How well read are you?
Author and book please for one point each:
1. Amergo Bonasera sat in New York Criminal Court Number 3 and waited for justice; vengeance on the men who had co cruelly hurt his daughter, who had tried to dishonor her.
2. Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. If superior creatures from space ever visit earth, the first question they will ask, in order to assess the level of our civilization, is: “Have they discovered evolution yet?”
3. At the beginning of July, during a spell of exceptionally hot weather, towards evening, a certain young man came down on to the street from the little room he rented from some tenants in S— Lane and slowly, almost hesitantly, set off towards K—n Bridge.
4. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
5. I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho’ not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull …
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Some interesting books there. Of course, I know them all. Isn’t Google wonderful.
I only know one! (4)
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Peter – naughty.
Yes, I was made to read it too, Liz.
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It depends on how you define well read
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Books which have traditionally been considered classics, e.g. Salinger, Dickens, Defoe, Kafka [the popular bits, Joyce [the oft-quoted bits] and so on.
The ones above would have been on most reading lists for late school and university if you took Lit at some stage. They include no feminist tomes.
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My school reading list included classics but not those included on your list, it also included reading from the war years such as poems from the ‘war poets’.
http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/
And some contemporary reading for the time I was at school. Coming of age boy stories are the ones that spring to mind.
My school years didn’t include any feminist tomes, whatever they are… I obviously haven’t been drawn to read them since, because I still don’t know what they are…
In conclusion I am still not sure what defines being well read…
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My school years didn’t include any feminist tomes
And that’s why you’re rational until it comes to women in politics, Cherie. You had a proper education, something the children of today is being denied, having their heads stuffed with things which don’t matter in the long run.
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I don’t talk or even think about women in politics so I am not sure why you chose to squeeze that comment into your sentence.
You must be mixing me up with someone else.
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