>Harold Bloom
>Mortimer J. Adler
>Will Durant
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Who has the best "what to read" list?
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>Harold Bloom. >Mortimer J.
>Harold Bloom
>Mortimer J. Adler
>Will Durant
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Who has the best "what to read" list?
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>ywn go to this school
Can you imagine being a 30yo with a job and trying to self-teach this curriculum? Frick.
It's plausible, but it does take a lot of desire to do so and regulation of time outside of work.
Mind, quite a few of these books you could spend your whole life going back over, while a four year program is a nice occasion to have to sit and focus on them, you'd get much less out of them than you'd like.
They read Phaedrus at the end 0f Freshman and Senior year, since it's about speeches, reading, and writing, so it's, I guess, a tidy way to cap off what the students have been doing for four years.
It has a very high acceptance rate >60% and a reputation that a lot of the students only pretend to do the reading.
I know a guy who went there, and he would simply use SparkNotes for everything he could and pay 2-3 classmates for their notes on whatever remained. You could probably make enough to pay for a semester's worth of student loans if you study there and actually read the books
i went to sjc. i can assure you that you would definitely be dis-enabled if you didnt do the reading
Lol unlikely, so many bullshitters passed enablement and graduated
I'm 40 without one, I'm learning fast. must be the autism
Are you me?
Stupid frogposter.
Hey bro, you're not alone. Keep going.
At least they are trying to prepare seniors for entering the workforce by having them read The Metamorphosis by Kafka
Me
Bloom
>Gives out specific translations on what to read
>Included Epic of Gilgamesh and other "Eastern" works
>Realizes Shakespeare is king
Why did you put eastern in quotes?
Because the East is not real, only an alleged location
Because it's debated what is "East" and "West". Some say Russia isn't "the west".
You can easily find a good translation through your own research by keeping in mind your purposes for reading
Also, Gilgamesh originates from the river valley civilization from which Western Society springs--it was axial in that regard, not Eastern
Read a fricking book
I have no idea who those guys are.
>phaedrus twice
Mortimer J Adler’s is the most straightforward. Bloom includes way too much, this St John’s list is too wacky with its inclusion of old scientific and mathematical works and American focused, and idk Durant’s.
Try Clifton Fadiman's Lifetime Reading Plan.
I like that one because it's a good combination of mostly Western with enough Eastern to give context (at least with the latest edition co-edited by Major), without an excessive emphasis on particular domains. Adler focuses too much on "thought" works which emphasize ideas and the philosophies of an era with an inadequate emphasis on pure art, while Bloom skews too far the other way and emphasizes aesthetic quality over historical and philosophical context (to say nothing of his full list's prohibitive length)--Fadiman splits the difference, to decent effect.
That said, once you finish Fadiman (230-ish books, chronologically please, grasshopper), you can absolutely use all the remaining lists you've posted (particularly Bloom) to fill in the gaps, though now with sufficient context to see how each of these additional works was informed by the signal texts of each era.
>That said, once you finish Fadiman (230-ish books, chronologically please, grasshopper), you can absolutely use all the remaining lists you've posted (particularly Bloom) to fill in the gaps, though now with sufficient context to see how each of these additional works was informed by the signal texts of each era.
I like this idea. Pretty cool Fadiman was a cousin to William James Sidis.
http://sonic.net/~rteeter/greatbks.html
Also: https://thegreatestbooks.org/
Thanks
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/catalogue-of-books-from-mudies-circulating-library
>https://eggsa.org/1820-settlers/index.php/records-of-the-cape-colony
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/
>https://www.otago.ac.nz/english-linguistics/tudor/reference.html
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebogroup/
>http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/index.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/wiki/books
>https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?page=browse&cc=ecco&c=ecco
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/homeop?cginame=text-idx;id=navbarbrowselink;page=browse
>https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/browse.html
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/modsbookfull.asp
>http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collections
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/home.html
>https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3449120&view=1up&seq=15
https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/lists.html
>https://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/index.html
http://www.fullbooks.com/
>https://www.fulltextarchive.com/
https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en
>https://lexundria.com/
http://www.attalus.org/index.html
>https://www.tertullian.org/
https://topostext.org/texts
>https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?page=browse&cc=moa&c=moa
http://www.luminarium.org/
>https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8244.Loompanics_Unlimited
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/index.html
>https://maps.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_shepherd_1911.html
https://www.ccel.org/index/title/A
>https://www.fadedpage.com/index.php
https://digital.nls.uk/encyclopaedia-britannica/archive/190218840
>https://www.telelib.com/authors.html
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Fantastic-Four-1961
>https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/
https://library.uniteddiversity.coop/
>http://www.lesatkins.com/books/epubfiles/
https://worldradiohistory.com/
>http://www.pauladaunt.com/books/
https://joycefoundation.utulsa.edu/resource-center/bibliography-works-on-james-joyce/books-finnegans-wake/
>https://the-eye.eu/public/Books/
https://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/thomas.htm
>http://gospelofthomas.nazirene.org/philip.htm
https://rejectedscriptures.weebly.com/book-of-veles.html
>https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-desert
https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/pre/pre04.htm
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I'm torn. I tried this year doing SJC's reading list. It's great but halfway through I wasn't feeling like I was learning anything. Their reading schedule is also very intense – Junior or Senior year they read War & Peace in two weeks. I'm sure it can be done but how do you enjoy a book that massive in such a short time?
Everyone is different and I think only you know what'll be best for your mind, soul, etc. when it comes to being well-read. What's the point in dragging yourself through Euclid's Elements if you don't care about math?
If you do have a natural curiosity then, of course, dig at the list. Nothing wrong with it!
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Bloom probably has the better list. However, it’s probably more important to read deeply and what you feel will enrich your life.