また、Sky Newsの英国人2000名を対象にした調査では、本を書くについて次のような結果が出ている:
Books we pretend we have read: 読んだふりをする本:
1. 1984 - George Orwell 42%
2. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 31%
3. Ulysses - James Joyce 25%
4. The Bible 24%
5. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 16%
6. A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking 15%
7. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie 14%
8. In Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust 9%
9. Dreams from My Father - Barack Obama 6%
10. The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins 6%
Authors we actually like reading: 実際に読んでいる本:
1. J K Rowling 61%
2. John Grisham 32%
3. Sophie Kinsella 22%
4. Jilly Cooper 20%
5. Mills & Boon 18%
6. Dick Francis 17%
7. Robert Harris 16%
8. Jeffrey Archer 15%
9. Frederick Forsyth 13%
10. James Herbert 12%
[Stephen Adams: "Two-thirds lie about reading a book " (2009/03/05) on Telegraph]
And it reveals we are a nation of wannabe authors - with 56% admitting they would like to write a book and one in ten claiming they already had.英国人が読んだふりをした本のうちKumicitが読んだのは、"The Selfish Gene"(英語)と"1984"(日本語訳&英語)で、聖書を通しで読んだことはない。
56%の人々が本を書きたいと回答し、10人に1人が既に書いたことがあると主張した。
[Bookworms At Heart: Teens Would Rather Read (2009/03/05) on Skey News]
Of those who would like to write a book, most women would like to write a crime thriller or mystery novel, while more men plumped for science fiction and fantasy. Staying firmly in the realms of fantasy, a third of all people questioned stated that money would inspire them to become an author and close to half (47%) would consider writing a book as a way of earning more money. Forty-one per cent of men said that money would provide the inspiration for them to become an author, rather than having a good story to tell. It may be entirely coincidental that 16% of men, compared to 9% of women, have a finished book languishing unpublished.
本を書きたいと回答した人々のうち、女性の大半は犯罪スリラーやミステリーを書きたいと解答し、SFやファンタジーを書きたいと解答したのは男性のほうが多かった。回答者の1/3が作家になりたい理由をお金と回答し、半分近く(47%)の男性が収入を増やす手段だと回答した。41%の男性は、良いストーリーを読ませるより、お金をかせぐことが作家になりたい理由だと回答した。男性の16%と女性の9%が、本を書いたが出版されないままだと回答したのは、まったくの偶然かもしれない。
[Michelle Pauli: "Statistics reveal damned lies of British readers" (2009/03/05) on Guardian]
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