The Unread Dusty Classics Game - Tag, You're It!

Cafe Society
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We’re going to play a little game, inspired by this thread.

  1. I post the title of an unread classic that I’ve actually read.
  2. The next person who has read that very same obscure classic then posts an obscure classic he or she has read, etc.

For example, I post Middlemarch.
You’ve read Middlemarch. You post “I’ve read Middlemarch, and I’ve read The Pilgrim’s Progress”
Next person posts “I’ve read The Pilgrim’s Progress, and I’ve read A Journal of the Plague Year”

Here we go.

I’ve read Middlemarch.

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Okay, I’ve read Middlemarch (for a college class in Religion and Modern Literature—it was the prof’s favorite novel).

And I’ve read Lewis Carroll’s Sylvie and Bruno.

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<Psst Thudlow Boink - you’re not supposed to make the game end immediately, you’re supposed to offer something that keep it going, not kill it! Sylvie and Bruno, my ass!>

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I’ve read Sylvie and Bruno in Carroll’s collected works. I’ve read Decline & Fall Of The Roman Empire by Gibbons.

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I’ve read The Decline and Fall, and raise you one The Exeter Book Riddles by anonymous.

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God, you guys are playing hardball. sulks

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Yeah, I’ve read the Exeter Book Riddles, and I’ll raise you by The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

[sub]No, not the whole thing, but at least a few decades count.[/sub]

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I’m gonna have to drop this class…

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Yeah, I read it in the original Saxon… not. (I did read at least a little bit, in English. I’m not sure it was a couple decades’ worth of pages, but it might have been. I’ll let somebody else play, and if nobody does, then we can pretend that I read enough of it to count.)

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psst – whaddya say we start a parallel game for the slightly-less-well-read? :wink:

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I’ve read portions of the Chronicle in the original.

Just to lower the net a little bit, I also read Frank Norris’ McTeague.

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Consider it done.

The object is to keep the game moving as long as we can. Not to stop it with something horrifyingly obscure. If you offer something that is horrifyingly obscure, you’re no fun.

We’ll start over.

I’ve read Middlemarch.

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Nonsuch - we’re good, I’ve read McTeague.

I’ve read Middlemarch.

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Thanks.

I’ve read Middlemarch – I’ve also read Middlesex by Geoffrey (Jeffrey?) Eugenides.

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So it has to be dusty but not too dusty? What is horrifyingly obscure, anyway?

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Oooo! Oooo! Ooo!
I’ve read Middlemarch and I’ve read The Pilgrim’s Progress!

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I’ve read The Pilgrim’s Progess and I’ve read **The Good Soldier ** by Ford Madox Ford.

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These are supposed to be books, right?

OK, I got one. Now to lurk until someone posts a book I’ve read…

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Dammit, I’ve actually read McTeague, too.

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Err…I’ve read Middlemarch…twice.

And A Journal of the Plague Years. And The Fifth Queen by Ford Madox Ford.

Anything? Anything? No?

Oh well. slinks away