nope. it argues for my not having read a lot of works that used be thought of as really important. ________________________________________ From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Roberto Hoyle [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 1:03 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] how 'great' are the great books On Nov 4, 2010, at 11:24 AM, McAulay, Elizabeth wrote: > i agree with keith's comments about having a 'what have you read?' portion first. I had to answer "i don't know" to most of the questions because if I hadn't read both of the works, i didn't want to choose one over the other. i have a master's in English and i think only one out of 20 comparisons i answered included two works i had read. If you haven't read one of the books, doesn't that argue for it's lack of 'greatness?' r.