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user-inactivated  ·  4282 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Does anybody have any good book recommendations?

So many. But I'm of the school of thought that says you should knock out these (and all of Shakespeare) and then move onto general recommendations.





user-inactivated  ·  4281 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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user-inactivated  ·  4281 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Those novels form the basis of all English-speaking literary culture, more or less. Almost any book you pick up that isn't on that list references or draws from a book on that list.

teenagewangst  ·  4282 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think I skimmed every book assigned to me in high school, which covers a few from the board's list. I didn't take any english classes in college, but I did manage to read some major books during those years somehow.

I'll have to give it another look, though I have to say I'm not one to slog through anything.

user-inactivated  ·  4282 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I think I skimmed every book assigned to me in high school, which covers a few from the board's list.

No it most certainly does not! You don't skim Nabokov, Dickens and Conrad.

teenagewangst  ·  4281 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Haha - I don't mean that it counts - I mean that a few of the books I was supposed to read were on this list, but never actually read.