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"Great Books" unread poll
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Originally posted by Not Bob
Which leads me to a poll that I was planning to do tomorrow, a poll borrowed from a game played by English professors in the books of David Lodge. What "great book" have you not read that you should have read, or which you pretended to have read, or which people think that you have read?
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I'm going to win this one. I've never read Hamlet. My middle school assumed I'd read it in high school, my high school assumed I'd covered it in middle school, and I never took an english lit or Shakespeare class in college. On top of never having seen Hamlet, I've never seen it performed on stage or in the movies. This is deliberate, as I think I should read it before I see it. But for whatever reason, I never get around to reading it.
I don't think I've faked having read Hamlet, but I think people generally assume that Hamlet is something that was read at some point along a 20 plus year education.
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