Books we pretend we've read

Note from mod: Originally posted in Funny Pictures, but it took on a life of its own.

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6/10

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Same as me. Although I can’t really tell what the upper left one is. Or maybe seven…I think the one on the far lower left is Catcher in the Rye.

The secret garden…the top left

Haven’t read it.

Puts me at 6 also

It is meant for adolescent girls, I read my sister’s copy when i was a kid a read everything in the house

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Any good?

My 10 year old self wasnt impressed enougj to remember any details

Did you read and like Little Women?

Never read it

OK, just trying to get a baseline. I remember thinking that one was an OK read as a kid.

My 10 year old self didn’t enjoy Tolstoy, so maybe not a good baseline :wink:

I actually liked Tolstoy as a kid. Dostoyevsky on the other hand… :sweat_smile:

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I’ve read 2 of those and they were both a bit overrated imo.

One’s gotta be The Alchemist…

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I finally got around to that one a few years ago. Completely un memorable

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One of the most pretentious pieces of wishy-washy New Age claptrap I’ve ever read…

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The cow wins a cookie! You know what it read like? The magical realism of ‘100 Years Of Solitude’ and the pretentious faux importance of ‘Tuesdays With Morrie’ were tossed in a blender with the worst kind of YA novella.

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Another one I had to force myself to finish. I kept telling myself, “It’s so famous…the profound part must be coming up soon.”

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