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Yes. Additionally: lots of people aspire to be well-read, but disagree with her choices. As far as I can tell, they're all fiction. She doesn't list Michel de
by ahoyhere 16y ago
Yes. Additionally: lots of people aspire to be well-read, but disagree with her choices. As far as I can tell, they're all fiction.
She doesn't list Michel de Montaigne, Thoreau, Emerson, William James, or other authors of "classics" that I would consider to be required to be considered "well-read."
- brudgers 16y agoNo Descartes, Augustine, Plato, Homer, etc. either - It's a bit of an English major's list, and with no one like Richard Wright, Jose Saramogo or V.S. Naipaul it lacks enough when it comes diversity of viewpoints to raise the question, Is being well read as valuable as being widely read?
- ahoyhere 16y agoNone of it matters if it doesn't lead you to be a more thoughtful, flexible, inquisitive, humble, introspective person.