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I'm not sure I'd use the word "obsolete" but I've always felt that "well read" meant something like "read a lot of the stuff I like". It's not a term that I've ever considered very meaningful. However, "obsolete" implies it was once meaningful and I'm not sure it ever was.
I read a lot of westerns and mysteries and I also read a lot of classics and best-sellers, especially those of earlier times. But well read? I don't think so. There's too much good stuff I haven't read and much that I won't read because I'm just not interested. A couple of examples are Joyce and Faulkner. No thanks. But I've read a lot of Shakespeare, Steinbeck, Pearl S Buck, etc. Maybe I'm half well read. Really though I don't think the term means anything very useful.
Barry
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