If you've ever read Changing Places by Lodges, it's very funny. The main character is introduced to a British game where the individuals admit to what they "HAVEN'T" read, but ought to have, given their level of sophistication....
The main character is up for tenure, and admits at a dinner party that he's never read Hamlet, in an effort to win the game.
He loses tenure.
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Nothing so dire in this, just creating in a sense a list of books and maybe by admitting our literary shortcomings, we'll be tempted to go and pick some of these up.
So I guess I'm first: I've never read "A TALE OF TWO CITIES." I've read plenty of Dickens but never this one. I've tried a few times but I often fall asleep and therefore don't remember where I left off and so, it becomes an exercise in futitlity.
Oh, and the person who confesses the most egregious omission from their literary library Wins.
The main character is up for tenure, and admits at a dinner party that he's never read Hamlet, in an effort to win the game.
He loses tenure.
______________________
Nothing so dire in this, just creating in a sense a list of books and maybe by admitting our literary shortcomings, we'll be tempted to go and pick some of these up.
So I guess I'm first: I've never read "A TALE OF TWO CITIES." I've read plenty of Dickens but never this one. I've tried a few times but I often fall asleep and therefore don't remember where I left off and so, it becomes an exercise in futitlity.
Oh, and the person who confesses the most egregious omission from their literary library Wins.
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