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- Why Read Classic Books? https://literaryforge.blog/2021/03/03/why-read-classic-books/ 113 comments
- Why Read the Classics? (1986) https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1986/10/09/why-read-the-classics/ 160 comments
- What are some "classic" math textbooks that are still worth reading today? https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/6er1on/what_are_some_classic_math_textbooks_that_are/ 68 comments math
- The Classic Books You Haven’t Read http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-classic-books-you-havent-read-1474991552 8 comments books
- Why you should read the classics. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1986/oct/09/why-read-the-classics/?pagination=false 48 comments books
- Why teenagers should read classics http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2015/feb/01/why-teenagers-should-read-classic-books 55 comments books
- 23 Amazing Classic Books That Are So Short You Have No Excuse Not To Read Them http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/06/these-classic-books-are-s_n_4373470.html 26 comments books
- How To Read A "Classic" http://thethingaboutflying.com/2012/07/31/how-to-read-a-classic/ 33 comments books
- How to Read a Classic... http://bookriot.com/2011/11/02/how-to-read-a-classic/ 3 comments books
- The Tao Te Ching. A classic worth reading and contemplating. http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/taote-v3.html 3 comments reddit.com
- Five Literary Classics by African Women To Read https://the45girl.com/five-literary-classics-by-african-women/ 12 comments books
- It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste most of it - a classic reading from Seneca's 'On the Shortness of Life' https://thedailyidea.org/seneca-passage-on-the-shortness-of-life/ 211 comments philosophy
- 10 Classic YA Books You Should Read That Are Also Great Movies http://www.buzzfeed.com/cmerry/10-classic-ya-books-you-need-to-read-that-are-also-40g7 5 comments books
- I'm going to read The Harvard Classics http://thewholefivefeet.com/ 13 comments books
- Ten best neglected literary classics - have you read any of them? http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/gallery/2011/feb/27/ten-best-neglected-literary-classics 41 comments books
- British men reading aloud from classic novels. Swoon. http://www.cartenoire.co.uk/home/1 8 comments books
- 10 Ways to Improve Your Mind by Reading the Classics http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/improve-your-mind-by-reading-the-classics/ 42 comments reddit.com
- White supremacist sentenced to read literary classics | ITV News https://www.itv.com/news/central/2021-09-01/white-supremacist-sentenced-to-read-literary-classics 14 comments europe
- Mr Greedy 'almost as hard to read' as Steinbeck classics https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47426551 5 comments nottheonion
- An old classic worth the read: I'm Going To Scale My Foot Up Your Ass http://teddziuba.com/2008/04/im-going-to-scale-my-foot-up-y.html?rd 30 comments programming
- What is the first classic you’ll read to your kids? http://iheartclassics.tumblr.com/post/5767943039/what-is-the-first-classic-youll-read-to-your#notes 18 comments books
- White supremacist from Lincoln sentenced to read Jane Eyre and other classic novels https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln-news/white-supremacist-lincoln-sentenced-read-5854318 649 comments nottheonion
- House Intelligence chairman says transcript reads like a "classic mob shakedown" https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-impeachment-inquiry-09-25-2019/h_a968fe82b98e9d1ddc826804b6c61bd6 6 comments politics
- GQ magazine puts Bible on list of classic books not worth reading https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/04/23/gq-magazine-puts-bible-list-classic-books-not-worth-reading/541325002/ 6 comments books
- An incomplete list of classic papers every Software Architect should read http://valbonneconsulting.wordpress.com/2014/06/09/an-incomplete-list-of-classic-papers-every-software-architect-should-read/ 7 comments compsci
- Books that deserve to be banned - some classics are painful enough to ruin reading forever http://www.salon.com/books/story/index.html?story=/books/2011/09/28/books_which_deserve_banning 6 comments books
- 61 reasons for reading David Friedman's The Machinery of Freedom -- the classic book on anarchocapitalism http://www.elzr.com/articles/2006/11/05/the-machinery-of-freedom 4 comments reddit.com
- I made a website where you can read classic short stories that are out of copyright , for free. Feedback appreciated, incl requests for stories to upload. https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/ 24 comments sideproject
- William James on our blindness to the inner lives of others – a classic reading from “On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings” https://thedailyidea.org/william-james-on-a-certain-blindness-reading/ 68 comments philosophy
- Reading classic books to selftaught or watch online course like mooc ,which do you think is more effective? https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/abljwc/reading_classic_books_to_selftaught_or_watch/ 3 comments learnprogramming
- The best introduction I've found: Squashed Philosophy, classic works abridged to be read in half an hour. http://sqapo.com/chronology.htm 14 comments philosophy
- Hollywood friends take part in charity reading of Roald Dahl’s classic “James and the Giant Peach”. https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-james-and-the-gian/lockdown-story-time-roald-dahl-with-streep-cumberbatch-and-more-idukkbn22u1vs 3 comments worldnews
- How George W Bush helped create housing crisis...classic article and must read. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/business/21admin.html 17 comments reddit.com
- Think you know everything about football? You are the ref: Classic cartoon strip of football based questions. Read all these and you'll be better than Pierluigi Colina http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/aug/27/you-are-the-ref-trevillion 9 comments soccer
- Did you know you can download thousands of free audiobooks from Librivox? Here is a list of 50 more popular free classic audiobooks. Librivox is a site where you can download recordings of books that are in the public domain read by volunteers. None 4 comments books
- At 73, P. V. Chinnathambi runs one of the loneliest libraries in the forested wilderness of Kerala’s Idukki district. Its 160-books — all classics — are regularly borrowed, read, and returned by poor, Muthavan Adivasis https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/the-wilderness-library/ 13 comments india
- [Ham] According to assistant Jesse Mermuys, Kings trying to get a look at other players. Organization made the decision not to play Harry Giles this week, although he’ll be around the team. Nothing to read into his absence at Cal Classic. https://twitter.com/james_hamnbcs/status/1144779421791821824?s=19 26 comments nba
- Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail? (Rolling Stone Magazine, 2011) | Classic must-read article and extremely topical - How the ultra wealthy get away with trillion dollar crimes by regulatory capture and bribes https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/why-isnt-wall-street-in-jail-179414/ 7 comments politics
- Writing for the minority, Scalia was joined by three liberal justices. But his 11-minute oral statement - a departure from the usual practice in which only the majority opinion is read aloud - was classic Scalia. It relied on his "originalist" interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/03/us-usa-court-scalia-analysis-idusbre95211y20130603?feedtype=rss&feedname=topnews&utm_source=feedly 4 comments politics
- 25 Things I Learned From Opening A Bookstore --- "If someone comes in and asks where to find the historical fiction, they're not looking for classics, they want the romance section. If someone comes in and says they read a little of everything, they also want the romance section" http://open.salon.com/blog/jlsathre/2012/01/11/25_things_i_learned_from_opening_a_bookstore 117 comments business