[LadyDoc]

ah, but several British polls shows Lord of the Rings was the most influential book of the twentieth century, with Animal farm coming in second..

Two centuries from now, no one will have read propaganda tomes by leftists, but they will still read LOTR and Animal farm..

[brewer1516]

Well, The Hobbit certainly inspired Leonard Nimoy

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4058655659579036137&q=nimoy+the+hobbitt&total=40&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

[Borges]

It’s not so much a question of what’s still read but what holds influence. A lot of people read ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ but that doesn’t give it influence on thought and action.