# To Read or not to Read, that is the question; GoT

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From the Pit thread from 2 years ago that **SenorBeef** links to in post#34, these have got to be the most arrogant, repugnant, smug and self-congratulatory statements for reading one series of fantasy books:

> [@Senor Beef and his crusade against knowledge](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senor-beef-and-his-crusade-against-knowledge/657743/1):
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> […]The mission of the SDMB is to FIGHT ignorance, not promulgate it. I am sorry if Senor Beef and his ilk are illiterate, but that’s their problem, not everyone else’s. As has been shown, most Dopers have read and enjoyed the books. Dopers are a rather literate crowd, Senor Beef notwithstanding.
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> […]
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> The only reason why there’s a kerfluffle about this is that the illiterate crowd makes it that way.
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> Look dude, I know those are rather large thick books, and when you move your lips while reading and have to sound out all the “hard words” it makes slow going. But why penalize those of us who can actually read?

> [@Senor Beef and his crusade against knowledge](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senor-beef-and-his-crusade-against-knowledge/657743/9):
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> Fair point, I used to play D&D, I read lots of books, am a Star Wars & Trek fan, etc.
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> But nerds _read_. \*\*Senor Beef \*\*does not.

> [@Senor Beef and his crusade against knowledge](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senor-beef-and-his-crusade-against-knowledge/657743/17):
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> Sure, as it’s based upon his demand for ignorance and his illiteracy. I have no problem with asking for “no spoilers", that’s just courtesy, but to demand that the book can’t even be _mentioned_- only because you aren’t literate enough to read it? Puhleeze.

> [@Senor Beef and his crusade against knowledge](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senor-beef-and-his-crusade-against-knowledge/657743/24):
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> Again, no problem with “no spoilers’. I have a problem with “I can’t read the books they are too big and too full of long words and it makes my brain hurts and my lips numb from sounding them all out -thus you can’t even mention that they exist”

:rolleyes:  
And heres a perfectly pithy statement from **Alessan** which should shut the trap of any reasonablely modest person:

> [@Senor Beef and his crusade against knowledge](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senor-beef-and-his-crusade-against-knowledge/657743/16):
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> Yeah. All the man asked for is one thread per episode in which the book and its contents aren’t mentioned. Is it so hard to give him this?

But no, **DrDeth** just continues with this drivel.

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