Saturday Book Discussion: I can't believe you haven't read that!
I have mentioned a time or two (y'all are really going to have to forgive me if I repeat myself in these SBDs, 'cause there've been enough of them now that I am sure to start recycling material) that it was only a few years ago that I started reading more widely and heavily, after many years spent mostly confined to the SF&F ghetto. So there are a lot of books I have not read that "everyone" has, at least in high school. Of course there are enough books that "everyone" reads in high school that not everyone actually does read all of them. I read Great Expectations, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Romeo and Juliet, and A Separate Peace in high school; others got Hamlet, Jane Eyre, The Scarlet Letter, and The Great Gatsby. Etc.
So anyway, books1001 has gotten me reading a few of those books I missed (and a lot of others I'd never even heard of), and I know I am not going to read all 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die before I die, but there are certainly some big classics that everyone else has read that I haven't that are on my bucket list.
And speaking of bucket lists, yes, this topic is really just revisiting one I wrote a year ago. Which I only realized after finishing most of this post, and damned if I'm going to write a new one. So hey, recycling, folks!
So, re: the above linked post, I still have not read any of those.
Also, three more books I have added to my "I haven't read these and everyone else has so I need to get to them sooner or later": The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Catcher in the Rye.
So anyway, in the spirit of recyclingcommiseration, share those Big Books that you think everyone else has read but you haven't.
And take the quiz below. These choices are completely arbitrary and not comprehensive, because I could make it 1001 books long and still not be exhaustive. I chose 45. Let's see how many of "everyone" really have read these.
Poll Have you read these books?
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