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Classics
Which "classics" have you read that actually made a strong impression on you, and/or had a significant influence on you? Which do you keep in your library because you truly want to have them at your fingertips to read -- or at least dip into -- again and again?
ETA: Lists are great, folks -- but what I'm really interested in is why and/or how these books touched you in such an important way.
ETA: Lists are great, folks -- but what I'm really interested in is why and/or how these books touched you in such an important way.
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I was thinking about the books that have been judged "timeless" and appear on lists of "Books Everyone Should Read" and college literature course lists. But anything still in print more than two thousand years later definitely counts!
The Greek tragedians are on my list.
I need to go back and read Homer again. . . .