I read the first Ferrante and really liked it but somehow not enough to bother trying the rest.
There’s a lot of philosophy I’ve read a lot about but never tried actually reading because it seems quite daunting - though usually it’s not (like the Greeks) or it’s just sort of staccato and annoying (like Nietzsche or Kierkegaard).
I think sometimes the philosophy stuff is so entrenched in other reading - especially if you read a lot and you see the same ideas come up a lot - that the actual original version of it feels quite stale? (Maybe not?!)
Yeah definitely though I think actually reading it is good because you realize you’ve picked up a lot of other people’s ideas about something and often they’re not actually how you react to it
NO JANE AUSTEN!!! This is an actual crime. They are honestly so good.
I've not read Ferrante either, nor Emily Bronte, nor Middlemarch (it's like my white whale that I start every now and then and never finish but Mill on the Floss slaps as the kids say)
I read the first Ferrante and really liked it but somehow not enough to bother trying the rest.
There’s a lot of philosophy I’ve read a lot about but never tried actually reading because it seems quite daunting - though usually it’s not (like the Greeks) or it’s just sort of staccato and annoying (like Nietzsche or Kierkegaard).
I think sometimes the philosophy stuff is so entrenched in other reading - especially if you read a lot and you see the same ideas come up a lot - that the actual original version of it feels quite stale? (Maybe not?!)
Yeah definitely though I think actually reading it is good because you realize you’ve picked up a lot of other people’s ideas about something and often they’re not actually how you react to it
NO JANE AUSTEN!!! This is an actual crime. They are honestly so good.
I've not read Ferrante either, nor Emily Bronte, nor Middlemarch (it's like my white whale that I start every now and then and never finish but Mill on the Floss slaps as the kids say)
Haha I knowwwwww. Maybe one day I will?? There’s just… more things to read! 😂
At least do Pride & Prejudice or Persuasion - they are a speedy read I swear! I beg!
I think in my mind I just have this (bad bad) idea that they’re going to be, like, chick lit romcom and that’s not my favourite. Hahaha
yeah they are more much social satire, especially P&P!