(Gilmore Girls fan site)In the episode “The Road Trip to Harvard,” in reference to Tuesdays with Morrie.
LORELAI: This building is one component of a thirteen million volume collection housed in more than ninety different libraries. It’s the oldest library in the United States and the largest academic library in the world. Breathe, breathe.
RORY: I’m a failure. I am stupid. I am uniformed and ignorant and… I can’t even think of a second synonym for uninformed. I suck. Thirteen million volumes? I’ve read like, what, three hundred books in my entire life and I’m already sixteen? Do you know how long it would take me to read thirteen million books?
LORELAI: But honey, you don’t have to read every one of them. Tuesdays with Morrie? Skip that. Who Moved My Cheese? Just stuff you already know.
RORY: Okay, but every kid coming to Harvard is inevitably reading books, and different books, and I want to be able to converse intelligently with each of them and I can’t do that unless I read books, at least a few from every genre and sub-genre.
LORELAI: Okay, come on. I’m getting you out of here.
RORY: I sleep too much.
LORELAI: No you don’t.
RORY: I’ve been frittering away my whole life.
LORELAI: You don’t fritter.
RORY: Did I mention I suck?
When Rory freaks out about not being able to read every book in one of Harvard’s libraries, Lorelai reminds her that not every book is worth reading. This says more about Lorelai than about the books, of course. Tuesdays with Morrie is too emotional for Lorelai’s (and Rory’s) taste. And Who Moved My Cheese is probably too cutesy moronic.
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