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Originally Posted by cfrizz
You should read what YOU enjoy reading, not what someone says you should read to be "well read". If you start reading books just because someone else dictates that they are mandatory reading but don't enjoy them, you won't absorb whatever someone else expects you to absorb & you'll be miserable while reading it. Seems self defeating.
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But shared culture is important. I think we need at least minimal exposure to the same literary canon.