As a counterpoint to the BBC's Big Read, Independent.co.uk (http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/features/story.jsp?story=404252) has compiled a list by 50 leading lights on the literary, political, opinion-forming and media scene to identify their worst reading experiences - imagine to be "stuck in a prison cell with an interminable, academic mega-bore (JRR Tolkien)". :D :D

Hey, but I love Frodo!!!

Wow . . . those people are HARSH!

And the one that didn't like LOTR is . . . well . . . he probably talks to himself. ;)