[The Saucepan Man]

Linda Smith (her of the "Big Read" TV panel) was on Room 101 (a UK comedy programme) tonight. Once again, she took the opportunity to bash LotR, labelling it as a book that only "engineering students called Dave read" and describing it as absolute rubbish. She certainly displays a complete lack of any understanding of the book, and so one can only assume that she has never read it. In which case, she only makes herself look rather silly by describing a book that she has never read as absolute rubbish.

But, given that this is the second time in the space of a month that she has gone out of the way to rubbish the book on television, I do wonder whether she has some personal reason for disliking it so much. Perhaps she was attacked by a rare first edition in her childhood. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]