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

[spacemonkey_699]

I was a Lit major at uni so I had to read a few classics and, man, Jane Eyre was a fucking wild ride. I really enjoyed that one, same with Picture of Dorian Gray, and Fahrenheit 451. Fucking hhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaated Mrs Dalloway with an absolute passion.

[peachypearl]

I've been trying to get through Wuthering Heights for 5 years.

Also idk if Dracula is considered classic literature but I struggled to read it a few years ago and then I read it in one swift go last year lmao. It's quite good actually! But it literally took ages and agesssss for Lucy to die. Page after page after page. At a certain point I was yelling at the book to just kill her.

[benihime99]

Of mice and men
LOTR
Wide Sargasso Sea
Brave New World
The Iliad
P&P
The musketeers
The Door into Summer
Dune...

[helyanwe89]

Of Mice & Men is good. Read it in 9th grade & one of the few assigned books I thought was good. Movie was good too.

[anus]

The Picture of Dorian Gray is fun. He's such a dramatic little bitch.

[therearewords]

He is!

[ginainabottle]

i'm still chuckling at a tweet that had one of his pictures and said 'he would've loved the substance' lol

[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.