Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates
Oh look, I actually liked one
Classics
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 – James Fenimore Cooper
Said to be the first great American novel, one find themselves asking why.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
There are some things I don’t want to discuss with my students. Here’s one.
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway still feels like a burden, but I didn’t this one so much.
Gulliver’s Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World – Jonathan Swift
So called ‘classics’ pretty frequently don’t age very well. I am not sure why this is such a controversial statement.
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On the Road – Jack Kerouac
‘On the Road’ is one of those classics that won’t be a classic much longer.
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Reading the so called classics often leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. This is one of the few that I actually enjoyed.
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
Some ‘classics’ just aren’t worth anyone’s time.
Neuromancer – William Gibson
One of the most absolutely influential novels of all time, William GIbson’s Neuromancer did much to create the ambiance of the modern technological world.
The Song of Roland
A classic? A French hero braved the foreign hordes to defend his homeland. I’m not so sure…
Failures in Polymathy 