[Thenamir]

I'll say this: the furthest I usually go in bending the truth is responding "fine" to the ubiquitous question of "How are you?" when in fact I am not fine at all. But the book on that list I'd be most likely to lie about, is saying that I've not read Harry Potter, when in fact I've read most or all of 3 or 4 of the series. The shame, the horror...

On a more serious note, one thing that makes me wonder -- some years ago, having read LOTR meant that you weren't serious about literature at all. The literati (by which I mean the so-called "experts" in literature who either write books that are painful to read, or the critics who try to persuade us that such pain is "for your own good") used to look down their sky-pointed noses at JRRT and those who read him. They passed us off as too simple to comprehend the subtle nuances and obvious superiority of Chaucer or Bronte.

But now, folks lie about reading LOTR to appear more intelligent? What a wonderous turning of the tables! Rejoice, Tolkien geeks -- we have been recognized as the intelligent visionaries that we are!

For what it's worth, I've seen two different movie versions of Pride and Prejudice -- does that count? (And as an aside, I suffered through them both -- with the exceptions of Elizabeth and her father, all the characters are so insufferably silly and stupid that I find them painful to watch. I shudder to think how they are portrayed in print.)

For the record, on this list I've read 1, 5 and 10, and parts of 4 and 9.