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Is that a litmus test for quality, or do you plan on being alive five hundred years from now?


If you had read my words, you would know I obviously "plan" to live around 85 years, and the verb «think» would have suggested to you that I don't have an infallible way to know what the people of the future will enjoy reading.

I thought you were asking sincerely, but it seems you're either trying to start a flame with your sarcasm or just not reading through my words.

If I want to read good sci-fi or fantasy I'll pick Bradbury, Asimov, or any other brilliant author I _think_ will still be read in 500 years.

Go and read whatever you like, I couldn't care less.


I was asking sincerely, you gave me a non-answer.


If you were asking sincerely whether I was planning on living 500 years, you've read way too much Harry Potter.


I have, in fact.

EDIT: Actually, it doesn't have to be like this. I'm sorry for being unnecessarily snarky when you told me how you evaluate books. If I may, I'd like to rephrase my question too: "Keeping in mind specific volumes, what is a book that you could see yourself feeling sorry for somebody having not read before their funeral?"




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