I agree kids (us lot) should read the classics, whatever that means. I also agree (or argue) that the already-educated ones should keep up with Literature, instead of thinking it is a thing of the Past, dead and buried.

Not that anybody around here does that. Just giving two sides to the horizon-broadening coin.

Bogey; I borrowed Brave New World some time ago, and it's still on my shelf. Seen any films of it? I've got a TV movie adaptation, with that thick-eye-browed-guy from The OC and While You Were Sleeping in it.

As regards current reads, I'm still halfway through a re-read of The Magus. After that, I shall embark on Alain-Fournier's Le Grande Meaulnes, the novel which inspired Fowles'.