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

[beaucadeau]

I'm trying to read more classic literature and re-read books that I read almost...wow, almost twenty years ago.

I need to finish re-reading Anne of Green Gables, but then I want to read The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

[ahkna]

I've been thinking of going back to a bunch of stuff I read while at university because there was so much to read that it was mostly skimming.

[beaucadeau]

Okay but for real though, that's a great idea. I read a couple of books from my undergrad recently and they were fantastic, and I hardly remembered them.

[catd94]

I loveeee Anne of Green Gables

[veracity]

I don't read many classics but I try a few per year. Personally, I rec...

- Passing by Nella Larson
- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
- Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos

I've read those in the past few years and really enjoyed the writing. Easily read, not overly flowery, consistent story/plot arcs.

[thebadunkadunk]

I couldn't get into Jane Eyre. Same with Pride & Prejudice. All the classics I read for high school I could appreciate on an intellectual level but not something I would read on my own time. I do want to reread Count of Monte Cristo (abridged sorry) and Tale of Two Cities to see how they hold up because I remember liking them.

Reading through the list, I loathed Through the Looking Glass

[lurkymclurkson]

I picked Persuasion by Jane Austen as my book club's November pick. I've just started reading it (only at chapter 3), and it's taking a while for me to get used to the way of speaking and the annotations are a bit annoying having to flick back and forth, but I think i'll enjoy the journey in the end.

[angriest_girl]

I don’t read them anymore, but I have read a lot of classics because I studied Literature in high school and uni. And in the olden days at school we had to read tons of classics in English and then talk about them until the end of time.

I’m not sure I would call that many of them fun - though I do remember laughing a lot through Catch 22, and I have a fondness for the short stories of Oscar Wilde.

I love A Confederacy of Dunces.

Brideshead Revisited is very witty and accessible.

True Grit was a lot funnier than I expected it to be.

[amsiebames]

I loved Confederacy of Dunces!