Tuesday_Yaseotoko Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Gentle readers, Sadly, I have CDO - which is like OCD - but with all of the letters in the correct alphabetical order - the way they should be! One tell-tale symptom is that many years ago I set myself the task of reading all of the [Penguin] classics in chronological order. Short story long - I started at the epic of Gilgamesh ~3000 BC and am currently working my way through the Complete works of Aristotle, ~384 BC having before read every major classic in between: Plato, Aristophones, Homer, Aristophanes, Sophocles, Xenophon, Herodatus, Hindu Myths, Gathas of Zaroaster, The Bible, etc. Am I the only tragic bookworm with such a compulsive affliction/addiction - or are there other CDOs out there too? Please advise.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Oh, wow! What a challenge! I'm not so CDO as you are, although pretty much everything that can be alphabetised in my flat has been aranged so. I did consider doing a decades challenge where I read a classic from each year in any given decade in the order they were published, though at present I don't have time to dedicate mhyself to that challenge, it's one I plan to do at some point. Would that count? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Andrea~ Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Gentle readers, Sadly, I have CDO - which is like OCD - but with all of the letters in the correct alphabetical order - the way they should be! Lol - that made me laugh. Seriously - good luck. That's quite a challenge - but I'm sure it will be very rewarding. There'll be some great books in there, as well as some very obscure less interesting ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 I'm awestruck - I simply can't imagine doing this! Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuesday_Yaseotoko Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 Oh, wow! What a challenge! I'm not so CDO as you are, although pretty much everything that can be alphabetised in my flat has been aranged so. I did consider doing a decades challenge where I read a classic from each year in any given decade in the order they were published, though at present I don't have time to dedicate mhyself to that challenge, it's one I plan to do at some point. Would that count? Of course it counts! I like to see how things develop - what comes after what, what might have influenced what. So reading over a year or decade is a bit like that too. Enjoy it - but watch out that you don't catch CDO! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuesday_Yaseotoko Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 Lol - that made me laugh.Seriously - good luck. That's quite a challenge - but I'm sure it will be very rewarding. There'll be some great books in there, as well as some very obscure less interesting ones. It is quite a challenge - some works by Xenophon, for instance were so obscure and out of print that I had to order second hand copies from remote bookstores across the globe. Demosthenes - whom I am reading after Aristotle - looks like my bookseller Rosy and I will have to track down using a pith helmet and torch! Something out of print in America - but we will get our orations or bust! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuesday_Yaseotoko Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 I'm awestruck - I simply can't imagine doing this! Good luck! I'm more to be pitied than inspire awe. But as they say about Mount Everest - why do I do it? Because they're there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceinwenn Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Really, I would expect someone with CDO to read the classics in Alphabetical order! :thud:Now there's a challenge! Seriously, though, best of luck with that! Definately know that's one challenge I wouldn't be up for! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueK Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Wow Tuesday, I really have to applaud you - very commendable - and that is a "mountain" of literature, as you say. The question is though, are you enjoying the books? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Mines Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 What—what, I ask!—are you going to do if a work is discovered and published but dates to a year preceding your position on the reading timeline? The answer should be obvious: a true CDO will go right back to the epic of Gilgamesh and start all over again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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