tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7932429135630556215.post5202752436454207887..comments2024-02-26T13:12:10.143-05:00Comments on Lizok's Bookshelf: News Roundup: Survey Says, Awards, and GulagLisa C. Haydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10139281544357167953noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7932429135630556215.post-6078343481465457172009-10-06T16:48:37.893-04:002009-10-06T16:48:37.893-04:00Please keep in mind that this is Russia not the US...Please keep in mind that this is Russia not the USA. Our country doesn't work like your country:-) «Supposed to» means nothing here. Russia is supposed to be a democratic country but it's a form of tyranny. Our policemen are supposed to serve and protect but they kill and rob. Our children are supposed to read War and Peace in school but they don't give a shit about it:-)<br /><br />When we had our final exam we just paid our teacher and got our good marks. That's all. And everyone in every school, high school, college or university do the same thing. This is a system. This is how it works here.<br /><br />So trust me, most of the people in Russia have not read War and Peace.Offenbahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15348042159763418332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7932429135630556215.post-68138511437404467622009-10-05T20:15:40.181-04:002009-10-05T20:15:40.181-04:00Offenbah, as much as I love War and Peace, I have ...Offenbah, as much as I love <i>War and Peace</i>, I have no illusions that everybody read it in high school as they were supposed to!Lisa C. Haydenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10139281544357167953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7932429135630556215.post-35733683659560206232009-10-05T18:57:30.008-04:002009-10-05T18:57:30.008-04:00Master and Margarita is one of the best books whic...Master and Margarita is one of the best books which I have ever read. Heart of a Dog also.<br /><br />But I have never read War and Peace:-) And I suppose most of the people in Russia have not read it too.<br /><br />So this poll is... m-m-m-m... Kind of rubbish:-)Offenbahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15348042159763418332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7932429135630556215.post-1968680991195072052009-09-11T10:43:56.307-04:002009-09-11T10:43:56.307-04:00Ha ha, I'm glad you didn't ask about metho...Ha ha, I'm glad you didn't ask about methodology, Languagehat! My first thought was about how they chose the respondents. I also thought the results were impressive and a little surprising. I guess I was most surprised to see so many Dostoevsky books on the list, even though they were one-percenters. <br /><br />In case you didn't click through to the article... and for those who don't read Russian... A couple things I didn't mention that were in the original article: 22 percent of respondents didn't respond with any book names, and 37 percent of the favorite book votes were "other," evidently meaning that they received fewer than one percent of the overall vote.Lisa C. Haydenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10139281544357167953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7932429135630556215.post-1538510923750134462009-09-11T09:31:44.436-04:002009-09-11T09:31:44.436-04:00The results of that survey are pretty impressive; ...The results of that survey are pretty impressive; I shudder to think what a comparable survey of Americans would reveal.Languagehathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13285708503881129380noreply@blogger.com