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Post by Reba on Jun 26, 2019 23:59:28 GMT -5
saw an awful article from washington post, best books to read at each age, 1-100. not gonna link it cuz it's poison. but it inspired me to make my own.
age 1 - hop on pop by dr seuss age 2 - the complete calvin and hobbes by bill watterson age 3 - fables by aesop age 4 - complete poems by william blake age 5 - metamorphoses by ovid age 6 - iliad & odyssey by homer age 7 - the bible by god age 8 - complete poems by emily dickinson age 9 - the divine comedy by dante age 10 - paradise lost by john milton age 11 - in search of lost time by marcel proust age 12 - hamlet by william shakespeare age 13 - ulysses by james joyce age 14 - the cantos by ezra pound age 15 and up - find yerself
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Jun 27, 2019 19:29:32 GMT -5
that's... funny, I guess? not good enough for Most Funny Member though
ages 1 and 3 actually make sense (and maybe 12>)
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Post by Reba on Jun 27, 2019 20:32:45 GMT -5
it's not suposed to be funny Turdy Craig
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Jun 27, 2019 21:42:02 GMT -5
*yawn* you acting like it's not meant to be funny is so old-hat. #stepupyourgame
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Post by Reba on Jun 27, 2019 22:31:10 GMT -5
if u dont think these books can be read by child you obviously aint read them yourself. also it's just about breaking free of da social standards, if a kid can talk then they can learn to read. JS mill learned greek at 3 and read aesop in original, i'm not even asking that much..
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Jun 28, 2019 10:43:10 GMT -5
what is a two-year old even gonna get out of the complete calvin&hobbes? they'll hardly be able to relate to a 6-7 year old character. i also feel like dante and milton will go largely over the heads of 9-year olds, and proust at age 11 is ridic.
btw I'm not disputing learning to read as soon as you can talk, i also learned reading and writing before school. and aesop is one of the few i said would be realistic. but hey, if a kid's interested in reading one of these books at any age, they should go for it; making them read some of these would probably backfire, though.
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Post by Reba on Jun 28, 2019 13:11:30 GMT -5
who cares about "relate" to a character and kids like to read "up" anyway, so a 6 y.o. likes 9 y.o. protagonists etc. i just think c&h would be a great thing to learn to read by, because lots of kids who learn at home before school do it thru the funnies, and it's a very clean expressive drawing style with some straightforward visual gags, but also often a big vocabulary and wordier gags. its true dante and milton would be some of the greatest challenges, but they are so essential..... and i think proust is actually one of the least ridic, i mean he is a kid & teenager throughout most of the books.. and if theyve followed my prescription up till then, vocabulary should no longer be a hindrance
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Jun 28, 2019 19:05:53 GMT -5
Eh, I'd replace C&H with Grimm's Fairy Tales, which would definitely be on my list somewhere early, but ok, I see how more of your choices might work than I initially thought. Maybe I also felt a bit inadequate that I haven't read some of these at all, despite knowing of their importance. If someone made me read f.ex. Ulysses at age 13, I'd probably hate reading forever and become an illiterate-by-choice, though.
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Post by counto on Aug 19, 2020 4:19:29 GMT -5
Ernest Hemingway is a good author to read his books:
The Old Man and The Sea A Farewell to Arms For Whom the Bells Toll The Sun Also Rises A Movable Feast
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Post by HAL 10,000 on Oct 17, 2021 13:14:53 GMT -5
Try some classic science fiction like H.G.Wells, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C.Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, or Philip K.Dick. Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles(series) Asimov: Foundation(series) Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land Starship Troopers Dick: We Can Remember It For You Wholesale(inspiration for Total Recall) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep(inspiration for Blade Runner) Wells: The War of the Worlds The Time Machine The Invisible Man The Island of Dr Moreau Clarke: 2001:A Space Odyssey Rendezvous With Rama Childhood's End The Light of Other Days
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Post by Reba on Oct 17, 2021 18:10:56 GMT -5
OR potato IN DONT !
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Post by R. on Nov 3, 2021 14:08:27 GMT -5
Some personal favourites in the crime/horror genres:
The Hound of the Baskervilles The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde And Then There Were None
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Post by carmelita0cheryl on Nov 6, 2021 11:56:02 GMT -5
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Avatar by Theophile Gautier Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en
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