/lit/ - Literature

>dad asks for book recommendation
>suggest Fathers and Sons
>tell him it's Turgenev's masterpiece
>dad likes Russian lit so seems like good suggestion
>next day ask how he's liking it
>laughs and tells me what an idiot this Bazarov guy is
>doesn't understand what's so good about a novel with some nihilist edgelord and how this is a masterpiece
>finds the English obsessed uncle pretty funny
>pass by living room couple days later
>dad just sitting on sofa staring into space with book closed next to him
>ask if he finished it
>says yeah but still spaced out
>ask what he thought of it
>"That was rough"
>iknowyoufeeldatfeel.gif
>leave him in peace because I know how sad I felt when I finished it
>feel closer knowing dad's not just a hard ass and reacts to kino literature same as me

Also cried at Mayor of Casterbridge, Oblomov and that Zola book about the laundress I can't remember the name of right now. I once made the mistake of reading Death of Ivan Ilyich on a coach coming back from a trip after having just finished Brave New World the day before. Qt next to me kept trying real hard to flirt with me, resting her legs on my knees and trying to be all seductive but I was too depressed about the events of the book to care. She was mental anyway so no ragrets.