tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36746999.post3754607715523041575..comments2024-03-08T06:45:22.099-03:00Comments on The Jungle Hut: A Better Reading ListRita Locahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09961929692808138092noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36746999.post-29084634012056158032009-03-01T21:52:00.000-02:002009-03-01T21:52:00.000-02:00Well, I've only read a few of these, so I guess I'...Well, I've only read a few of these, so I guess I'd better get busy! :) It's hard to put down the books I like to read though....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36746999.post-27204875314465104902009-03-01T21:26:00.000-02:002009-03-01T21:26:00.000-02:00FJ, that's a great site you linked to! Thanks for ...FJ, that's a great site you linked to! Thanks for sharing!Rita Locahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09961929692808138092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36746999.post-40238613621955776092009-03-01T15:59:00.000-02:002009-03-01T15:59:00.000-02:00Much better... :-)Much better... <A HREF="http://www.greatbooksprogram.org/readinglist.htm" REL="nofollow">:-)</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36746999.post-213486032472292932009-03-01T02:23:00.000-02:002009-03-01T02:23:00.000-02:00Now that is a REAL reading list. Of these, I have ...Now that is a REAL reading list. Of these, I have read:<BR/><BR/>Classical Reading List<BR/><BR/>The Epic of Gilgamesh<BR/>The Bible<BR/>The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer<BR/>Aesop's Fables<BR/><BR/>Medieval Reading List<BR/><BR/>Beowulf<BR/>Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy<BR/>Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales<BR/><BR/>Renaissance Reading List<BR/><BR/>Cervantes' Don Quixote<BR/>Milton's Paradise Lost<BR/><BR/>17th and 18th Centuries Reading List<BR/><BR/>Defoe's Robinson Crusoe<BR/>Marlowe's Tragical History of Doctor Faustus<BR/>Swift's Gulliver's TravelsMost Rev. Gregorihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07540256252670065874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36746999.post-1482174117987821932009-02-28T23:48:00.000-02:002009-02-28T23:48:00.000-02:00Great post - keep up the excellent work!SteveCOMMO...Great post - keep up the excellent work!<BR/><BR/>Steve<BR/>COMMON CENTS <BR/>http://www.commoncts.blogspot.comcommoncentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14497825816313122743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36746999.post-31247705095384739502009-02-28T19:46:00.000-02:002009-02-28T19:46:00.000-02:00I would add the Koran on that list too. If only t...I would add the Koran on that list too. If only to know your enemy better.<BR/><BR/>A good listing. I have read most of these too.<BR/><BR/>Now someone tell me why my generation is better read than todays? Why is it that we have read most of the classical literature and our children have not? Why is it that I had to hand many of these books to my girls so they would get an understanding of what good literature is.<BR/><BR/>Oh another author that should be on any list is James Joyce. He was required reading for me in High School. So was Pearl S. Buck.Findalishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02881549378886491540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36746999.post-47828801302285569362009-02-28T19:41:00.000-02:002009-02-28T19:41:00.000-02:00I cannot say that I have read a very good % of the...I cannot say that I have read a very good % of these titles, (outside of excerpts in Lit class) but it seems like a much better list than the other one!! Thanks, I plan to print this out and put it in my "to read" to-do list!taschahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05129950761805360141noreply@blogger.com