The count of monte cristo
Alice in wonderland
The wizard of oz
Robinson crosue
Around the world in 80 days
This year I went for classic, and even some classic children books. They were all good in their own manner, especially alice and Oz, had me baffled for words, how could children books be so so deep and get me into thinking loops.
Reading classics always come with set expectations for them to hold up, lot of them being mentioned in the sub all the time, they appear in other books, tv shows and random quotes. And for me I was still almost spoiler free from all of them, even Robinson Crusoe I thought is completely different story.
All of them I read in physical form, preferably second hand finding, the older, the better, except for Robinson Crusoe that was too difficult English, but with each of them I felt there’s a dusty story behind and lot of history, and all of them I passed on to different people, overall I would recommend all of them, maybe except for around the world which didn’t live to my expectations.
All also hold very well to the test of time, still felt relevant and except for some historical events were still pretty modern as most of them take place in imaginary settings that are mostly timeless, and since they focus a lot on characters and not scenery, only the language like I mentioned was difficult sometimes and some curse words like N word appeared often, and lot of mentions of god that relate more to different times.
I also I realized I’ve read 12 books this year, which might not sound like a lot to some, especially in this sub, and with some being short, but that’s still a lot for me, a slow reader.
Hope you all will have nice readings this year, currently I’m looking to read Peter Pan next, once I manage to find it, and I would love to get more classics recommendations!
by xSypRo