Thinking ahead. I read quite a lot and most of them are modern classics and occasionally a classic, but last summer I decided to pick one really long daunting classic to read so that even if I don’t read any others that year, at least I’ve read one. It’s the perfect time for me because I do enjoy books like this but I’m doing a lit degree so reading them in the semester alongside all my uni reading is too much for my little brain.
Last year I went with Anna Karenina and ending up loving it. This year I’m thinking the Count of Monte Cristo or The Brothers Karamazov. Please vote for one of these or recommend me something else! Specifically looking for something long because I can read regular classics year round without being terrified of them lol
by JmoonlightD
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My wife the English teacher votes for the Count and suggests The Scarlet Letter
Even though the Count of Monte Cristo is long it is a fast read, so that is my vote!
The Idiot
The Count of Monte Cristo gets my vote
If you enjoy a good plot Monte Cristo, my biased opinion, however, would be The Brothers Karamazov as it is my favourite book of all time.
The Count of Monte Cristo is an AMAZING book! You have to read it. It is an amazing story of romance and revenge. I really liked the musical, too.
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.
I’ve read these and Lessing is an amazing writer.
Martha Quest (1952) is the second novel of British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing, and the first of the five-volume semi-autobiographical Children of Violence series, which traces Martha Quest’s life to middle age. The other volumes in The Children of Violence are A Proper Marriage (1954), A Ripple from the Storm (1958), Landlocked (1965), and The Four-Gated City (1969).