#i rly wanna read war and peace too... i do love a good brick and ive seen bits of the bbc series and its very good | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

creeperthescamp · 2 years ago

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when you start reading (listening to audiobooks) classic books for fun without the shadow of high school and the pressure to bullshit an essay and you are free to ponder the themes and narratives and language of those books at your own pace and can finally understand that goddamn that was a pretty good book and life is good actually

#martin posts #i just finished great expectations and now onto frankenstein! tis good!#i rly wanna read war and peace too... i do love a good brick and ive seen bits of the bbc series and its very good #i have seen also the pride and prejudice bbc miniseries which absolutely fucks hard and superior to the 2005 movie and i wanna read it too #im using spotify and theyve recently added audiobooks but only some of them are free but my sister showed me free audiobook podcasts #yeyeyeyeyeyeyeye very fun! i do like some 19th century shit! except for the racism and antisemitism and whatnot #i have to wonder how many people have been failed by education systems to find classics boring. well tbf the language takes getting used to

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