[firefoxd]

Also, if you are just getting started then read easy books. You know the 100 classics from highschool. And you after you finish a book, you can find some great analysis of those books online.

One thing I learned is often when you are excited about those easy books, voracious readers are quick to tell you how much the book sucks. "Read this by an obscure author instead". Ignore that until you have read a whole lot of books in your list.

[stevenwoo]

I’m doing something similar though some of these 100 classics are going to be a bit difficult for those with shorter attention spans, Austen and Dickens come to mind as requiring a high level of attention from me to keep track of all the self referential clauses, also with Homer, for those of us out of school for a long time, Stephen Fry’s four book overview of the underlying myths give a necessary background to fully appreciate Homer. I find for many of the classics I have to reference Wikipedia to understand the historical contexts and some of the archaic practices.