OPINION: Can you survive without reading these 21 books?
According to USA Today, GQ magazine has ignited a firestorm on social media by publishing an article titled “21 Books You Don’t Have To Read.”
Yes, Ernest Hemingway’s “A Farewell To Arms,” J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22,” J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher In The Rye” and other classics of Western Civilization are dismissed as expendable, out-of-date and/or boring.
GQ of course, is the latest incarnation of the venerable Gentlemen’s Quarterly. Apparently, a gentleman’s duties now include opening the door for a lady, dressing appropriately and making fun of the idiots who don’t realize that Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” wouldn’t have been so “meandering” if Huck had invested in one of those cool “must have” GPS devices profiled in GQ.