A Classic Case of Incompetence

The Washington Post | January 21, 1989 | Copyright

Clay Warnick's article "Big Trouble With Great Books" {Style Plus, Jan. 12} may be the most foolishly anti-intellectual article I have ever read. No one should feel compelled to read every "great book." If you don't enjoy a book, put it down and start another.

Like Warnick, I too have never been able to read more than a few pages of Dante or Rabelais. But I have spent thousands of hours reading and rereading Shakespeare, Luke, Plutarch, Po Chu-i, Tolstoy, Thoreau, Orwell and Churchill. All of them are super writers, with verbal diamonds sparkling on nearly every page.

If Warnick cannot ...

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