10-05-2007, 04:54 AM
Haggis Killer Wrote:I remain an uncultured boob, I suspect.
But am I happy?
That was probably a rhetorical question, but in a word, yes. I suspect you are much happier than someone who has read all of the books on those lists. I've never understood why so many people seem to equate "depressing" with "cultured"? Seems to be true for much of film, too -- for some reason it has to be off-the-scale uncomfortable and tragic in order to be judged as "good."
When I see a list like this, I have to wonder what their criteria for "best" involved. Clearly it's very different from my own.
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.