Sad as it is, I read that, cover to cover as night time reading for my son when he was about 6 - took a year! I also read him the Potter books and the Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman....bit of personal indulgence, but he loved bedtime as I put all the voices on and we had great fun - probably why he hates the whole idea of reading a book now he's 16 though!!
Wife now says it was the best of times and the worst of times, but I’m not allowed to change my mind...
We have a winner, Don Quixote by Cervantes, who spent a portion of his life as a slave of the Barbary pirates. Published between 1605 and 1615, widely regarded as the first modern novel and an instant hit. It’s ****ing long, hugely obscure and after reading it while travelling in my twenties I don’t remember anything about it apart from the bits everyone knows about the windmills. Allegedly the only book that has been translated into more languages is the Bible. 400 million copies sold (though how they calculate that is beyond me), next highest David Copperfield at 200 million. The whole series of Potter books has sold 450 million. Don’t bother.
I read my boy the first chapter of the first Potter when he was about five. I disliked it so much that it was abandoned and I told him he’d have to wait for the film.
Billy Wells is famous for two things. He was the first to do something, but he is far more famous for what he became the second man to do. Name both I got as far with Don Quixote as you got with Harry Potter Stam
I know that he was a heavyweight boxer but don't know what he was the first to do. The second part of the question was the million pound question on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, and the question was ... ' Which boxer was famous for striking the gong in the introduction to J Arthur Rank films? '
