I absolutely loved Invisible Man. It was required summer reading for an AP English class and I think I was the only one in the class who enjoyed it. Not many even cracked it open.
The Great Gatsby was a favorite; I think that was when I first started actively noticing what diction and syntax do in descriptions. I guess The Count of Monte Cristo is considered a classic? I read it in 7th grade and not only is the story appealing but every time I read it again I discover something new about characterization or plotcraft.
Classics, classics. I picked up Middlemarch and The Mayor of Casterbridge on my own and loved them. No big others come to mind; I don't think I've actually read very many.
I adore The Count of Monte Cristo with a mad passion - but only, I discovered, in the translation I grew up with. I'd never thought about it; this was The Version, how could there be another? Then I bought a smart new edition to replace my disintegrated old one - and it was a different translation, and unreadable. Like a favourite novel retold by another writer, sentence by sentence. Hateful...
The Great Gatsby was a favorite; I think that was when I first started actively noticing what diction and syntax do in descriptions. I guess The Count of Monte Cristo is considered a classic? I read it in 7th grade and not only is the story appealing but every time I read it again I discover something new about characterization or plotcraft.
Classics, classics. I picked up Middlemarch and The Mayor of Casterbridge on my own and loved them. No big others come to mind; I don't think I've actually read very many.
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