I am a scientist and work on various space stuff. The three body was a pure delight because it wasn't too far fetched. I started reading we are legion and could not finish it because it is just sooo fictional. The three body is just more realistic and thrilling. I hope you love it.

Hugo never stopped grieving the death (at 19, by drowning) of his daughter Léopoldine. These emotions inform Valjean's love for Cosette.

Use legal book apps. Look for used book sales or whatever the equivalent is in your country. Someone sells books. On um.... not official releases of books, avoid these unless you know the author supports you getting their content that way. Most don’t. Look for books in public domain where they are free online anyways.

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Nah. Sometimes a book doesn't have an intended deeper meaning. (though I maintain that you can always find some kind of meaning, some reflection of what the author believes or feels even if they're not actively trying to send a message)

But even for the books that do, finding that meaning can take not only a certain mindset, it often requires a certain set of knowledge. What do you know about the time period and culture that Alice was written in? What do certain aspects of the book mean within the context of that time and place? How does it compare to other children's books from that time? What does it do differently from those books? What was the author's life like and how might that have influenced the book?

Download away. Sounds like you've no alternative, & in that circumstance most authors would without doubt be pleased to have their writing read in any form.

Sorry about your parents. Fair dos to you though for having an open mind despite their closed ones.

How is J.M Cohens translation of Don Quixote?

I recently switched from my penguin clothbound version of Don Quixote which has John Rutherford’s translation to the MacMillan Collectors Library edition which has the J.M Cohen Translation.

I didn’t get very far at all into the story, maybe to chapter 3? But I found it very funny and was wondering how the Cohen translation compared and if I would lose out on any comedic moments

Dune is like ecology and history, while the Hainish Cycle is like sociology and anthropology.

“Anthropological”. Exactly! All the books in the Hainish cycle are explorations in world building and the implications of each society. I find them all so interesting. But my favorites are City of Illusions, The Telling. And Left Hand

Use an app, there are plenty of lending library apps. Don't steal.

Yeah might need to expand my ideas on what I want to read too

Oops, I think I meant to reply to your comment but I replied to the tier above yours.

sorry that I categorize it into just nonfiction but I couldn't list every single genre within nonfiction or make separate posts about every single individual genre within nonfiction also I do think there is one more thing you can learn from fiction, you can learn to write by reading more and more and if you aspire to be a fiction writer it will be near impossible to write without reading

Libby is only as good as your library's collection. I have cards at 4 libraries and some have much better selection than others. You also may be able to request your library purchase books through the Libby website.

Not a book but I had am English prof who claimed Top Gun was a "homosexual fantasy" movie and I checked out for the rest of the semester.

I can tell you, though, as an English teacher, that when you just read for reading’s sake, you often do miss the very clever and wildly entertaining deeper meanings and Easter eggs built into classic literature! But admittedly, some texts are beaten to death and people are truly reaching past the intended meaning because, yes, sometimes a red curtain is just a red curtain!! But there are so many books I love teaching because I know when I read them in school, I had no clue that the author buried this little nugget in there because of the time period and inability to be blunt about certain subjects, so they’d obfuscate! The Great Gatsby!! The Yellow Wallpaper! Of Mice and Men! The Hour! The Lottery! The Tell-Tale Heart! So many greats that deserve a deeper analysis or else we miss some really important aspects of them.

I mean, not controversial. It's that the translations aren't the best. And it's a love it or hate it deal.

>Lest we forget that Fogg marries an Indian woman in the original book, anyway!

Exactly! The changes made in the adaptation ensure that it keeps the same spirit, and relationship to today's social mores, as Jules Verne's original had in its own time.

Try the library. If your parents won't take you, your library probably has an ebook app you can use (in the English-speaking world, the most popular ones are Libby/Overdrive, Hoopla, and BorrowBox/Bolinda).

Very poorly developed

In my country, the libraries are 😬

Library and use your library card to get the Libby app.

Go to the library

I was talking about this comment in particular

Yes. It's more a romance fiction but still a fiction