Don't Read These Books!

a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PddQ8xLinAc/Slv4atzItFI/AAAAAAAAG-U/Mi8kRgknm0w/s1600-h/canon-collage.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 170px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PddQ8xLinAc/Slv4atzItFI/AAAAAAAAG-U/Mi8kRgknm0w/s200/canon-collage.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358149319541699666" border="0" //aI've tossed you plenty of lists of must a href="http://ow.ly/h8vu" /aread books. Now how about a list of classics you needn't waste your time with?br /br /In an attempt to save readers valuable reading time when there is so much great stuff out there, span style="font-style: italic;"The Second Pass/span a href="http://ow.ly/h8vu"lists ten books/a :br /span style="font-style: italic;"/spanblockquotespan style="font-style: italic;"... that will be pressed into your hands by ardent fans. ... Resist them!/span/blockquoteis the advice. The books span style="font-weight: bold;"not/span to read are :br /ullispan style="font-style: italic;"White Noise/span by Don DeLillo/lilispan style="font-style: italic;"Absalom, Absalom/span by William Faulkner/lilispan style="font-style: italic;"One Hundred Years of Solitude/span by Gabriel García Márquez/lilispan style="font-style: italic;"The Road/span by Cormac McCarthy/lilispan style="font-style: italic;"The Rainbow/span by D. H. Lawrence/lilispan style="font-style: italic;"On the Road/span by Jack Kerouac/lilispan style="font-style: italic;"The Corrections/span by Jonathan Franzen/lilispan style="font-style: italic;"The USA Trilogy/span by John Dos Passos/lilispan style="font-style: italic;"Jacob’s Room/span by Virginia Woolf/lilispan style="font-style: italic;"A Tale of Two Cities/span by Charles Dickens/li/ulAny list of books is there to be argued with. I'm very glad I've read span style="font-style: italic;"The Rainbow/span, span style="font-style: italic;"The Corrections/span and span style="font-style: italic;"A Tale of Two Cities/span. span style="font-style: italic;"The Road/span for all it's faults is a great book. But I reckon (shhhh!) that the writers are right about span style="font-style: italic;"One Hundred Years of Solitude/span, which I've read twice without enjoying it.br /br /Others on the list I haven't read, but now I'm curious.br /br /What would you argue with? (You are invited to post your comments a href="http://ow.ly/h8vu"here/a.) What would you like to see join the list?div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7912730-4689112713958810704?l=thebookaholic.blogspot.com'//div

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