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Brits chime in with their least favorite books of all
time. As usual, I have delicious excerpts for you:

JG Ballard: Author

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Joyce’s incomprehensible novel, which has provided a living for
generations of English Literature professors, represents a lamentable
tendency in 20th-century fiction: the quest for total obscurity.
Finnegans Wake is the best example of modernism disappearing up its own
fundament.

Sir John Mortimer: Author and creator of Rumpole

The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

Anything about Gandalf, and those little things with hair between their
toes. I hate that sort of portentous, phoney, medieval-magical way of
writing.

Sir Ian Mckellen: Actor

The Book of Leviticus

It’s full of old legal nonsense that some people still take seriously.