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Which of these books do you all enjoy the most?
#poll
Sense and Sensibility
Emma
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
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Anonymous 2w

secret 6th option, Middlemarch by George Eliot

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Anonymous 2w

I have yet to find a classic I like 🥲 tho full disclosure I was forced to read all these (except Emma) for school and didn’t finish a single one

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Anonymous 2w

I mean pride and prejudice is the only option here lol, generational masterpiece

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Anonymous 2w

The only classic I remember reading is middlemarch, and mostly bc my teacher in hs was deeply parasocial abt it ToT

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

I feel that, I never finished Wuthering Heights

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

Start with some short stories! If you jump into dense classical literature books blindly, you can start a novel you don’t appreciate or enjoy the writing style of. By reading the shorter works of classical literature authors you can see what their style is like before fully committing to a novel, I promise it helps.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 2w

That is sound advice and hopefully it works for some people, but unfortunately my problem isn’t with comprehension of the content but the content itself. Nothing seems to happen in classics and I find myself incredibly bored. There’re too many books on my tbr to spend a bunch of time on something im not enjoying. I will happily sit through Jordan or Tolkien describing a tree for six pages because action is happening elsewhere in the book, but haven’t found that to be the case with bronte

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