Tachyon posted to Pyrzqxgl lists of "should-read" books. The lists were introduced with a message challenging Pyrzqxglites to "Take the RAT!" RAT stood for "Reading Aptitude Test." You scored one point for each book you had read. I scored abysmally. My abysmal score haunted me so much that I improved it!
My score also haunted me so much that I downloaded and saved a copy of the RAT, which is presented here. My loving restoration consisted of cutting and pasting. I vaguely recall that the list originally was compiled by some library association and that it contained no book published after 1960.
February 5, 1998: I discovered the source of the RAT, a publication called Timeless Classics, distributed by the US GSA's Consumer Information Center in Pueblo, Colorado.
Created May 12, 1997.
Last modified
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
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