Bruce Spencer on Nostr: npub15t80e…0sklt npub1nxty7…a055a I took a MA in literature. I am very glad I was ...
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I took a MA in literature. I am very glad I was required to read all of Orwell and Vonnegut's books, Lord of the Flies, Brave New World, Catch-22, The Red Badge of Courage, The Catcher in the Rye, and many others.
I've told many people that life is too short to read books you don't enjoy because there are hundreds out there that you will enjoy. But school is not life, it's learning and you can't knowledgeably discuss a book if you haven't read it.
One might also consider Mark Twain's quote: “The man who does not read has no advantage over. the man who cannot read.”
As to Doc's question: I wasn't always happy about being assigned a book, especially those massive Russian novels like The Brothers Karamazov, but I was almost always happy that I had read them because those writers walk with me now.
I took a MA in literature. I am very glad I was required to read all of Orwell and Vonnegut's books, Lord of the Flies, Brave New World, Catch-22, The Red Badge of Courage, The Catcher in the Rye, and many others.
I've told many people that life is too short to read books you don't enjoy because there are hundreds out there that you will enjoy. But school is not life, it's learning and you can't knowledgeably discuss a book if you haven't read it.
One might also consider Mark Twain's quote: “The man who does not read has no advantage over. the man who cannot read.”
As to Doc's question: I wasn't always happy about being assigned a book, especially those massive Russian novels like The Brothers Karamazov, but I was almost always happy that I had read them because those writers walk with me now.