From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   georgeorwell@email.com writes:   
      
   > 1.Pilgrim's Progress   
   > 2.Moby Dick   
   > 3.Paradise Lost   
   > 4.Faerie Queene   
   > 5.Life of Samuel Johnson   
   > 6.Pamela (Richardson)   
   > 7.Silas Marner   
   > 8.Ivanhoe   
   > 9.Don Quixote   
   > 10.Goethe's Faust   
   >   
   > And what exactly is this list, you ask. The ten most boring classics   
   > in the world.   
      
   I read _Moby Dick_, all the way thru, in highschool, and one fact in   
   it was so interesting that it has stuck with me thru 55 years:  If you   
   are hunting a whale from a boat, you must coil the rope attached to   
   the harpoon with exquisite care, because if it snags or tangles while   
   paying out, your boat will capsize.  Not useful, in this day & age,   
   but interesting.   
      
   I read _Paradise Lost_ in college, and wrote a lively essay on it   
   called "A Materialist Looks at Paradise Lost", but I don't remember   
   much of either.   
      
   I have escaped the other eight.   
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