Re: book most read by Americans


"Sam Culotta" <culotta_art@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Johan Larson" <johan0larson8comcast0net> wrote in message
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>> The question is, "What book has been read by a higher portion of American
>> adults than any other?"
>> If we restrict it to books that can plausibly be described as adult
>> reading, I'm guessing it's "Huckleberry Finn" at something like 80% of
>> adults. Of the 20% who haven't read it I would guess another 15% have
>> read something else by Twain.
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> I'm guessing you're restricting this to books authored by
> humans..i.e.you're excluding the bible.
> Whole lot of bible reading goin' on 'round here.

This very quickly gets into definitional issues. Are different translations
of the same original counted together? How much of a large work does one
have to read in order for it to count as read? And so on. I would prefer to
consider the major translations into English to be separate works, and to
demand that a reader have read at least half the words of a book to have it
counted. By that standard I am fairly confident that no edition of the Bible
is a contender.

Johan Larson


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