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Post by Jolly on Dec 12, 2019 23:39:52 GMT
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Post by BrewDaddy on Dec 13, 2019 0:16:45 GMT
Of the Classics listed, looks like I would only need a 2-3 inch shelf... Only one I believe I've read is Homer's The Odyssey....
Interesting that the koran is on there as well....
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Dec 13, 2019 0:29:34 GMT
I read the other day, but don't know how true it is, that a high school graduate today couldn't pass the graduation from 6th grade test from 1900.
To my thinking, this country would be a whole lot better off if every junior in high school was required to read Frederick Bastiat's "The Law" written in 1850. It's not a long or drawn out dissertation, but once read, needs discussion to make clear the thoughts it presents that extend into today's society.
Then as seniors required to read "Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America". Much more reading, but insightful to the point of explaining the socialist tendencies of populations.
Our recent past, and current generations have no understanding of how the common man is manipulated and duped by true believers in theories that never have, and never will work.
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Post by Jolly on Dec 13, 2019 1:02:42 GMT
It once was said a man could have an educated conversation if he had read the Bible, Plutarch's Lives and Blackstone.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2019 14:01:20 GMT
Dang. I've read a handful of those books, and it's been so long that I feel I should read them again. Ozarks Tom, I agree with you that h.s. kids should read Bastiat and de Tocqueville - the latter if for no other reason than to show them that this country is unique in all of history, and not the demonized slum they insist it is. I am now off to read The Frogs of Aristophanes. Never read it before. |
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Post by TxGal on Dec 13, 2019 14:23:19 GMT
Of the Classics listed, looks like I would only need a 2-3 inch shelf... Only one I believe I've read is Homer's The Odyssey....
Interesting that the koran is on there as well....
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Ditto. I have only fully read The Scarlet Letter. There's quite a few on the list that I've read/studied exerts. Not quite the same though. |
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Post by Jolly on Dec 13, 2019 14:56:53 GMT
His Autobigraphy-Franklin
Lives- Plutarch
Don Quixote - Cervantes
Thousand and One Nights - Lane-Poole
Fables -Aesop
The Odyssey - Homer
Two Years Before the Last - Dana
The Holy Grail - Mallory
Some of the English poetry, some American writings and the Bible part of the Sacred Texts.
That's all I got...
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Post by daw on Dec 13, 2019 15:05:45 GMT
I had Mother’s third grade speller. Schoolbooks were slow to
be upgraded so I do not know how old it was. The words
were often 8-12 letters. Though I was a good speller, there were
words I did not know. I was in my teens when I first saw that book.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2019 15:37:51 GMT
His Autobigraphy-Franklin
Lives- Plutarch
Don Quixote - Cervantes
Thousand and One Nights - Lane-Poole
Fables -Aesop
The Odyssey - Homer
Two Years Before the Last - Dana
The Holy Grail - Mallory
Some of the English poetry, some American writings and the Bible part of the Sacred Texts. That's all I got... I'm thinking that Monty Python doesn't count, eh? |
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Post by Jolly on Dec 13, 2019 20:51:39 GMT
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Post by Thtwudbeme on Dec 13, 2019 23:56:57 GMT
I am shocked that the "Hitchhiker's Guide" is not on the list (even if it was written after the list first came out).  Pay no attention to that list.  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2019 22:47:07 GMT
Wow. I consider myself well read but according to that list I am a true slacker.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2019 23:13:51 GMT
Thanks, Thtwudbeme and @wvfarmgirl, for pointing out that the list needs to be updated. Douglas Adams' Hitchhhiker trilogy of 5 books is certainly a must read, as are Brave New World and 1984. Is it highjacking the thread to come up with our own updates, or shall we post them here? |
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Post by Thtwudbeme on Dec 15, 2019 23:17:58 GMT
Thanks, Thtwudbeme and @wvfarmgirl , for pointing out that the list needs to be updated. Douglas Adams' Hitchhhiker trilogy of 5 books is certainly a must read, as are Brave New World and 1984. Is it highjacking the thread to come up with our own updates, or shall we post them here?
Post away right here! Let's update that puppy!
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Post by aussiedarren on Dec 15, 2019 23:54:25 GMT
Heck I am fairly well read have even read Pliny's treatise on farming in the Roman empire but heck never heard of quite a few of them, not a lot there related to actual working just a lot of navel gazing, and the list didnt even contain Melville's Moby Dick?
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