Though I'm not convinced that that's what has happened here, it is certainly possible. Whatever the case I'm sure he is getting all the love and care he needs, so I am in two minds about my original criticism... which happens all too often :o)
The chart specifically says 'over the last 50 years', so I stand by every point I've made.
If you think that LOTR established the pattern for long stories over multiple volumes, you may not have heard of Homer, who pre-dates Tolkien (and much of the Bible) by a significant margin.
Kangaroo: "I look sad because someone decided that my poo and wee should be held snuggly against my body until someone notices. But at least their beige carpet will stay clean." Yes it's a cute baby animal, but you wouldn't do this to a puppy so why do it to a kangaroo?
While you could certainly say it about LOTR, the Harry Potter novels were never 'divided for the purposes of sales', they were written and published separately over a long period of time: 1997 to 2007. You seem to infer that the Bible is also a collection of books, but some of those 'books' contain only a handful of pages and some don't even break 1000 words. By any common standard they are no more than 'chapters' or 'sections' rather than standalone volumes. You could divide the thing into two (Old/New Testaments) but any other sub-division makes little sense. If you find a publisher which sells copies of each of the 66 'books' in the Bible separately, you'll also find a publisher with plenty of copies of 'Philemon', 'Obadiah' and 'Nahum' left unsold.
This is not going to fly in the long term - if the theatres are allowed to get away with it, so will everyone else, using similar avoidance schemes. It's a fun idea but I fear it won't last. Great publicity for their message though.
I shaved off a year's growth when I realised that it had somehow turned me into a ginger tramp without me noticing (the hair on my head is blonde, so what turned my facial hair ginger is anyone's guess). When it started to grow back again, the ginger was thankfully no more... but any new growth is increasingly grey, bordering on white. Father Christmas duties are the only future I have to look forward to :o>
This is not 'most read' it is 'most sold'. I'd be interested to see figures showing which books have been read in their entirety - the list would be very different. How many people have actually read the whole Bible, cover to cover, for example?
As CamilleR says, I'm also not sure that an entry for 'Harry Potter' counts as 'a book', rather it's a series of books, as is LOTR, Twilight, etc.
Give it 10 more years and '50 Shades of Grey' will have edged out Anne Frank, mark my words. All hope it lost!
I can see this working in a single end-to-end tunnel, but subways are vast networks of tunnels with hundreds of access points - passenger entrances, ventilation shafts, maintenance ducts, etc. Failing to plug any one of them would allow water to enter the system. If there's a way in, water will find it.
I am left with one word from the linked article burned forever into my brain. Please, you cannot call it THAT! Note that it's ten times worse if you're British :o)
True love, eh? Not. And now the whole world will be able to remind the child, for the rest of her life, why her parents divorced. The ex-husband is an idiot.
If you think that LOTR established the pattern for long stories over multiple volumes, you may not have heard of Homer, who pre-dates Tolkien (and much of the Bible) by a significant margin.
Yes it's a cute baby animal, but you wouldn't do this to a puppy so why do it to a kangaroo?
As CamilleR says, I'm also not sure that an entry for 'Harry Potter' counts as 'a book', rather it's a series of books, as is LOTR, Twilight, etc.
Give it 10 more years and '50 Shades of Grey' will have edged out Anne Frank, mark my words. All hope it lost!