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You can’t gripe if you don’t vote
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Entertainment Weekly has put up a series of polls you can check out on its website under the general umbrella “Vote! The Best in Books in 2007.”
We bring you the results, which are still changing as the votes pour in, as a fascinating way of viewing the reading habits of Americans.
The EW editors knew if they just asked their readers for “Best Book,” it would be Harry Potter in the kind of landslide usually found in Cuban elections. So instead they asked readers for the “Best Non-Harry Potter Novel.” Smart plan. But the results will be sort of like “Biggest Non-Michael Vick Pro Quarterback Meltdown.”
Under “Best Non-Fiction Book,” you’ll be pleased to know “The Dangerous Book for Boys” is well ahead of Walter Isaacson’s “Einstein” biography.
(Edited: I made a mistake earlier on another poll question, and feel like an idiot, so I’ve yanked it. If only all of life were like that!)
Hey, it’s an antidote to all the Top 10 novel lists we see this time of year that make us feel stupid cause we haven’t read enough of them.
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