/lit/ - Literature

>you should never question the status of "classics" and just blindly worship all of them

I really like it but I am finding the story extremely difficult to follow without reading chapter summaries online.

Why do you feel compelled to push your hobby on someone else who clearly has no interest in it?

>shootin' the shit with a co-worker
>mention one of my hobbies is reading
>he says "oh I do some reading, but I mainly read magazines and news articles"
>tell him the last book I read was Moby Dick
>he replies "ah man I can't get into the classics, they're just too wordy, they use so many adjectives to describe things, it's hard for me to focus on them"
>mfw