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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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For me the joy of reading is reading a well written book with a well thought plot and good wording. This is what classics will give you. There is a reason to books being read over centuries by generations. The reason is: Because they are good!