Of those, Lolita. I would have never read it except it was required for a course I was taking. The first few chapters were torture, imho, but reading it was required so I plowed ahead and suddenly it took off and I couldn't put it down. To tell the truth, I have only read four on that list; my familiarity with the rest is through movies and/or critiques of them.
My favorite as opposed The Greatest...G.O.A.T. was undoubtedly a book mostly unheralded,now is The Little World of Don Camillo..after that Huck Finn..it gave my young mind the spark to try to write humorously or try anyway
Read his Wiki page🥴 man was a beast
I've read Gatsby,Hamlet even Lear War and Peace..tis good
@Rambler Would you say that the learnings you had gotten from the book were those that appealed to a 6 six year old? Benjamin Hoff read the book with the mind of an adult philosopher. So, what to you were the teachings of Pooh?
@sree251 It gave me a picture of a community of creatures with a variety of abilities and habits and living quarters. That was insightful to me at 6. It was charming to me and fun. I wouldn't overthink it.
@Rambler There is nothing insightful at age 6. What you saw in the picture was straight up depiction of reality. Overthinking comes later when you are screwed up as an adult. And that was what happened with Hoff. Tao of Pooh, my ass. It was the Tao of Hoff sold under the name of Pooh.
@0uijasFingers I don't have to read the book. Katy is obviously a lightweight when it comes to art, and I mean art in a serious sense. Who cares if it was a woman who drew the Mona Lisa?
@sree251 The book only builds on the work of Linda Nochlin and her iconic 1971 essay 'Why Have There Been Great Women Artists'. My bet is that the publisher of Hessel's book wanted that title. There's even been a Germaine Geer response to the essay. PersonalIy, like Whitney Chadwick’s 'Women, Art, and Society'.
