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Subject: Would You Rather Game: Classic Lit Edition
Date Posted: 1/13/2015 9:35 PM ET
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Would you rather read:  more...
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I have read both, and I prefer more...
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I am oriented towar more...
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I've read Moby Dick and advis more...
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Matt B., Did you come at C & P from a 20th century American stance?    Don't you think a reader has a kind more...
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Tome:  Lemme make you a deal.   You don't have to read more...
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Tome, I just finished Crime and Punishment last year.  It took me 40 years to finish, but I had kept the Garnett translation in a 60 cent Dell paperback I bo more...
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I plowed through Crime an more...
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Good luck, Tome.  more...
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"like The Idiot" ???   That strikes me as the wrong word to use, about that book about more...
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The only way I can see for Laura to more...
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ah, Tess. That was the first book by more...
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Charles, I have Far from the Madde more...
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Far From the Madding Crowd is pretty good. I enjoyed it. If you have an more...
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I don't think Bathsheba Everdene was  "the weake more...
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Re "willful innocence" Reading Ben Jonson's Volpone for more...
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Matt B.,  That's interesting....... that feeling o more...
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Matt B.  :  Poor Celia!   Back when she lived, great beauty was a real curse for a woman.  Thinking about more...