Why I wasn’t a lit major

Book Magazine has issued the results of a readers poll of the 100 best fictional characters since 1900.

I have read …

• 6 – Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902
• 25 – Philip Marlowe, The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler, 1939
• 29 – Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne, 1926
• 35 – Jeeves, My Man Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse, 1919
• 39 – The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss, 1955
• 42 – Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett, 1930
• 59 – Big Brother, 1984, George Orwell, 1949
• 63 – Charlotte, Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White, 1952
• 65 – Nick and Nora Charles, The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett, 1934
• 66 – James Bond, Casino Royale, Ian Fleming, 1953
• 79 – Tarzan, Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914
• 85 – Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling, 1998
• 96 – Eeyore, Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne, 1926

I ought to have read #1, Jay Gatsby, but I managed to Cliff Notes and Fast Talk my way around that one in English class (sorry, Mrs. Zastrow).

I find it interesting that Milne’s book was the only one mentioned twice, I believe, on the list.

Anyway, I suspect you can tell something about me based on the choices. Maybe someone should put together a personality test from that.

(Via WMT)