{"id":28055,"date":"2007-11-17T12:05:44","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T17:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/11\/17\/28055-bulgarians-name-lord-of-the-rings-top-book-of-all-times\/"},"modified":"2007-11-17T12:05:44","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T17:05:44","slug":"bulgarians-name-lord-of-the-rings-top-book-of-all-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/11\/17\/28055-bulgarians-name-lord-of-the-rings-top-book-of-all-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgarians Name Lord of the Rings Top Book of All Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Bulgarian readers placed The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer&#8217;s Stone by J.K.Rowling at the top three spots in a survey of the fifteen books of all times. A total of 28,000 readers voted for their favorite book in the poll carried out by Helicon bookstores, abandoning renowned literature classics at the bottom of the ranking.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The top three favorites are followed by John Steinbeck&#8217;s East of Eden, Exupery&#8217;s The Little Prince and Dan Braun&#8217;s contemporary bestseller The Da Vinci Code.<\/p>\n<p>The taste of Bulgarian readers is obviously following global trends as a similar poll in Britain in 2006 placed Harry Potter and the Sorcerer&#8217;s Stone and The Da Vinci Code in the top three places, critics commented.<\/p>\n<p>A major difference is that the British readers voted only for books published for the first time during the past 25 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bulgarian readers placed The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, and Harry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,35,38,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fotr-book","category-lotr-books","category-rotk-book","category-ttt-book"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7iv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}