Which Penguin Mug?

[callmemadam]

ramblingfancy's recent post reminded me that I can never make up my mind which Penguin mug I would most like. So here's a poll for you to pick your favourite.

[Poll #1309817]

I really prefer the Pigeon Post one I already have.

Comments

[mimmimmim.livejournal.com]

I voted for three things.

Middlemarch? If I could wipe one book from the face of the planet, Middlemarch would be a strong contender, although that's probably the result of having had it as a set text at university and lectured on it by a strongly feminist lecturer. Literally hours of joyless tedium...

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

That is such a shame. I adore Middlemarch, but I have never had to sit through a single hour of tedious feminist lecture on it. But I really couldn't imagine wanting to read anything by L. P. Hartley...

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

I always confuse L.P. Hartley with J.R. Hartley.

Why did you vote against Middlemarch if you adore it?

Also, I thought you were working...

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

I meant to click Middlemarch and Other, but pressed Submit by mistake.

L. P. Hartley = The Go-Between. I once wrote an essay on the importance of the cricket match in alleviating the otherwise unrelieved tedium of this novel. I didn't get a very good mark for it but there was an enormous sense of satisfaction in saying exactly what I thought.
J. R. Hartley = Fly Fishing

I am. You didn't see me here...

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Middlemarch is my favourite book! So naturally I can never see why other people hate it. :-) I would hate to be lectured on it: it's mine!

[mimmimmim.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I should read it again. Lots of people love it, so I clearly missed something!

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I would like a 39 Steps mug.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Good choice! There's a Christmas trailer on TV at the moment and part of it looks very much as if it might be Rupert Penry-Jones in 39 Steps. Heard anything?

[pinkhebe.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure it is RPJ being all 39 Steps.

Wish he'd do some theatre again. He's the only Cambridge Spy that I have not seen on stage, and for whom I do not have an autograph.

~x~

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Ooh! That sounds lovely festive viewing.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Can't wait. He's too good looking for it, really.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Buchan is proving popular but not up with Dame Agatha yet.

[lethe1]

My boss has the "The Body in the Library" mug, which is very appropriate since we work in a library. Unfortunately I can't choose that one because I don't want to be a copycat, so I'm going for "A Room of One's Own".

It would also be nice to start the day with "Great Expectations", better anyway than with "Bonjour tristesse".

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Heh! The intellectual of the Flist :-).

Very true, ha ha!

[ramblingfancy.livejournal.com]

I like Middlemarch very much, although I would most like a Gaskell mug preferably Cranford I think. Or a Trollope - Can You Forgive Her? I love the Ransome ones too -I am drinking from "We didn't mean to go to Sea" this minute :-) For a smaller mug have you seen the Poole Pottery Quentin Blake ones? They're adorable though not I suppose linked to a specific book. M went through collecting the Bramley Hedge mugs which are quite gorgeous and almost fine china. I of course have managed to chip one so now it's the three seasons. Hey ho!

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

If I had a Cranford mug I'd like one with Brock-style illustrations on it.

The Poole mugs sound nice, I must check them out. Bramley Hedge is cute but we never got into it. Still have a Bunnikins and a Peter Rabbit!

[feather-ghyll.livejournal.com]

I went for my fabourite book of the selection, but reading the comments from the more intellectual, I see I missed a trick. AND I didn't know there was a selection of Ransomes. I regularly drink from 'Swallows and Amazons'.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

My idea *was* to find out people's favourite book on the list!

Three of us with Ransome mugs: Swallows & Amazons for ever!

[lethe1]

In that case I hasten to add that for comfort reading I prefer Murder at the Vicarage and P & P to A Room of One's Own any day! :-)

(And I see nobody has voted for 1984 yet. I thought it was really good. I especially liked the chapter on Newspeak.)

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Me too!

1984 is *so* good that we tend to forget that not everyone saw things as clearly as Orwell did; we think we had these ideas ourselves.

[debodacious.livejournal.com]

I have a Swallows and Amazons mug too! I also can never decide which Penguin mug I prefer, although I have Hotel Splendide at the moment. What I really yearn for is a deckchair.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Join the club!
The deckchairs are spiffing.

[coughingbear]

I have Body in the Library and also Swallows and Amazons, and indeed a Moomin mug, all of which I love dearly, but would really like to have P&P and/or Room of Ones Own as well. Which probably indicates I have as much trouble making my mind up about these things as you do!

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

And the icon to prove it! I've never seen a Moomin mug: don't tempt me.