[Kozy]

Iliad and Shakespeare. Upper division Greek student at my school, read it in the original Greek. I had only one year and opted for the sciences for junior and senior years. I have an understanding problem with Shakespeare. I should take a Shakespeare course to analyze his works so I can appreciate them.

The Great Gatsby and the Scarlett Letter are excellent. We read Paton's Cry the Beloved Country and Too Late Phalarope. This was in the 60's before I even knew what South Africa was enduring. Also Out of Darkness.

I'll read Poe and Jack London.

As a kid I read all the Freddy the Pig books. The first country detective. I read civil war novels to understand what we went through as a nature.

What I was exposed to by my dad and my high school was a wide range of books, authors and ideas. Now ideas have to be an elevator pitch of 60 seconds. no one has the time to read and enjoy beautiful books.

[linda_22003]

Thanks very much (I haven't thought of Freddy the Pig in years!).

I've been playing around today with "LibraryThing", which was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal today. Great fun; you can see what people have in their libraries, and for most people it's a good, rudimentary cataloging tool. I like the built-in social networking feature. http://www.librarything.com .