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What Are Your “Gap” Books?

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You know how sometimes you’ll be talking to a group of people and someone will be like, “Dude, how great was that part in Harry Potter when such and such happens?” and you’re the one person in the world who hasn’t read Harry Potter and you quietly admit this and they’re like, “YOU HAVEN’T READ HARRY POTTER??? What is wrong with you?!?!”

Yeah.*

We all have our “gap” books, those books that everyone in the world has read and talks about all the time and look we are really meaning to read them but we’re all very busy and there are a lot of books to read and no one could possibly be expected to read them all and why do I have to defend myself aha;sldkjf;aj

Anyway, my name is Nathan Bransford. I have not read The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Yes. I know.

What are some of your gap books?

(*For the record I’ve read Harry Potter.)

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  3. Deb and David says

    Anna Karenina. No, that's not true. I read it in 9th grade and hated every second of it. I need to reread it as an adult.

    But what's even worse, is that I never saw "The Godfather." Talk about a conversation killer.

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  4. Tracy says

    Count me among the Harry Potter-less folks.

    I've also never read a single Nicholas Sparks novel. I just wait for the movies to come out.

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