Makes me come out in a rash... Tolkien's Lord of the Rings

This one comes courtesy of Scott Pack on his blog, Me and My Big Mouth, but it has been enthusiastically taken up by Susan Hill, Dove Grey Reader, Struggling Author, The Book Bar and, for all I know, many other book bloggers, too.

It's a bit like Guilty Pleasures (which Scott also discusses on his blog), but in this game you nominate five things you've never done, culturally speaking and probably never intend to do either.... it makes, I think, a good parlour game to play at Christmas, though prepare to get very annoyed with anyone who doesn't see the cultural universe in the same way that you do.

Struggling Author, which is one of my favourite blogs, doesn't like The Sopranos...whaaaaat??? I know, I know... hard to believe. I can promise hours of innocent fun while you sneer at other people's bad taste.

To start the ball rolling over here, I give you my five confessions:

1. I'm allergic to Tolkein.

2. I don't like James Bond movies.

3. I hated Life is Beautiful.

4. I love books by Joanna Trollope but have never read any by Anthony Trollope.

5. I think a lot of modern poetry is prose cut up into lines.

There you go, Bookblog readers...over to you!