I have discovered a new challenge. I very much doubt I shall complete it, but I will learn from the parts I do accomplish. Hmm, I do love a good quest.<\/p>\n
Today I discovered that amazon.com is offering a book set for sale. This set is like the Absolute King of book sets: it is made up of 1,082 titles! It is called The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection<\/a>, and is available for a mere $7,989.99. I read through the entire listing of books in the set of Western classics<\/a>, and now I am VERY disappointed in myself. Out of 1,082 books, I have only read twenty-nine.<\/p>\n Twenty-nine!<\/p>\n That is appalling; I am so very ashamed of myself. I’ve always prided myself on being a prolific reader of good books — I’ve even read Shakespeare for pleasure — yet I have seemed to miss many of the books considered to be classics. Granted, I have heard of most of the books on the list and figured I would read them at some point in time . . . I just haven’t gotten around to it. Procrastination, you know.<\/p>\n So, New Goal in Life(tm): I shall read as many of the books on this list as I can, or at least the ones that will amuse me. I don’t know if I can force myself to read that much poetry. We shall see.<\/p>\n However, I feel I must point out a few glaring holes in this list. It is missing quite a few classics such as To Kill a Mockingbird, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Jerusalem Delivered, Jonathan Seagull, Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, 1984, and probably some others that I haven’t thought of yet. Apparently Penguin Classics doesn’t have editions of these novels yet. So sad.<\/p>\n Guess I better get reading, starting with that Pride and Prejudice book that’s been on my shelf for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have discovered a new challenge. I very much doubt I shall complete it, but I will learn from the parts I do accomplish. Hmm, I do love a good quest. Today I discovered that amazon.com is offering a book set for sale. This set is like the Absolute King of book sets: it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}