Thread: "The Most Boring Book" I read or tried to read
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Old 12-31-2023, 07:50 AM   #357
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
That list is dreadful. There needs to be current/modern books and not just a list a dead authors from a time that has nothing to do with the here and now.
The point of St. John's is a classical education; that's what the students go there for. Why not? All schools don't have to be everything to everyone. And I'd dispute, strenuously, that the western canon has nothing to do with the here and now.
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