Don’t Know Much About Literature: What You Need to Know but Never Learned About Great Books and Authors by Kenneth C. Davis
My rating: 3/5 cats
it took me and greg about eight months to get through this one, due to misplacing the book or boredom or “better things to do” (can you imagine??) but today we finished it and celebrated by eating expensive birthday chocolates (thanks, elizabeth!!!) and watching the man in the yellow shirt sleep facedown on the rock. stay classy, woodside!!
this book was not as good as who killed iago, which was our last book of literary challenges shared on sunday dorkouts (and let us not speak of those cards and my devastating loss)(and i just realized goodreads.com deleted my review of these, along with several other things that are not technically books—wankers). i think this one was less fun because it was easier than the other book, and a lot of the quizzes were true/false, which any third grader can tell you are easy to guess correctly just by paying attention to the question’s phrasing.
greg probably won this one, too, overall (who knew he was so knowledgeable about the psalms??) but he got zero questions right about chinua achebe because he (greg) is totally racist. seriously. so racist.
a fun pasttime for nerds, but there are more challenging versions out there. find them.
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