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My List Of The 25 Landmarks Of World Literature
Posted on 02/13/2017 11:09:14 PM PST by goldstategop
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To: goldstategop
Atlas Shrugged.
The Road to Serfdom.
Animal Farm.
1984.
The collected works of Milton Friedman.
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posted on
02/13/2017 11:34:52 PM PST
by
rfp1234
(DinosorosExtinction)
To: Meet the New Boss
Gulliver’s Travels.
Satire has a long history. For me, the Good Soldier Svejk comes to mind in illustrating the absurdity of war.
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posted on
02/13/2017 11:37:43 PM PST
by
goldstategop
((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
To: pax_et_bonum
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posted on
02/13/2017 11:38:44 PM PST
by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
To: nickcarraway
Hamlet contains more expressions that made it into modern English usage than any of the other plays.
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posted on
02/13/2017 11:39:31 PM PST
by
rfp1234
(DinosorosExtinction)
To: goldstategop
Surprised this didn't make the list :o). In all seriousness, good list.
To: Vendome
I wasn’t going to mention it, but you also left off all of The Far Side books.
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posted on
02/13/2017 11:42:08 PM PST
by
pax_et_bonum
(Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
To: goldstategop
My list of the 25 most influential works... Almost every one has read them.
What world do you live in? /* snicker */
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posted on
02/13/2017 11:43:00 PM PST
by
Garth Tater
(What's mine is mine.)
To: goldstategop
The Bible is always a #1 in books. Why not here?
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posted on
02/13/2017 11:45:19 PM PST
by
taxesareforever
(Islam is an ideology. It is NOT a religion.)
To: goldstategop
Almost every one has read them. I read the Cliff notes.
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posted on
02/13/2017 11:47:56 PM PST
by
P-Marlowe
(Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
Those are hardly landmark books when compared to the list below:
The Bible
US Constitution in original form
Declaration of Independence
The Federalist
Seems like those have shaped the world’s political and economic systems and positively affected the global population more than anything on your original list.
On the negative list:
Koran
Communist Manifesto
Mein Kampf
Rules for Radicals
Some books are meant to be burned.
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posted on
02/13/2017 11:50:45 PM PST
by
AlmaKing
To: pax_et_bonum
I believe everything I’m told, or so I’m told.
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posted on
02/13/2017 11:50:59 PM PST
by
Sgt_Schultze
(If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
To: taxesareforever
I arranged them in chronological order.
Of course, leftists will disparage it because its about DEWM.
And it leaves out the literature of India, China and Japan but those ideas came late to the West.
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posted on
02/13/2017 11:52:35 PM PST
by
goldstategop
((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
To: AlmaKing
Yes, I see you have the Bible and The Federalist, but placing the Iliad and Odyssey before them doesn’t work. The Iliad and the Odyssey didn’t cause mass migrations, wars, prosperity, suffering.
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posted on
02/13/2017 11:53:57 PM PST
by
AlmaKing
To: AlmaKing
Or banned.
Censorship seldom works to beat back bad ideas.
Thankfully, people are in a position to judge them on their merits today.
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posted on
02/13/2017 11:54:51 PM PST
by
goldstategop
((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
To: goldstategop
Tom Wolfe on the honorable mention list please. Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers to Kingdom of Speech.
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posted on
02/13/2017 11:57:44 PM PST
by
wpjmd
(lex credendi lex orandi lex vivendi)
To: goldstategop
Apollonius to Eudemus greeting.
If you are in good health and matters are in other respects as you wish, it is well; I am pretty well too. - Greek Mathematical Works II, Loeb Classical Library
Time out of time. Yes that is THE Apollonius, and YOU ARE THERE!
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posted on
02/14/2017 12:24:08 AM PST
by
dr_lew
(I)
To: goldstategop
Western thought, OK. World Lit, it needs the Mahabharata, Tale of Genji, the Tao Te Ching, and the Analects of Confucius.
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posted on
02/14/2017 12:24:28 AM PST
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: BookmanTheJanitor
Now you’re cooking with gas!-oh wait a minute...
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posted on
02/14/2017 12:26:49 AM PST
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: goldstategop
Number should be number one.
Sadly most people have not read many of the books on your list
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posted on
02/14/2017 12:30:40 AM PST
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: AlmaKing
"Some books are meant to be burned." Poisons, administered in specific doses and with a full understanding of their dangers, are invaluable in medicine.
E.G. I, myself take a microdose of a deadly poison (Digitalis) every day.
By that same token a controlled study of Evil in Print can provide the tools of its undoing.
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posted on
02/14/2017 12:31:23 AM PST
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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