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[adamsea]

Good luck with James Joyce's Ulysses ... or Samuel Beckett. Or Thomas Pynchon. Or -- the author you didn't even know existed until the domain expert (aka professor) assigned/suggested it.

Or, you know ... history?

Or even Shakespeare, for that matter. For some, a course makes reading such material hugely more enlightening.

[cm2187 → adamsea]

You are describing a reading list.

[adamsea → cm2187]

A list to support my argument :)