For several years, I've made it one of my missions to read "old books", meaning all those classics I'd read about and heard about, and maybe even read excerpts from when I was in school. My main criterion for these "old books" was that in order to count, they had to be REALLY old: as… Continue reading 8 classics I enjoy reading, a lot
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Reading Homer
I think there's a misconception out there that Homer wrote high-falutin' literature. I don't think that's what he wrote at all. Homer wrote stories people liked to listen to and later read. Otherwise his work wouldn't have survived for 3000 years, or however long they actually have been around. These stories have all the stuff… Continue reading Reading Homer