classics that are fun reads?

[Anonymous No.13964230]

what are some classics you genuinely enjoyed and didn't read for the /lit/ dick measuring competition? some Joyce is good but he has his slow points.

[Anonymous No.13964257]

You don't actually have to read anyhting you don't enjoy, especially if you're doing it just to impress autists on /lit/. Classics are supposed to be enjoyable, that's one of the main reasons for their status as such. Don't read if you don't enjoy reading. Come to terms with being a retard and carry on with your life, like so many have done before you, to no great detriment of their quality of life.
That said, maybe give Dead Souls by Gogol a go.

[Anonymous No.13964264]

I'm in a classical myth class right now, and we've been reading Ovid's Metamorphoses and it is quickly becoming one of if not my favorite book. Do yourself a favor and read it.

[Anonymous No.13964301]

Don Quixote
Count of Monte Cristo
Wuthering Heights
Pride & Prejudice
Berlin Alexanderplatz

[Anonymous No.13964386]

>>13964230
Before Adam(and call of the wild but I prefer this weird proto human story even more), Robinson Crusoe, Dracula, Journey to the Center of the Earth.

[Anonymous No.13964396]

I found The Betrothed gripped like a thriller, just gobbled my way through it. I've read a few Dickens where it's really slow and painful for the first 50 pages or so and then it turns into literary crack you can't out down

[Anonymous No.13964425]

>>13964230
Jane Austen books are always fun. They are anime-like. Tolstoy is fun as well.

>>13964386
Does Dracula count as a classic? If so, it is definitely fun.

[Anonymous No.13964443]

>>13964264
Can anyone recommend a translation?

[Anonymous No.13964475]

Most Stoic philosophy works like Epictetus, Aurelius and Seneca. Machiavelli discourses too

[Anonymous No.13964572]

>>13964443
We've been using Raeburn. It's used in the Penguin Classic edition and it's been fine. Decent introduction and good notes in the back.

[Anonymous No.13964587]

>>13964425
Dracula is a pretty cool novel. If you know a lot about vampire media but not much about the bram stoker book itself, then it can really subvert some of your expectations of the vampire. The narrative style is also quiet unique

[Anonymous No.13965335]

>>13964230
Herodotus was the most fun I ever had reading.

[Anonymous No.13965347]

[Anonymous No.13965363]

>>13964230
Some of Tolstoys shorter stuff - The Cossacks/Hadji Murat/Sebastopol Sketches
I enjoyed a lot of Anna Karenina and War and Peace as well but there were sections I had to slog through which I guess is inevitable in such long novels

[Anonymous No.13965378]

>>13964443
golding

[Anonymous No.13965470]

>>13965347
God, what were they thinking with that cover?

[Anonymous No.13965510]

>>13964257
this is a highly guarded secret
please do not share this with anyone ever again
thank you

[Anonymous No.13965603]

>>13965470
They were trying to market it as ‘edgy young guy who just don’t give a fuck’
Which is accurate I suppose. But a 19th century Russian cavalry officer would have been much more /fa/ than that poser.

[Anonymous No.13965645]

>>13964425
>Jane Austen books are always fun. They are anime-like.
Elaborate

[Anonymous No.13966300]

>>13964230
Most of the ones I've read
Many classics have some good humor and the characters are regular, relatable people
The notion that classics are stale is held by people who never even tried reading any

[Anonymous No.13966309]

>>13965470
the Russians are operating on a level beyond our comprehension

[Anonymous No.13966317]

/lit/ hates The Stranger by Camus but it's comfy as fuck