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In reply to the discussion: Are you as well-read as a 10th grader? Take our quiz. [View all]LWolf
(46,179 posts)90. I'm pretty well read.
My results:
"You're pretty well read
You like to throw around words like 'Bildungsroman,' 'synecdoche,' and 'anagnorisis.' Please stop."
Not that I think that particular list is necessarily a valid measure of being well read.
Or that one must read "the complete works" to have read and appreciated (or not) Emily Dickinson, for example.
Personally, I think that most of the nation should be better read than they are, and I don't think there is a single list of titles that makes someone "well read."
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I loved this book, both from a historical and an ecological prospective. N/T
Big Blue Marble
Jan 2013
#85
That was me, too. I've read all the older stuff but not the newer non-fiction.
Shrike47
Jan 2013
#26
I suspect that many of those books were written after I left high school and college
wryter2000
Jan 2013
#68
Banning "To Kill a Mockingbird" because it contains the "n" word is the absolute dumbest,
Nye Bevan
Jan 2013
#45
Yeah, where's Hawthorne, & Dostoevski, & Dylan Thomas, & Yukio Mishima, & Stephen Crane & ...
patrice
Jan 2013
#42
I mean, I can see them skipping Mark Twain, though he IS Great, because everyone reads Twain.
patrice
Jan 2013
#66
No Walt Whitman, no Philip Roth, No Silivia Plath, No John Updike, No Leo Tolstoy?
Drahthaardogs
Jan 2013
#93