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14321382 No.14321382 [Reply] [Original]

At what point would you, personally, feel yourself able to be called "well-read" without cringing, sneering, blushing, etc.?

>> No.14321410

>>14321382
If I read everything on the essential chart for both fiction and non fiction, read all the Greeks, the bible and was familiar with every influential philosopher then I could consider myself well read.

>> No.14321424

>>14321382
read a good amt of the typical classics(Iliad to lets say Picture of Dorian Gray to stuff like BM), Bible and poetry/prose poetry ending with the surrealist.

>> No.14321713

>>14321382
Never. Even if “we’ll-read” ever became an applicable descriptor for me, I would succumb to imposter syndrome and still feel like too much of a dumbfuck to use it.

>> No.14321726

After reading 10000 /lit/ posts

>> No.14321728

>>14321382
Once I finish my backlog of a hundred books

>> No.14321733

>>14321382
I feel like I'm well-read. I read Don Quixote, most of the classics, enough scifi and fantasy to understand those genres, a fair bit of literary fiction... I'm almost 30 and I've been reading all of my life so I feel pretty well read.
If there's anything I'm missing it's Shakespeare and the Bible... I've read some but not the whole thing.
I still have a lot of things I want to read but I feel pretty confident in having read a lot.

>> No.14321740

The more you read, the more you realize you haven't read.

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>>14321382
If you feel like lying, when saying that you're well read, just add "compared to the average person". The average person hardly reads at all, so that makes it pretty safe for you to make that statement.

>> No.14322334

I would feel fine saying it to anyone except someone who went to a Great Books school.

>> No.14322519

>>14321382
>haha this?
>Yeah no I just found it on the subway I don't really like reading haha

>> No.14322555

I don't read enough to ever reach a point where I will be able to call myself well-read, or even moderately read.

>> No.14322578

I can read and write Koine Greek and Latin fluently. Since this skill alone demands being well read.

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>>14321382
You'r just insecure, I readily call myself by such a description. It may be modestly impeded in some way(and coloured by my local vernacular, being of course Australian) such as "Yeah I'd say I'm fairly well read." But it still remains a statement of confidence in my higher education, yet no less bragging than those famous words of Socrates. Intention changes meaning, and as a result of knowing this shews your own lack of confidence. This you must build upon, speaking every word with the confidence of your own being. PROST!

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