I quite fancy an earnest reading project - just not that particular one. Or the John Stuart Mill Latin-at-four, Greek-at-seven one (years old, not o'clock, that is).
I was doing okay with the Gladstone list, even thinking it might be an acheivable aim (although I am too old for it, have wasted my youth, etc) until I saw the comment to the third book on the list and choked a little bit.
Would be interested to hear your ideas for earnest reading protjects, I will probably try one but am bit low on inspiration as to what it should be just now.
Well, I was considering trying to read the Captain Alatriste novels in the original Spanish; I seem to be working on Spain quite a lot and it seemed like a good way to improve my reading and get my daft swashbuckling quota in... but I haven't got round to it yet. I'm not sure whether I've really got the motivation for it.
I think something thematic would be good too, though not too keen on some of Gladstone's more contemporary choices (speeches of Huskisson, anyone?). The rest looks pretty good though.
What I want to read: Herodotus Ovid's Metamorphoses Byron's Don Juan Count of Monte Cristo Don Quixote rest of Dickens, possible exceptions Hard Times/Old Curiosity Shop Some sort of essays - Bacon, rest of Hazlitt, Montaigne (erk) Anatomy of Melancholy Some thumping big history books
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Would be interested to hear your ideas for earnest reading protjects, I will probably try one but am bit low on inspiration as to what it should be just now.
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I think something thematic would be good too, though not too keen on some of Gladstone's more contemporary choices (speeches of Huskisson, anyone?). The rest looks pretty good though.
What I want to read:
Herodotus
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Byron's Don Juan
Count of Monte Cristo
Don Quixote
rest of Dickens, possible exceptions Hard Times/Old Curiosity Shop
Some sort of essays - Bacon, rest of Hazlitt, Montaigne (erk)
Anatomy of Melancholy
Some thumping big history books
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Sorry. Just an observation :D
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