Many people experience some shame or guilt when they dislike a literary classic.
Please don't.
I confess to enjoying Ernest Hemingway's short stories while finding his novels to be very hard going. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is another slog for me and yet, of course, many people love it.
Here's my list of some that I set aside but which I'll give a second chance:
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
On the other hand, I know people who cannot stand Moby-Dick and I'm in the process of re-reading it. Another re-read on my list is Bleak House.
Which classics have you set aside?
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