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A lot of them I've at least heard of though my reading tastes haven't led me to read them in the past. |
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02-06-2013, 02:25 PM | #33 |
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Your resultsYou might be well read, but not according to these standards It's certainly possible to be a well-read person without having cracked a single one of these books, and to be fair, these novels might not have placed on your tenth-grade reading list back in the day.
You're sort of well read You could probably hold your own in a literary conversation, but perhaps not with today's 15-year-olds. Read: 14 Partly Read: 1 Heard Of: 9 No Clue: 13 |
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I took the quiz and received a "you're pretty well read". Some of the books I hadn't heard of..
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02-06-2013, 02:49 PM | #36 |
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02-06-2013, 03:23 PM | #37 |
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I am not as well read as a 10th grader, mostly because I have very different tastes in books. Actually, that's not true. I once said, "sometimes, just sometimes, grass is green," to a group of grade 10 students and they practically fell over laughing. They got the Great Gatsby reference immediately and we had an interesting discussion about symbolism in literature thereafter. (A discussion, incidentally, that would have been banned from a grade 10 English class for being so blasphemous.)
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02-06-2013, 04:02 PM | #39 |
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I went through all 37 pages (goes pretty fast) only to find out that I'm 'sort of' well-read
Considering how many I'd never heard of, I expected a big old... "You're just plain dumb!!!" |
02-06-2013, 04:04 PM | #40 |
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How compulsory is this list? Has every 10th grader nowadays to read this list or does it only apply to special courses for (English) literature or language?
(I am a little bit ashamed when I'm thinking back of my list or compare it to the books my daughter had to read.) |
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I agree. In the last conversation I had with someone around that age the books they were reading in school were pretty much the same ones I had read years ago.
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02-06-2013, 04:31 PM | #43 |
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Since many here aren't as well-read as a 10th grader, how many are smarter than a 5th grader?
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02-06-2013, 05:01 PM | #44 |
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I have read 16 books on the list. I found it a bit of an odd list for a 10th grade curriculum, to be honest.
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