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

[abbylover23]

I re-read Little Women this year and 😬 some of the religious stuff got tedious - I don’t remember it being so much when I was younger

I found P&P a bit of a trawl but Sense & Sensibility is an all time fave 💛

[butterflyblot]

I loved Les Miserables when I read it, but idk if I would ever read it again lmao

Not sure if Yukio Mishima is too modern to be considered a classic but Kinkaku-Ji was also beautiful

[ahkna]

I didn't expect The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton to be so funny or satirical and I ended up really enjoying it.

Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was amazing. You can see some of her eugenics beliefs in it, but it was really fascinating in its exploration of different types of misogyny and sexism. It doesn't feel like it was written it 1915.

[veracity]

I remember reading Herland in college for my women's lit class. Don't remember a lot but I do remember the catchy title.

[war_machine_rox]

I'm slowly reading Jane Eyre on and off and am enjoying it. Probably helps that the first adaptation of it I saw was the Toby Stephens one and I fell in love with him lol

True Grit is great. I gotta pick up Lonesome Dove again. The Three Musketeers is more funny than I thought it'd be. I love them.

[winter_lace]

brideshead revisited and picnic at hanging rock are two of my fave classics. I also loved count of monte cristo but I don’t think I would ever read it again because it’s hefty.