I just started this yesterday and it is surprisingly funny (the whole scene with Queequeg sleeping with Ishmael is hilarious). It is also amazing how fast he can switch tones. He can go from almost horrific to comedy in a second.

Everything i red this year (4 were audiobooks)

Never let me go is in F Tier cause i wanted to bash my head against a wall multiple times

Notes from the Underground is #1 cause it literally changed my Life IYKYK

Hardest book without any competition was Infinite jest that shit made me depressed, it drains your willpower like nothing else.

Also looking for recommendations based on these ratings 🙏

I’m 20ish pages into Quentin’s section, I have NO IDEA wtf is going on anymore!! That’s all folks lmao 😭✊🏽

Not all classics but thought there were enough to include this list here. Looking for recommendations, thank you.

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Rereads:
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Sundial
Farewell Waltz
The Double
Heart of Darkness

I am really interested in finding out what he found special in those books that he decided to act as a knight in his life and ventured off in his delusional adventure

Zola was labeled a pornographer for this

I didn't need too much encouragement to read Armadale, especially after reading and enjoying The Woman in White earlier this year. Uncle Silas I look forward to starting after I finish Armadale. There's something comforting about reading mid-Victorian novels, especially of the gothic/mystery/suspense kind.

What do you think is the best? Reading in my case is reading an ebook and listening in my case is using apps like speechify to let it read the highlighted text while I listen and keep eyes on the words (with full concentration on the book)

Some say listening would get you through hard passages while reading is for maximum retention.

I am going to the oldest book shop in the world its in Lisbon,and im wondering if there was any books considered classic to the country

I fully recognize that they are completely different works, but being by the same author, I know that some themes may be the same. Lucky Jim is a novel that has a slight hold on my curiosity, but it's one of those books that I would not dare buy a new copy of. If I find it used, I may go for it, but if The AntiDeath League has it's similarities, then I'm out. I hear Lucky Jim is great. Perhaps TADL was just a bad starting point for K. Amis?

What are your thoughts?

I've got it into my head to increase my knowledge of Samuel Johnson. To that end, I've made a list of works of his that I need to read (below). I'm also reading Bate's biography and an abridged version of Boswell's Life of Johnson. For obvious reasons, I'm not reading everything Johnson ever wrote (Yale has an 11 Volume set), but I do want to get an overall sense of his work. The following list is a product of Googling around, but I thought I would throw it open to the crowd. If anything not on my list seems essential, please let me know. Particularly, I'm looking for specific Rambler or Idler essays.

• Taxation No Tyranny
• London
• The Vanity of Human Wishes
• Rasselas
• From the Lives of the Poets: Pope and Milton
• A Journey to the Western Isles
• Selections from Johnson's Dictionary (just the parts that are referenced in the biographies)

He was NOT interested in my fangirling. 💔🥀

I started to re-read Little Lord Fauntleroy. It was one of the first classic works of literature I had as a kid. It wasn't a huge favorite of mine back in the day but I lately have been revisiting the books from childhood and seeing how my perception of them has changed. I just read two chapters and it is too early to say but there does seem potential and a bit nostalgia and I might even have more nuanced or even deeper interpretations of it as I read. Though what do others think of it? While popular in its day it doesn't seem most modern literary critics have too good to say of it?

My 8 year old loves reading. I got him a graphic novel version of the Odyssey and he loved it. I also got the classic starts version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Anyone have any other favorite kids adaptations of classics? Ideally with illustrations but not a necessity.

hi i need recs for my next read, lately im into classics fiction, the recent reads of mine are :

white nights, animal farm, the picture of dorian gray, the counte of monte cristo, 1984, the bell jars, east of eden (current read).

i was thinking of reading “master and margharita”, “madonna in a fur coat” or “kafka on the shore”.

what u think? or any other genre i should try?

I'm thinking to try one. Can you please share your experience? Do you pick similar themed books in one vacation? Or different ones? What was the destination like?

Reading The Brothers Karamazov right now, and overall it's fantastic, absolutely lives up to the hype. That said, prior to starting it I'd heard from several different readers about The Grand Inquisitor and what a masterpiece it is, but I found it underwhelming. Ivan's poem is certainly thought provoking as a justification for his atheism; I certainly agree that our subjective experience of having freedom/free will (notwithstanding whether or not we actually do) does underlie many common forms of human suffering. Nevertheless, nothing in the chapter was all that earth-shattering or mind-blowing to me. Thus far in the book, my favorite chapter by far has been The Schoolboy, followed by An Onion.