At 01:11 PM 12/13/2002 -0500, Tucker wrote: >> > You read thousand-page novels to get the payoff for a 5-10 page >> > comedy skit? >>Why not? I've read novels/books just because I feel >>I should at some point in my life. I've pushed myself >>through "difficult" books because I wanted to read them, >>if only to say I did it. > >Heh. I think it was Mark Twain who said that a book was a classic if it >was one you want to have read, not >one you want to read. Twain defined a classic as a book that people praise and don't read.