Okay so you all know what an Harry Potter fan I am, so I realize that perhaps I am not the "average" reader, but I have to say that this article surprised me: http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/latest/200703111756/best-sellers_go_unread.

Apparently, more people who picked up Ulysses by James Joyce make it all the way through than people who picked up HP Goblet of Fire!!! Granted the people who decide to pick up Ulysses in the first place is a self-selecting group, but still!! Maybe it's actually kind of an encouraging thing to think that a larger percentage of the self-selecting group of Ulysses readers make it to the end as opposed to HP readers....