What's So Great about the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You) In this powerful

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What's So Great about the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature (Even Though It Might Destroy You) In this powerfulA popular novelist and literary blogger answers those who claim the classics are too difficult, too problematic, and too white and explains what we gain by reading them When she was in her early twenties, then aspiring writer Naomi Kanakia set out to read the Great Books humankind's most highly regarded literary classics, representing "the best that human beings have thought or said," as determined by the two elderly intellectuals who'd written the