Do you follow Harold Bloom's Western canon literature list or variants? (1 Viewer)

[jasque]

AKA those long ass lists of books you need to read to be the know-all wise dude of the town.

Here are some variants:

Harold Bloom Creates a Massive List of Works in The “Western Canon”: Read Many of the Books Free Online

I have little desire to rehash the politics, but the facts are plain: by the time I arrived in college as an undergraduate English major in the mid-90s, the idea of the “Western Canon” as a container of—in the words of a famous hymn—“all that’s good, and great, and true” was seriously on the...

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Then there's the hardcore one, with a thousand:

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[jasque]

i should read more but i spend my time on kps

You'll know the classics indirectly by posting here

You'll be a billionaire too

 

[jasque]

@Seokjin we should make the western canon of wikipedia articles ebook

 

[Skinnny]

I have grown out of reading so nope
I wanna get back into it though
If it earns me the wise title, I shall definitely read it

 

[jasque]

@Seokjin we should make the western canon of wikipedia articles ebook

lol it actually exists something like that

Wikipedia:Vital articles - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[jasque]

I have grown out of reading so nope
I wanna get back into it though
If it earns me the wise title, I shall definitely read it

I bet @la_mort_pour_vous read the whole 1001 list already, and thought 2/3 of it is too boring.

 

[Skinnny]

I bet @la_mort_pour_vous read the whole 1001 list already, and thought 2/3 of it is too boring.

Lol he even finds Shakespeare plays boring

 

[jasque]

Lol he even finds Shakespeare plays boring

Even Macbeth? loll

 

[Skinnny]

Even Macbeth? loll

Idk about that one
He said they read "the tempest" in class and he didn't like it
He must have been planning his clone world domination while it was being read

 

[jasque]

Idk about that one
He said they read "the tempest" in class and he didn't like it
He must have been planning his clone world domination while it was being read

lol imagine him like "what are these deaths? I feel insulted"

 

[Hera]

nope but maybe i should 🤔