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What is one book that you think everyone should read?

Leslie wrote: "What is one book that you think everyone should read?"

What a great question Leslie. Here's my answer, but it's sort of cheating: Hamlet. Everyone should read Hamlet. Is Hamlet a book? No, it's a play. But that's my answer anyway. Reading tastes differ and times change and everyone has different literary needs, but Hamlet is in everything and everything is in Hamlet. Sometimes that play annoys me, and often that character annoys me, and parts of it just draaaaaaagggggg, BUT it also includes passages which are simply the best use of language to date. You know how they say Mozart makes your brain smarter without your conscious mind having to do anything? I think reading Hamlet does that too.