be unreasonable to suppose that the books that have meant a great deal to me should be precisely those that will mean a great deal to you。 but they are books that i feel the richer for having read， and i think i should not be quite the man i am if i had not read them。 no one is under an obligation to read poetry or fiction or the miscellaneous literature which is classed as belleslettres。 he must read them for pleasure， and who can claim that what pleases one man must necessarily please another?