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#and trapped in the castle tbh and after that i skimmed quite a bit
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#here's some of the classics on that list i have beef with btw:
#i have tried to read A Confederacy of Dunces several times and it's funny but it's also so cringe and Ignatius is so obnoxious
#that i find it too difficult to finish like i just feel depressed and bad for everybody around him too much
#i tried reading Infinite Jest like a decade ago and i got like 200 pages in and i remember thinking it felt like
#such a slog the entire time because he's just so gd wordy and also i stopped liking DFW after i heard the abuse allegations against him
#frankenstein i didnt read that long ago but i just remember finding it so boring for some reason?? i feel i might need to read it again
#dracula ngl i feel like im cheating a bit saying ive completely read it because i loved the beginning and then HATED so much of the rest
#the characters were just so boring and melodramatic hahaha i just liked the part where jonathan was doing a travel diary
#and trapped in the castle tbh and after that i skimmed quite a bit
#i almost flipped my shit when i saw ender's game on there because I ALWAYS mix it up with ready player one by ernest cline
#which i bought the audiobook of a while back and hated every minute of it i dont think its good at all
#but it wasnt that so phew my faith in this list is somewhat restored
#i read most of the first game of thrones book and was disappointed tbh maybe because id seen the show already
#so i was like 'this feels almost exactly the same except worse?' because i'd been expecting it to give me more depth and insight
#into the characters but instead it felt exactly the same and i still didnt love any of the characters enough to feel attached to them
#also i am fully aware me not personally liking or vibing with a book doesnt mean it doesnt deserve to be considered great btw
#but i think if youre gonna be like me and force yourself to go through a bunch of lists like this very seriously then you also need to just
#let yourself be like 'yeah not for me' without feeling too bad about it sometimes too
#often times i dont particularly love the classics or 'important books' but at the same time
#i still feel like im getting more out of reading them than just grabbing the newest hyped up books that also dont do anything for me
#maybe not in a 'wow i loved reading this' way but in like a
#'i now have first-hand knowledge of this thing that is so influential / so frequently referenced'
#or 'this challenged me and i feel like i did a mental/emotional workout or gave me some new food for thought'
#or 'made me more aware of what gaps in my knowledge and reading skills and what my tastes are too'
#sort of way...
#it really just depends on what you're reading for and why and what you're hoping to get out of it a lot of the time maybe
#it's like the homework i give myself to go through these lists that i also intersperse with the stuff i read more just for fun
#p
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