I've read many classics, especially English and French nineteenth century, but there always seems to be some key book I haven't got to. This all started with having to admit I hadn't read Don Quixote.
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megan walker - Dec 02, 2009 9:37:50 am PST #10453 of 28370
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Polter-Cow - Dec 02, 2009 9:39:49 am PST #10454 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I think we may have read part of it in high school, but I don't think I've read it all.
sj - Dec 02, 2009 9:40:28 am PST #10455 of 28370
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
This all started with having to admit I hadn't read Don Quixote.
I have only read parts of it, which is something I have to say about a lot of classics thanks to a couple classes from high school and college that only required us to read parts of certain classics.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 02, 2009 9:40:53 am PST #10456 of 28370
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I read parts of Don Quixote for a Spanish class, but I'm so bad with foreign languages I really couldn't appreciate it as literature.
megan walker - Dec 02, 2009 9:45:01 am PST #10457 of 28370
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Considering I only took the two standard Freshman English classes in college, one of which was "Poetry/Drama" (that chose not to do drama), and the other was "Short Story/Novel" (that chose not to do novels), it's a wonder I've read anything.
Kat - Dec 02, 2009 12:28:01 pm PST #10458 of 28370
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I was supposed to have read Don Quixote for a grad class. I read enough to write a beautiful and cogent paper on it. But it was PAINFUL to get through. It was the equivalent of watch from the hall for me because the "comedy" portions were all cruel and tragic to Don Quixote himself.
I did like the bit about him going mad from too many romances, though. This is the result of reading too much Sir Gawain!
Amy - Dec 02, 2009 12:33:25 pm PST #10459 of 28370
Because books.
Yeah, I read only bits of Don Quixote for a college class, and skimmed the rest. I wrote a decent paper on it, too, that was about 99% pure bullshitting.
Calli - Dec 02, 2009 1:14:53 pm PST #10460 of 28370
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I wrote a decent paper on it, too, that was about 99% pure bullshitting.
I did the same thing with Finnegan's Wake.
Gudanov - Dec 02, 2009 1:21:34 pm PST #10461 of 28370
Coding and Sleeping
Bullshitting is an important life skill.
§ ita § - Dec 02, 2009 1:39:40 pm PST #10462 of 28370
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I had the sheer luck to have been asked about two formative events in Philip Pirrip's life, so despite having read only the first nine or so chapters of Great Expectations I was able to write an essay which contributed to me getting an A on the English Lit O' Level. But the panic I had going into that exam knowing how crappily I was prepared has been the fodder of just about every academic anxiety dream I've had since then.