As in: read 3 more books in German and 3 more in French, read one major work in Latin, read a major work in Greek and read 3 books of the Bible in Hebrew, as well as two medieval texts and one work by each of Jung and Freud (separate from the 3 German books).
That makes about 15 books for a challenge...if I threw in a few others and then left myself some "free" spots to read whatever I felt like at one time or other, then I could get to a 30-book challenge, which is far better for me than 50-book challenges given my time constraints.
Of course, the reader who loves a challenge in me is tempted to make the Greek book The Iliad, the Latin one Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Bible books Job, Isaiah and Daniel (the latter of course forcing me to exercise my Aramaic), pick Die Traumdeutung as the Freud work, Mysterio Coniunctionis as the Jung work, and La Divina Commedia as one of the medieval works.
That makes about 15 books for a challenge...if I threw in a few others and then left myself some "free" spots to read whatever I felt like at one time or other, then I could get to a 30-book challenge, which is far better for me than 50-book challenges given my time constraints.
Of course, the reader who loves a challenge in me is tempted to make the Greek book The Iliad, the Latin one Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Bible books Job, Isaiah and Daniel (the latter of course forcing me to exercise my Aramaic), pick Die Traumdeutung as the Freud work, Mysterio Coniunctionis as the Jung work, and La Divina Commedia as one of the medieval works.
La Divina Commedia is not all that difficult, at least in comparison to the others. Ovid might be a bit above me; the rest certainly is at the moment.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law
- 08/11/2011 08:05:32 AM
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Heh...
- 08/11/2011 01:34:17 PM
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It wasn't that negative
- 08/11/2011 05:05:56 PM
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Yes, he's a clearly step above Goodkind or Dan Brown.
- 08/11/2011 05:54:24 PM
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And a few steps down from Eco, Proust, Perec, and a few others I've read recently
- 08/11/2011 05:58:54 PM
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Certainly.
- 08/11/2011 06:21:15 PM
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More ambitious than mine! 
- 08/11/2011 06:42:17 PM
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- 08/11/2011 06:42:17 PM
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It might be hit and miss, but the hits would be worth it, if you ask me.
- 09/11/2011 08:37:16 PM
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I was thinking I could mix those different ideas, too
- 09/11/2011 08:38:20 PM
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Ha!
- 15/11/2011 06:05:50 AM
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Re: More ambitious than mine!
- 11/11/2011 11:55:57 PM
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- 11/11/2011 11:55:57 PM
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I'm not clear if you're trying to reference Dan Quayle or if you're really a complete moron.
- 14/11/2011 04:59:41 AM
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It wasn't explicitly negative,
- 08/11/2011 06:05:37 PM
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Like I said, I was addressing a split audience when I wrote it
- 08/11/2011 06:19:44 PM
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Re: Like I said, I was addressing a split audience when I wrote it
- 11/11/2011 11:52:07 PM
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