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Same here - and the more if I'm allowed to use "well read" in it's true sense and don't have to reduce it to the classics.
What I don't get is the snobbishness about reading the classics, their preference over "younger" works, the equation reading the classics=being intelligent that was made in one of the posts here.
I love reading the classics, I read a lot of them, so I don't feel addressed personally, but after finishing one of the old books I would never ever assume myself being smarter than anyone who has read a good contemporary book at the same time. In the best case, we both have learnt something about life and the human nature or we have been well entertained.
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