Why do people lie that they know certain books and have read them, if it is not true at all?
More and more people book reading replaces with watching movies, based on bestselling books. This is understandable, as a film usually lasts approx 2 hours, but a novel of a thousand pages takes much more time. And many people take this fact they are ashamed, so they won't even dream of admitting that they haven't read certain books. Why is that?
The researchers, according to the results of the magazine's survey Ella, in which it participated 2000 people, managed to find out whose books many people have not read, although they don't want to admit it to anyone. They found themselves on the list the classics, which gained worldwide fame.
40 % the people replied that he relied on lies so that they would not be excluded from the conversation, while less than a third emphasize that they do so in order to act more intelligently.
MOST PEOPLE LIE ABOUT READING THESE BOOKS: ARE YOU ONE OF THEM?.
- Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
- 1984 - George Orwell
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - JRR Tolkien
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- Anna Karenina - Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
- Great Expectation - Charles Dickens
- The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
- The Great Gatsby - Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
- Hook 22 – Joseph Heller
- The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
- Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- 50 Shades of Gray - EL James
- And then there was no one else - Agatha Christie
- The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
- Harry Potter - JK Rowling
