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Originally Posted by Catlady
I don't necessarily like classics, but I like to say I've read them. Hence the need for some element of compulsion.
I certainly didn't like The Three Musketeers or The Old Man and the Sea, but I do like feeling smug about having read them, as I expect I will about The Scarlet Pimpernel, as soon as I get to it.
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I relate to the smug thing. I finally forced myself to read
Moby Dick back in 2010, and crowed about it here on MR. That is, I crowed about finishing it, definitely not about the book itself. Wow, that was hard work. The only positive was finding context for the half-dozen good lines that get pulled out for movies when they want to prove the character is well read.