Long weekend Humiliation
Jun. 29th, 2007 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It's time for another round of Humiliation, the game that wrecks academic careers.
The Rules:
1. Each player must nominate a book that they have not read. This must be a book that a reasonably well read person would be embarrassed to not have read. Pride and Prejudice, for example, would count. Dianetics would not. This is an explicitly elitist game!
2. I create a poll that gives each player a chance to indicate which of the nominated books they have read. The 'winner' is the person who has not read the most read book.
3. Only two qualities are required to play; honesty and deep seated cultural insecurity.
Nominations will close in 48 hours.
Let Humiliation commence!
The Rules:
1. Each player must nominate a book that they have not read. This must be a book that a reasonably well read person would be embarrassed to not have read. Pride and Prejudice, for example, would count. Dianetics would not. This is an explicitly elitist game!
2. I create a poll that gives each player a chance to indicate which of the nominated books they have read. The 'winner' is the person who has not read the most read book.
3. Only two qualities are required to play; honesty and deep seated cultural insecurity.
Nominations will close in 48 hours.
Let Humiliation commence!
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Date: 2007-06-29 02:45 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-06-29 03:02 pm (UTC)o teh shaem
Date: 2007-06-29 03:04 pm (UTC)The Tin Drum
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Date: 2007-06-29 03:29 pm (UTC)Re: o teh shaem
Date: 2007-06-29 03:33 pm (UTC)Re: o teh shaem
Date: 2007-06-29 04:08 pm (UTC)I nominate Great Expectations.
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Date: 2007-06-29 04:58 pm (UTC)Also, Ulysses by James Joyce. Tried and utterly failed to read this.
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Date: 2007-06-29 05:44 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-06-29 05:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-29 06:04 pm (UTC)However, I have not read any of the following:
Catch-22
Moby Dick
A Clockwork Orange
Anything by Charles Dickens, except A Tale of Two Cities
Anything by George Eliot, Thakeray, D H Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Iris Murdoch or Joseph Conrad
The Catcher in the Rye (at least, I don't think so)
I promise you, though, I am really well and widely read!!
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Date: 2007-06-29 06:49 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-06-29 07:13 pm (UTC)(Did
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Date: 2007-06-29 07:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-29 07:28 pm (UTC)I'm not sure I've read Anna Karenina, come to think of it... probably have read chunks. No, probably I have read that, now I think of it, I can recall too much text not to have done.
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Date: 2007-06-29 07:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-29 08:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-29 10:53 pm (UTC)I also haven't read Ulysses (embarrassing for a person with a comp lit degree). Or more than about 50 pages of Proust (embarrassing for a French specialist).
Or Catch-22, or Huckleberry Finn, or Moby Dick. OK, I'm going to stop this now. I still think 1984 is my most humiliating.
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Date: 2007-06-30 02:22 am (UTC)God knows I've tried and just couldn't.
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