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Originally Posted by Jorgen
I am encountering more and more people who haven't read what I consider to be "classics".
I know what you mean: Hyperion, Dune, William Gibson's and Len Deighton's books ...
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Depending on the group that I am talking to, yes, those are classics.
But I'm talking about books like Animal Farm, 1984, Three Musketeers, and more.
I recently made a (really bad) joke at work with the punch line of "Double-plus good" and only 1/4 of the people "got it". The rest had never heard of the book 1984.