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PEOPLE & ARTS Wednesday 24 OctOber 2018
Rowling, Tolkien, Austen novels vie for bragging rights

By LYNN ELBER There's something wonder-
Associated Press ful about sitting down with
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The your friends and talking
results are in for an impas- about a book," Vieira said.
sioned national election "And ultimately with these
that put the popularity of novels you learn something
candidates Jane Austen, more about yourself. They
J.R.R. Tolkien and J.K. Rowl- force you to question who
ing on the line. you are, your values as an
The effort to discover individual, your values as a
America's best-loved nov- society."
el — and promote read- About a fifth of the 100
ing — ends with the winner books were provocative
announced on Tuesday's enough that they've been
8 p.m. EDT finale (check censored in some man-
local listings) of PBS' "The ner, said series executive
Great American Read." The producer Jane Root, who
series profiled the contend- called that number "as-
ers and let bookworms, fa- tounding."
mous and not, advocate "We were expecting it to
for their pick. be two or three. But a huge
More than 4 million votes number of books, I think be-
were cast over six months, cause of their potency and
PBS said, with Austen's This combination photo shows J.R.R. Tolkien, author of "The Lord of the Rings," series in 1967, left, the power of the relation-
"Pride and Prejudice," Tolk- and J. K. Rowling, author of the "Harry Potter" series at the "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" ship that you have with a
ien's "Lord of the Rings" se- Broadway opening in New York on April 22, 2018. really great book, they up-
ries and Rowling's "Harry Associated Press set people," she said. "They
Potter" saga making the disturbed the waters. They
top 10 on an alphabetical- series by Diana Gabaldon; touch about 15 years ago didn't spill the beans in a re- make people fearful."
order list that was released and "To Kill a Mockingbird" as a Chicago State Univer- cent interview. But she was Some popular books simply
as voting wrapped last by Harper Lee. sity student, was among glad to tout the initiative's have a whiz-bang story to
week. "Harry Potter" was among its vocal boosters on "The ripple effect, including a tell, with top 100 titles "Fifty
The other front-runners the multivolume series that Great American Read" and nearly 50,000-member on- Shades of Grey" and "The
were "Charlotte's Web" by counted as a single entry. beyond. line book club and more Da Vinci Code" making the
E.B. White; "The Chronicles Given its hold on the mod- "Listen, me and 'Harry Pot- than 5 million views for se- point.
of Narnia" series by C.S. ern imagination on the ter' are going to take this ries-related video content The list was based on an
Lewis; "Gone with the Wind" page, screen and stage, it thing to the end. I want to across PBS platforms, Face- initial survey of about 7,000
by Margaret Mitchell; "Jane might be the obvious win- be victorious," Yisrael told book and YouTube. Americans, with an advi-
Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte; ner. a TV critics' gathering last "We forget the power of a sory panel of experts orga-
"Little Women" by Louisa Eliyannah Yisrael, who dis- summer. book, not just on individuals nizing the 100-contender
May Alcott; the "Outlander" covered Rowling's magic Series host Meredith Vieira but on groups of people. list.q

Ty Segall's 'Fudge Sandwich' is full of fun covers

By PABLO GORONDI though not reverential the "newest" song on the al-
Associated Press take on the Spencer Da- bum, the London band's di-
Ty Segall, "Fudge Sand- vis Group's "I'm a Man." On atribe against Johnny Rot-
wich" (In the Red) John Lennon's "Isolation," ten and Joe Strummer and
Some people make playl- one of his soul-baring "us vs. a warning to fans that "rock
ists of their favorite songs, them" songs, Segall substi- stars deal in money not
some folks' closets are full tutes rancid-sounding gui- truth," while Segall turns The
of mixtapes and some still tars for the original's piano Dils' frantic "Class War" into
make compilations on parts and makes full use passionate power-pop.
CD for themselves or their of his vocal similarities with Segall says "Fudge Sand-
friends. But not the pro- the Liverpudlian. That same wich" was made just for
lific Ty Segall, who takes a Lennon-like vocal, added fun and that's exactly what
much more hands-on ap- to even more distorted gui- you'll have listening to it.q
proach and has used his tars, makes Funkadelic's "Hit
music collection as inspira- It and Quit It" even more
tion to record "Fudge Sand- agonizing.
wich," gathering a handful Segall's guitar tones get
of tracks from the late '60s much praise and there's a
to early '70s that have influ- whole catalog of them on
enced him over the years. hand, but it's his drumming
It all starts with a menacing that really stands out here,
version of "Low Rider," War's expertly shifting from rock
hot-rod anthem, sound- to prog to punk and back
ing straight out of a post- again. This cover image released by In The Red shows "Fudge
Sandwich," a release by Ty Segall.
apocalyptic car movie, Rudimentary Peni's "Rotten Associated Press
followed by an accurate to the Core" from 1983 is