Monday, July 13, 2009
100 greatest books
Whenever I see a list like this It makes me feel as though I am not well read. I have read 15 of them and started some of the others and never finished them. This list is rather expansive covering all books fiction and non-fiction alike going back as far as Homer's Illiad and the Bible.
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Having a canon of great literature is useful for a society in that a commonly-held story (or group of stories) acts as a binding agent by giving a common narrative or ideological language (e.g. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra). Still, the individual should not feel a duty to read them, or that he is insufficiently educated because he has not read them. Let the individual alone determine what he considers to be good art.
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