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The Trick of Re-Reading/I Read it in High School
By Brian Carr
Writers are always Facebook posting about books they’re currently re-reading. I don’t buy it for a second. Nothing can shame you like a gape in reading history. This is always downplayed. “Sure I’ve read that [classic/important title name goes here], it’s just that it was a long time ago.” Course you did. Funny thing is, I see far less Facebook updates about old books being read for the first time. Everyone re-reads everything. They’re soooooooooooooooooooooo excited to be doing so. Can we quit being posers? Just admit you’ve never read the damn book. You didn’t read it in high school. You didn’t read it in college. It’s okay. It doesn’t make you less cool/able to be a great writer/intelligent/reliable as a source of literary validity to your peers. Some books you haven’t gotten to. Let it die with that. Quit re-reading books for the first time. It’s as bad as when you lost your virginity again.
Agreed! If you’re so excited to be doing so, why did you wait 10 years to pick up the book “again”?
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Leslie said:I couldn’t agree more. I think it’s sad how we have come to rely on communicating poorly via such sites as Face Book, Twitter, My space, and so on. People get out of your damn houses and live in the real world again. Actually read the book instead of sharing that you are going to “re-read” a book that you never actually read from the beginning.
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