<story><title>Harvard Classics Bookshelf</title><url>http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics_%28Bookshelf%29</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hugh3</author><text>I&apos;ve recently committed myself to reading all the books on that supposed &quot;BBC book list&quot; that has been floating around (largely as a facebook meme) recently.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fashionabroad.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/bbc-book-list-challenge/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://fashionabroad.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/bbc-book-list-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&apos;d already read 32 of &apos;em, but I&apos;m working my way through two more (Brideshead Revisited, which I&apos;m enjoying, and The Wasp Factory, which I&apos;m really not [and I don&apos;t think you&apos;re &lt;i&gt;supposed&lt;/i&gt; to]). There&apos;s some absolute crap on the list as well (Bridget Jones&apos; Diary? The Five People You Meet In Heaven?) but most of it is pretty good, and I think it&apos;ll expose me to a lot of good stuff that I wouldn&apos;t have read otherwise.</text></comment>
<story><title>Harvard Classics Bookshelf</title><url>http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics_%28Bookshelf%29</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>devindotcom</author><text>I&apos;ve got a few of these. Worth having, some of them, but they&apos;re not always the best translations or editions. Nice to dip into on short notice, but if you want to read any in full, better to pick up a newer edition or at least peep a few before committing to a bunk translation or poor annotation.</text></comment>