As the Booker longlist does the rounds, and 50 Shades of Grey and its grubby offspring take the place of Haribo at supermarket checkouts, there's never been a better time to have an opinion on books I haven't read. Bad books, good books, disappointments and classics – I could name a dozen in each of these categories that I've never got round to picking up, but about which I have formed a kind of aggregate opinion based on a complicated algorithm of prejudice and past reading.
A fun article in the Guardian which rings bells with me....
