I'm re-reading "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton. My first reading of it was circa-eighth grade when I read every book ever and gnawed on a few more and I am beginning to really appreciate the value of rereading. I remember my having liked it a lot but I don't think I could have possibly appreciated how well written it is in any tangible way. I do remember its being among the "can't put it down.. I'll climb the tree later" variety which consisted of the upper-echelon of "loves it books" along with Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights.
This contrast is really only so stark if you are, as I am, a voracious reader who happens to be afflicted with the attention span of a meth-addled retarded hamster.
There are many many many books that I want to love and which are recommended to me highly (and haughtily) that I have to say lose my attention immediately. Zola, for instance, is a pretty painful read though interesting.
This book is very A.D.D. friendly. You're immersed instantly and don't feel that laborous sense of forcing yourself to read it for your personal erudition.
I'm a reader so I enjoy reading as a rule but this is just lush. I want to eat this book and poop it out all over the world... in rainbows of literacy and luff.
READ IT!
Other really readable novels that I endorse: The Unbearable Lightness of being by Kundera, The Lover by Duras, Vanity Fair by Thackery, Little Women and Little Men by Alcott, The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway, Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Laclos, The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Wilde, There are more but I'm sleepy.
I'll stop nerding out on you now.
This contrast is really only so stark if you are, as I am, a voracious reader who happens to be afflicted with the attention span of a meth-addled retarded hamster.
There are many many many books that I want to love and which are recommended to me highly (and haughtily) that I have to say lose my attention immediately. Zola, for instance, is a pretty painful read though interesting.
This book is very A.D.D. friendly. You're immersed instantly and don't feel that laborous sense of forcing yourself to read it for your personal erudition.
I'm a reader so I enjoy reading as a rule but this is just lush. I want to eat this book and poop it out all over the world... in rainbows of literacy and luff.
READ IT!
Other really readable novels that I endorse: The Unbearable Lightness of being by Kundera, The Lover by Duras, Vanity Fair by Thackery, Little Women and Little Men by Alcott, The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway, Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Laclos, The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Wilde, There are more but I'm sleepy.
I'll stop nerding out on you now.
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I had lit teachers that would poison us on the old classics and I am forever thankful!