Great books

on the lines of the previous thread by someone…great post btw.
Has anybody ever read the classics?

iliad, odyssey, don quixiote, the republic, decline of the roman empire, the inferno?

i love to read. mostly history and biographies. but i feel that no matter how many books i’ve read, as long as i haven’t read the ‘classics’, i’m still not well read.

what constitutes being ‘well-read’

i wanna be a snob. help me out. if i were to read:

1 biography
1 epic
1 historical account

which 3 books should i read? ideally i’d love to hear from people who has actually read the books.
currently i’m working through 3 but am close to completing them

1 biography - winston churchill
1 epic - romance of the three kingdoms
1 historical account - the neanderthal enigma

why 3 at time? just like flipping channels. there aer dry spots in every book. small break only serves to revive interest.

thanks
pep

i don’t usually like the biography/historical account genre, but enjoyed reading the book Roots by Haley(?) a while back.

Closing duplicate thread.