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steampunkunicorn01 t1_j6pca88 wrote

Reply to comment by ConcernedMoralist in Classic literature that’s also very readable. by MinxyMyrnaMinkoff

Same, there is so much more to a story than just the barebones plot. Getting not only the little details that would otherwise be skipped, but also an insight into the author's thoughts (Les Mis is more essay than book, so it does the latter especially well) makes for feeling like one has entered into that time

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BeckAlexanderTheGr8 t1_j6pbx7w wrote

Reply to Classic literature that’s also very readable. by MinxyMyrnaMinkoff

Ira Levin - A Kiss Before Dying Anything Gogol / Dostoyevsky Streetcar, Glass Menagerie - by Tennessee Williams Ethan Frome - by Edith Warton F Scott Fitzgerald - The Beautiful & Damned Clarice Lispector - Hour of the Star Emile Zola - Thèrèse Raquin Joan Didion - Play it as it Lays Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master & Margarita Jack Kerouac - Big Sur Amerika- by Franz Kafka

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greenhouse5 t1_j6pb1iz wrote

Reply to audiobooks by eutychiia

Love them. I can listen while doing things that aren’t interesting and the time flies by

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JaksWastedLife OP t1_j6pafda wrote

Reply to comment by Jack-Campin in The Library at Mount Char was not a fun read for me [review] by JaksWastedLife

I’d be more concerned about an author ruminating over all the different ways to murder children in his book than one that has been trained to use a firearm responsibility. Moreover, an author should at least be familiar with how guns function if they’re going to include them in a book.

Aside from the questionable combat tactics described in the novel, there is a scene where he describes a gun sliding back to reveal an empty chamber without a shot actually being fired. This would be impossible because it is the force of a bullet being fired that causes the recoil/slide action.

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Apple22Over7 t1_j6p9xmm wrote

Reply to comment by Thornescape in audiobooks by eutychiia

Yes, this. Audiobooks are definitely not for me personally, but that's just me. If other people use and enjoy audiobooks, then that's great! It has no bearing on my own reading, it really doesn't matter to me one jot. And more people reading is always better, regardless of the format.

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