ONTD Book Post: Classics That Aren't Boring

[therearewords]

People tend to think of classics as being “boring,” but we wouldn’t keep reading them for hundreds of years if we didn’t love them.

Let me introduce you to some FUN classics: pic.twitter.com/VuJrJjzgm3
- Owl! at the Library 😴🧙‍♀️ (@SketchesbyBoze) April 22, 2024
- Plenty of people associate 'classic' with white male authors that navelgaze, but there'

Comments

[agnmag]

Love love love The Master and Margarita. Read it twice, and I think it’s time for another reread. Wonder how I’ll perceive it now that I’m older, what new I’ll find in it.

[kegarawashii]

Aw another M&M appreciator! I found that my age, or more like my irl worries that come with age, definitely affect how the book impacts me. As a teen, I would leaf through the Yeshua chapters to get to the Moscow stuff, but now they feel like the most important part of it all

[agnmag]

That’s actually so true! I remember when I read the book for the first time, I wanted to fast-forward to the Moscow parts and treated the Yoshua chapters as filler. But then when I read it a few years later, I was gripped by the atmosphere in the Yoshua chapters, it being dense, fraught, paralysing. Making me feel like I’m there, observing everything. Wonder what it’s going to be like the next time!

[5368f65]

One of the few compulsory books in school that I actually read. I'll re-read it, too.

[peachypearl]

Oh yes I did enjoy that book very much. I had a copy that had a section with footnotes at the back to explain things that are just too rooted in that time/society to understand if you weren't familiar with it and it was so interesting.

[yukimag]

late reply but I finally read M&M this summer while my life was in shambles and it was so perfect. Can't wait to re-read it one day!