2009 Article history \u00a0 War and Peace and Nineteen Eighty-Four &#8211; guilty reading secrets? 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