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Originally Posted by slayda
Personally, I don't ever know that a novel is "Great" until I'v read it. I learned a long time ago not to take the opinions of others about what was good reading. Most of the required reading that I read in college that was "Great Literature" was (IMHO) junk that I would not have read for pleasure.
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Hear, hear, slayda! Except, I have to add that I always feel so ... bad? ... ignorant? ... uncouth? ... when I don't like "Lit-rah-chure." I feel I am somehow failing the great Literature Guru or something. However, I like [mostly] the popular, current stuff - what I call "brain candy." Hey, reading is for
my pleasure! At least you can't get cavities from it.
And, words are words, whether they come in a fancy leather-bound tome or on an e-ink screen. I just want the story.
I just have the feeling that these kinds of threads are like the age-old chicken/egg/which came first stories. The discussion can (has? will?) go on forever.
Marilyn