Not a big hit, I take it?

"Did you read that last book of mine, Inspector Jervis at Bay?"

"Well, what with one thing and another, trying to catch up with my Proust and Kafka and all that - "

"Don't apologize. The British Isles are stiff with people who didn't read it. You see them on every side."

(from Cocktail Time, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)