Posted on 09/13/2009 12:04:50 PM PDT by trueamerica
THE literary works of Katie Price, Barack Obama and Dawn French are the most readily discarded reads in UK hotel rooms in 2009 a new report reveals today.
Topping this year’s Travelodge’s “books left behind index” is Jordan’s third autobiography, Pushed to the Limit, In which she reveals the tough times she has faced in the last couple of years concerning marriage, children and turning from glamour model to businesswoman.
In second place is Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama’s moving account of his journey towards understanding both his father's life and his own cultural inheritance.
British actress, writer, comedienne and wife of Lenny Henry, Dawn French, has made third place with her memoirs, Dear Fatty. Written in a letter style to family members, school and professional friends, the book chronicles the extraordinary rise of Dawn from her early years as an RAF child and her flat-sharing antics with Jennifer Saunders, to her outspoken views on sizism and her marriage.
Listed below are the rest of the top 10 reads left behind in Travelodge hotels over the last 12 months:
1. Pushed to the Limit - Jordan (Katie Price)
2. Dreams from My Father - Barack Obama
3. Dear Fatty - Dawn French
4. The Tales of Beadle the Bard - J.K. Rowling
5. Sex And The City - Candace Bushnell
6. A Sense of Urgency - John.P.Kottler
7. The Appeal - John Grisham
8. At my Mother’s Knee and her Other Low Joints - Paul O Grady
9. The Magic and the Madness - Michael Jackson
10. Confessions of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
Greg Dawson, Travelodge spokesman, said: “Over 7,200 books have been left behind in our hotels over the last 12 months.
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Hmmmmmm...no conservative books on the “left behind” book list...are we better at recycling, or do we just like to hold on to the elusive printed truth when we find it...
I usually leave my books in airplanes when I travel. Even if I finish reading them in the motel rooms. I also write my email address on the inside of the front cover along with a short note asking whoever gets it to write me a short email with what they thought of the book.
I have three people that I started trading books with as a result.
Here's one of the one star reviews at Amazon:
D o you really need to read another biography by a woman whose only claim to fame is having a couple of silicon sacks sewed onto her by a plastic surgeon? Tasteless, dumb and false, who cares how she might not be able to cope with enjoying herself or doing the things that any other normal person might not be paid to write a book about.
I wonder if these hotels could lower their prices if they weren’t counting these left over books. Or is this a government funded project?
I don't get it.
Somebody keeps track of that? How?
That’s a good idea!
I suspect the father he writes about in the book is not the father that is on his birth certificate and that is why he keeps it hidden.
That or he was born in Kenya, or both.
Yes, I think it means that these books are snoozers. I’ve noticed myself every time I go into two local libraries that the books by and about Obama never get checked out. I’d bet they are about as interesting to read as voter registrations fabricated by ACORN.
now that is a curious habit.......I take my books in big bags to a few friends who are avid readers.......or I ship them to the west coast for my son to read. I do not leave them behind.......I love books!
I hope they left Obammy’s book in an appropriate place, like the toilet. Not the bathroom, the toilet bowl. Don’t bother to flush.
The list is for books left behind in UK hotels.
“conservative books” would probably be illegal there as “extreme right wing”....:^)
Most often found in the "reading room" probably.
The Obama book wasn’t left behind..it was thrown away.
Hmmm. You might like “paperbackswap.com” then as well, mate. I have used them quite extensively, and am quite pleased with the results.
See My #19 post...
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