The wisdom of Mortimer Adler

"In the case of good books,
    the point is not how many of them you can get through,
        but rather how many can get through to you."
Mortimer Jerome Adler (1902-2001)
Philosopher, educator, author

Of course. Keep reading.

And by the way, my Great Books list is a work in progress…….I don't know if a book is on my list until after I've read it, here are a couple that come to mind right now, no particular order:

Moby Dick (Herman Melville)

A Distant Mirror (Barbara Tuchman)

1491 (Charles Mann)

The Andromeda Strain (Michael Crichton)


Grooming, Gossip and Language (Robin Dunbar)

The Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell)

She (H. Rider Haggard)

The Literary Life (Larry McMurtry)

The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos de Laclos)

The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)

The Blank Slate (Steven Pinker)

Mila 18 (Leon Uris)

Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution (Stuart Kauffman)

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