Don't remember that, but to be honest, is that such a bad thing?

I mean we had Roman's in the 30s writing shit about Roman's in 300BC writing about Greeks in 600BC.

It's how you get sentences in Latin that you translate, and then require a 20 minute English explanation to understand who to the how. This is how you get nerds.

Tarantino does this in film and people hail him as a god.

Like, no, he just watches a lot of movies.

I think crime and punishment is very readable and feels surprisingly modern, although it depends on the translation. I find the Constance Garnett translation very readable but not the p&v translation.

These aren’t as old but the catcher in the rye and Daphne du maurier are easier to understand

Yeah I was going to go wiki but I saw a new Yorker non deadwall article and figured that would be slightly more fun.

You could do the same to “the right to read anywhere” middle of a busy street? Maybe not.

ol Hidin’ Houdini, that rapscallion

The Maltese Falcon was a really really bad movie. But the long goodbye is probably the best noir detective movie ever made. I have really wanted to read it ever since I saw the film but haven't gotten around to it yet.

Ey...lemme borrow your phone a sec.

Death by wokeness.

Pretty close 13 years ago?

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I tried It two times and gave up. I only made it past ten pages both times. I’m not sure why because the movie was amazing.

I was surprised how modern a lot of Dostoyevski seemed. Take out the long names, and so much of his prose is quippy enough to fit right in with contemporary lit.

Woman in White by Wilkie Collins is a page turner.

I'm a huge scifi nut, and your first line has me in stitches!

I died 37 years ago, during the Regan administration, due to a mishap involving cocaine, a bowling pin, a bowl of sukiyaki and one of those little paddle boats that's shaped like a swan. One moment I was on top of the 80's, and the next I was unable to do any more drugs and could only communicate thru my Cellular Phone. Now, thanks to advances in technology, it's much easier for me to interact with the living. So, long story short, do more blow because when you die...you end up a ghost on reddit.

Ha that's what I said in my comment above. He spends his whole letter vindicating her and saving face.

Thank you!

I felt like The Count of Monte Cristo was an enjoyable, easy read.

Recently re-read that one and was astonished at how different it was from when I read it in h8gh school. I didn't care for it then, but I got a lot more out of it the second time around.

Thank you so much for posting. This is a very interesting read.

They were both very insufferable. She spends her entire letter basically reminiscing about him and vilifying the first wife. And he spends castigating Emily Hill and his praising the second wife, basically saving face.

They both would have done good to just burn the letters and keep their secrets to themselves.

That sounds nearly believable, but… I have a hard time believing any pets would be getting 100 million dollars if it were that easy to disrupt. Right? Like, people get very weird around money. Are you saying that those people’s families just happen to be very nice and not have any problem with the poodle getting all the money? Or just that the judge happened to think it was a reasonable use of the money.

This ties into something that a lot of people don't actually realize, a personal will is a incredibly weak legal document in many jurisdictions that only carries weight until somebody contests it. Lets say you are a perfectly mentally competent person but decide to leave your entire multi-million dollar fortune in a trust to take care of your poodle should you pass away because you don't particularly like your family. Your family can absolutely contest that decision, they don't even have to prove you were incompetent in any way, they can just say "its dumb to use all this money to care for a poodle, we are their kids, we want the money" and if a judge finds this to be a reasonable assertion they can just override your wishes. Any respect given to your wishes after you die are either due to the niceties of your family and friends respecting those wishes, or a judge deciding they are reasonable to follow.