On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:25:18 +0200, Michael Kuettner wrote:

> Kathleen wrote:
>> Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq. wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I didn't think much of Walton's "The Complete Angler" or "Zen and the
>>> Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." And Kerouacks "On the Road" was only
>>> slightly better.
>>
>> I didn't like any of the above, although I was told that I was supposed
>> to.
>> I read through Hemmingway's stuff by the time I was 10 - it was in the
>> living room bookcase. At that point, nobody had told me what ultimately
>> became of the man. Based on his writing alone, I thought that there was
>> something seriously wrong with him. I was right. Don't even get me
>> started on Salinger...
>>
>> I am an insatiable, omnivorous reader. Put it in ink, leave it where I
>> can reach it and it will get read. But I always wonder why some things
>> wind up deemed "classics", how they end up as required reading in high
>> school or college? Who decides these things?
>>
>> Personally, I would get naked for Mark Twain or Terry Pratchett
>> (assuming the one wasn't dead and the other afflicted with rapid onset
>> Alzheimer's).
>
> Then you'd also might like to try Tom Sharpe and Douglas Adams.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael Kuettner

two other very funny men.

your pal,
blake