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Originally posted by Not Bob
What "great book" have you not read that you should have read, or which you pretended to have read, or which people think that you have read?
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My eleventh grade english teacher assigned "Absolom, Absolom" by William Faulker. On the first day that we were to discuss the book, I walked in to the room, threw the book onto the table where it slid the entire length of the table, coming to rest under my english teacher's nose. I at him and said "Fourteen pages without a mark of punctuation. I am not reading this book." He gazed back at me, unmoved, and then steepled his fingers. "As you wish, Miss Brazen," he said, "As you wish."
I did not read "Absolom, Absolom" nor have I ever read anything else but Faulkner. I
want to like Faulkner, but I just can't even make myself try.
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