1. I suspect this thing will only work if it is run by all of you and not by me. So, you should certainly feel free to disagree with everything below.
2. A modest program will likely work better than an ambitious one.
3. The final book list does not have to be a complete summer’s worth of reading—I am certain that many of you will have other books you want to read over the summer, and a schedule that is not all-consuming will probably work better.
4. This may seem obvious, but the longer the book, the less likely everyone will read it; similarly, the worse the prose style of the book, the less likely everyone will read it. That is only a serious problem if the reading list becomes an “all or nothing” sort of thing.
Looking over the list of books suggested so far, there are a large number of quite lengthy books. The long ones are:
100 Years of Solitude
Anna Karenina
Life of Johnson
Institutes of the Christian Religion
The Canterbury Tales
Don Quixote
East of
Federalist Papers
Philosophy of History
Leviathan
Critique of Pure Reason
Moby Dick
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Tin Drum
War and Peace
For the shorter works, here are a few comments:
1. The Communist Manifesto, The Metamorphosis, Much Ado About Nothing, and Of Mice and Men are very short, quick reads.
2. For Mill, the best bets are: On Liberty, Utilitarianism, or The Subjection of Women
3. For Freud, the best starting place is either 1) one of the parts of the Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (the three sections are Parapraxes (aka Freudian Slips), Dreams, and General Theory of the Neuroses—the whole book is long (almost 600 pages), but the sections can be read alone) or 2) (if you want a complete, short book) Civilization and its Discontents.
4. For Swift, Gulliver’s Travels is the obvious choice.
3 comments:
First off, who would have thought that Hartley would be the one to advocate moderation?
And secondly, I'm going to be rather incredibly busy this summer, so I agree completely with the modest program idea.
I like the idea of moderation. I have a job, music to arrange, and a grandmother to deal with.
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