"too much crime and not enough punishment" he got sent to a penal colony in siberia⁉️⁉️⁉️

@dyip-vb1wl

16 күн бұрын

Ppl be saying anything to try to be “funny and quirky“ 😂

@strawberryorange3755

16 күн бұрын

I think they meant that he murdered 2 people and only got 8 years of penal servitude.

@bluecannibaleyes

16 күн бұрын

The vast majority of the book takes place before the punishment, though, so the crime to punishment ratio is rather lopsided. He doesn’t confess and get punished until the very end of the book. The book is more like a little bit of crime, a little bit of punishment, and hundreds of pages of brooding about it in between. And I’m saying this as someone who liked Crime and Punishment. The guy had a point. 😅

@jaydenribera4511

15 күн бұрын

@@bluecannibaleyes The "punishment" of the book has nothing to with a legal punishment lmao. How do you like it and not understand the most basic concept of the book?

@gohtcheez

15 күн бұрын

@@bluecannibaleyesthe “brooding” IS the punishment … he literally spends the entire book in emotional and physical torment as a result of his actions ?!!!???

now the opposite: reacting to 5 star reviews of books you gave 1 star 🫶🏻

@RhiannonT01

16 күн бұрын

yes!!!

@sylvaindore3190

16 күн бұрын

Very good comment!

@KarlieStarrSings

16 күн бұрын

Me with any Colleen Hoover book

@xtinakeren5575

16 күн бұрын

Yessssss

@sashhhaa4874

16 күн бұрын

Yessss

My favorite one star review I've seen is one of Moby Dick that said reading the book was like getting cornered at a party by someone who wouldn't shut up about everything to do with whales, and when you lied and said you had to pee, they followed you into the bathroom and peered over the edge of the stall while continuing to blather on about whales. That review convinced me to buy the book.

@KarlieStarrSings

16 күн бұрын

Isn't that the review where it starts off with a quote from The Simpsons??😂

@lieved530

16 күн бұрын

@@KarlieStarrSings It isn't actually, but I just went to Goodreads to find the Simpsons one and that's a pretty good one too lmao

@ninakrishnamurthy6674

15 күн бұрын

To be fair, I’ve read Moby Dick. Only half the book is actual plot; the rest is whaling trivia. I love classic literature, BTW; I just didn’t love Moby Dick

@Theomite

5 күн бұрын

This is the greatest defense of _Moby-Dick_ I have ever read.

@SR-zp4je

3 күн бұрын

Currently reading Moby Dick, mostly because of that one scene in Star Trek First Contact, and can confirm, that is exactly what it’s like.

“needs more smut” followed by jack saying “IS NOTHING SACRED” is soooo funny

@js66613

15 күн бұрын

It's also a bit funny coming from him after he mentioned having plenty of books that were just women's ramblings with some sex in the middle.

“just a bunch of people going to each other’s houses” hahahaha that made me cackle

@sassycatz4470

16 күн бұрын

It's true, but that's what they did for entertainment.

@heather9130

16 күн бұрын

That's what makes it such a cozy read to me! I want to relax on a settee and hear all the latest gossip.

@bartholomew887

12 күн бұрын

SAME

@disab4649

11 күн бұрын

Literary genius is writing a book about a bunch och people going to each other's houses and making me care this much about it.

@k49821

11 күн бұрын

Literally all of Jane Austen's books tho 😂

“huge spoilers on the first page” that’s the POINT JENNIFER

tropification has given us all brainrot lmaoooo

@rachel5399

15 күн бұрын

Could not agree more! "Enemies to lovers," "friends to lovers," "grumpy x sunshine," "spicy," SHUT UP PLEASE

"Goodreads looks like it was designed in 2006" And it hasn't been updated ever since.

saying THE ODYSSEY is generic and a "disgrace to the fantasy genre" when it is The Parent of adventure/fantasy books is WILDDDDD if you think it's generic, it's because you've read a ton of books that are the heirs of the odyssey's legacy

@58angieb

16 күн бұрын

Exactly!! what you just said! 😊

@carolb.3500

16 күн бұрын

@@58angieb it’s basically what Jack said about “On the road” too!! you may not like it, but it influenced many books that followed it

@daydreamingaboutbooks

6 күн бұрын

The Odyssey and the Iliad are so old that it was revolutionary to have that complex of characters! Writing is not the same today as it used to be

@aloudjane137

2 күн бұрын

omg yes come for the odyssey and I will come for you!

That Wuthering Heights review shows exactly how the romance and dark romance trends are messing with people('s expectations). Wuthering Heights is NOT a romance story, and their love absolutely does NOT redeem Heathcliff and Catherine. The whole story is basically a cautionary tale against obsessive and toxic love. Heathcliff is incredibly abusive, there is NOTHING romantic about this story. Just because it features people who say they are in love does NOT make it a romance, and there is no happy end or any sort of redemption.

@cassie2055

13 күн бұрын

thank you !!

@solairefan5420

12 күн бұрын

I love Wuthering Heights ESPECIALLY because all of the characters are so flawed. Funnily enough by hating them you basically take part in the cycle of suffering and resentment plaguing the lives of everyone in the book. I would argue the novel has a "happy" ending because (spoilers) Catherine and Hareton manage to break the cycle and put an end to the tragedy of Wuthering Heights once and for all.

@windy8544

11 күн бұрын

never read that but like a week ago i've seen a thread discussing why lolita is a bad romance book and i'm so confused

@purplelily7764

Күн бұрын

@@windy8544that’s insane. Do people not realize that some books exist to say something and not just entertain someone?

@LynnHermione

Күн бұрын

Holy moralizing batman. Its a story. If people think its romantic its romantic

"a book that was written 4000 years ago and is considered the pioneer of novels doesnt have the pacing, plot lines and fanfic-like dialogues im used to read from coleen hoover and booktok books, so its bad and you should not read it"

@SM-ky6pb

14 күн бұрын

I haven't even read The Odyssey yet but when I saw the review "it's a disgrace to fantasy novels" my jaw dropped cause wdym disgrace?? They're talking about it as if it's a modern book and not a book written centuries ago

@mariyamak

10 күн бұрын

Their teacher sold it to them wrong. They tried to make into a like a modern fantasy novel, so they expected something like the YA fantasies they have read and so, of course, the kid didn't find it to be that. Teacher's fault maybe.

months ago a girl in brazilian bookstagram commented "does it contain smut?" on a post about Les Miserables and I won't shut up about it, y'all are late to the party

@elysianemily

12 күн бұрын

she had to have said that as a joke because ain't no way 😭

@aaaacarolina

11 күн бұрын

@@elysianemily I wish😭 Nothing in the context made it look like a joke

I think one of the things about ‘red flag’ books is that it matters WHY you like. More than the fact that you do like it.

@mariyamak

10 күн бұрын

Right? I agree with Jack that Catcher in the Rye is a great depiction of teenage angst, but wouldn't want to touch an adult man who identifies - in his current adult life - with Holden Caulfield with a 10-foot pole

@mrsadfacepancake4338

10 күн бұрын

@@mariyamak this is exactly how i feel about adult men and rick and morty. like, enjoy the show, but the second you start feeling like you identify with rick and not seeing why that is a problem??? i would not like to associate with you Or lolita. read lolita, it's a fine book, but if you're reading it as a romance and not basically a horror, i am afraid of you (true story, knew a guy who was 18 reading lolita outside my classroom when i was 12. he memorized my mom's license plate and tried to show me a picture of himself in his underwear)

@mariyamak

10 күн бұрын

@@mrsadfacepancake4338 That is hella creepy. I hope your parent(s) or another adult reported him. Sorry you went through that! If anyone reads Lolita as a romance and "enjoys" it, straight off to some sort of confinement. But there are those who read Lolita as a romance and are mad at/dosgusted at Nabokov. That's just stupidity

@LynnHermione

Күн бұрын

People dont owe you an explantion of their likes

@jackdonohue7893

Күн бұрын

@@LynnHermionethat seems quite defensive

No but I was so confused at that person calling the Odyssey a fantasy book like it’s supposed to be a crown of thorn of roses or something

@rat-xo7mj

16 күн бұрын

I'M CRYING FRRR

@rat-xo7mj

16 күн бұрын

Rhys talmin and Odysseus (or whatever their names are)

When you talked about not liking a classic but still appreciating its value I was precisely thinking about "On the Road"! I really enjoyed in-class discussions about it but hated reading every single page.

@Youknowwhoyounopoo

3 күн бұрын

I have found my people!

I'm so sorry I take Jane Austen criticm very seriously ... y'all will start coughing in three days

@accordingtokarenb1360

16 күн бұрын

Same!

@58angieb

16 күн бұрын

They're incompetent readers! 😊

The comment about bringing Joyce back to life just to kill him again is honestly very valid

I'm such a snob that I know what book I won't like and if I spend money on something I think I'll like and I end up not enjoying it I'm gaslighting myself into thinking it's my new favourite book . An Aquarius is never wrong and I ain't made of money either

@athenaapostolidou1750

15 күн бұрын

Damn, feels like I just found my twin😂 i do exactly the same to myself and only a couple of times has this system failed me (I don't like to talk about it🙄) need i even say I'm an Aquarius too? 😂

@jointhejincult5425

13 күн бұрын

Library?

@nafsikaisbored

13 күн бұрын

@@jointhejincult5425 ''I'm such a snob'' is my opening phrase lmao . But truly I love owning a book because I usually re-read them and I think its more convenient if I own them

@nafsikaisbored

13 күн бұрын

@@athenaapostolidou1750 I fear it may also be the fact that we're greeks .

@athenaapostolidou1750

13 күн бұрын

@@nafsikaisbored ομγ τώρα το συνειδητοποίησα αχαχαχαχα σοκκ

i feel like some of these one star reviews were just people trying to be witty with one-liners like others do on letterboxd as a means to get likes and views. it’s never a full analysis on why they disliked it. i wonder if they actually took the time to read the book or came in with an open mind (because i see some of booktok find it trendy to hate on classics and only crave books that contain romance and spice). that being said, i know art is subjective and people are allowed to dislike a book that i might really enjoy, so therefore people are of course allowed to have different opinions on books

Our master has summoned us again

the person complaining abt needing more smut... i read this for english and the teacher pointed out all the freaky bits in the story while going thru it XDDD

The "not having to like classics" thing applies to me, but with movies. And I agree 100%.

This man does not sleep

Jack has returned from his hiatus of like two days! I'm saved!

“Not enough smut” in a review on Romeo and Juliet is literally so funny.

My kid read R&J in 8th grade and the class had to also watch scenes from the classic Zeffirelli film and Gnomeo and Juliet. Kid RANTED about the gnome version for DAYS. 🤣

@schoo9256

15 күн бұрын

What was his argument?

I’m beginning to think that Jack is secretly obsessed and runs the Spanish Love Deception fan club 🤔

Goodreads is savage fr. It’s so fun to read sm tho. Especially ones on famous ya like divergent and the selection

THIS NEEEEEDS to be a series

I could have watched this for another hour lol Please make more of these 1 star review readings!

nobody should be able to disrespect janey like that.

@anvee3901

5 күн бұрын

like that's my wife you're talking about..

Well, it's official. This is my go to feel good place on youtube. I love how Jack manages to be so entertaining in his videos and so delightful. The man has tons of charisma and sounds like he knows what he's talking about. Honestly listening to him, especially when he presents the books he loves, makes my reading appetite grow. Keep doing the good work sir!

"I used to have a brain, now I have a graveyard of memes" - I can't 😂

This is your friendly reminder to reread The Master and Margarita. My favorite book. Thank you :).😊

@milicadiy

16 күн бұрын

Yeah! It's such a great book ❤

The Colour Purple review was giving sexism. Can a mother not raise a child and simultaneously put her efforts into something else, like writing one of the world's greatest books?

What a special gem.... 2 videos in 1 week!!! Keep them coming, Jack! ❤️😁

LOLLLL: "writing it was a crime and reading it was a punishment!!" best book putdown Eva

“Now I have this graveyard of memes rattling around in my skull.” HAHAHAHA TRUER WORDS

I had to read Crime and Punishment for school and make a presentation on the characters, I couldn't finish it at the time, maybe because I was trying to read out of my grandma's old copy or because it was for school, but I ended up making like a comparison chart between that book and the count of montecristo, and got a good grade still. Same happened with 1984 in which I had to write an essay for a class called english culture, couldn't finish the book in time, so I made my essay instead about a documentary I saw on dictatorships and totalitarian governments on Netflix, related it to some concepts of the book of what I had managed to read, got a 99,2 out of 100.

Please can you do a part two? I’m such a fan of your videos! 👍

How does this man get handsomer and handsomer every single video?!?

I love how you normalize people's diverse reading opinions. I really appreciate that, Jack! ❤

recently I reread Emma by jane Austen because I was still haunted by my Literary stylistics teacher telling us how Emma is a beautifully written character that You can never understand until you master your major. I got my master's degree in Literature and Civilization and gave the book a second chance, I shall be dead if the character Emma have no hater. Edit: I understand y'all in the replies, but my teacher couldn't accept my critic to Emma's character and she insisted that her character is perfect and serves a purpose. For me her character has flaws that need to be corrected and disliked. + I enjoyed the comments, thank u for being nice.

@aventine95

16 күн бұрын

Emma can, quite frankly, suck my arse 😂 The book is definitely well written, the character is not the one 😅

@sakurabunnn_

16 күн бұрын

Yessss but for me I think the point of the story was that emma actually is such a flawed character and we were supposed to feel that way and that Mr. knightley, the only one who is openly critical of Emma which nobody including Emma is, is kinda like the voice of reason or the voice of the reader

@tungstenmouse

16 күн бұрын

That's a really weird take by your teacher. Austen clearly wrote Emma to be disliked. It's the whole plot of the book. She's not the worst but is definitely unlikeable.

@xJillie

16 күн бұрын

i’ve found that people either love Emma or hate her, and there is no in between. I personally love her and it’s my favorite Austen, but I get it lol

@abs6384pumpkin

16 күн бұрын

I think the point isn’t to love Emma blindly, but to understand her character as a flawed human being- like all of us.

Izzy wouldn’t button her cuffs and it gave me the ick and now I’m obsessed with keeping the cuffs unbuttoned

I just finished reading the catcher in rye and really enjoy it. Could not understand the reviews saying that Holden was just a brat, I thought he was just a very sad and depressed teenager struggling to process trauma. Anyways. Loved this video!

@ClaraCB5

16 күн бұрын

I have a theory that people who dislike the Catcher in the Rye completely missed the fact that he is a traumatised teenager. I love this book and will defend it until I die!

@bluecannibaleyes

16 күн бұрын

I would ask you to explain what the point was, why it didn’t have a plot, and why he smoked so many cigs, but I don’t have $5 to bribe you with. Then again, it is one I need to reread, as I read it back when I was a teenager. But I remember hating it back when I was an angsty depressed/emo teenager, so I never understand why so many people love it.

@tysonn4736

15 күн бұрын

@@bluecannibaleyes Maybe because Holden is also an angsty depressed/emo teenager?

@bluecannibaleyes

15 күн бұрын

@@tysonn4736 Well, that’s my point. People who were angsty teenagers always say that made him relatable to them as a teen, but I was kind of an angsty emo kid as a teen and I couldn’t relate to him at all. So I don’t ‘get’ it.

@tysonn4736

15 күн бұрын

@@bluecannibaleyes Sometimes a mirror being held up is embarrassing instead of authenticating. Sounds like it was embarrassing, in your case.

Great video! More people need to give classics a try imo. Lots of misconceptions and fear surrounding books that could change peoples life

The enemies to lover joke was epic 😭

going through a rough and new patch of my life right now and you and your channel and your cute background music makes it better. thanks jack

I tell myself that all this content from Jack this week is cuz it’s my birthday week 🥰

@Showtunediva

16 күн бұрын

Happy Birthday!

i’m honestly so glad i jumped ship from goodreads and got onto storygraph

I love the constant video posting❤❤❤

To Kill a Mockingbird was the first book I ever had to read in school that I genuinely loved. I used to separate “reading for fun” and “reading for school” into two diametrically opposed camps because the classic books I had to read in school were SO. DULL! To Kill a Mockingbird shocked me with how much I enjoyed it. I have since reread a lot of classics I had to read in high school and enjoyed them much more as an adult, particularly Shakespeare. To be honest, I feel like a lot of the literature that gets taught in high school (again, Shakespeare stands out; he’s raunchy as Hell!) aren’t really suited for teenagers.

We love the more uploads from Jack recently❤

this might be my fav book, the way you read those reviews *chefs kiss*

These are hilarious! You have to do more of these kind of videos! 😂😂😂

On the road is so much more than its context. It's so raw, melodic and poetic. Guess it's a matter of taste, but it's right there at the top of my favourite books of all time. Still, appreciate your dedication to the world of literature in all its forms. Kind regards from a fellow '98 baby.

favourite booktuber ✅ favourite comedian ✅✅

I read Moby Dick in 7th grade. I love reading classics, but that one will not be reread anytime soon. And yet, however hard classics may be to read, we read them and love them because their stories portray human nature in all of its messiness, and that is something that doesn't change even as millennia pass. It will always resonate with people and make them feel less alone.

@alexjames7144

16 күн бұрын

Moby dick is mainly bad because like 80% of it is an encyclopedia of whale references and blatantly wrong facts about whales. I can change him. Honestly think it would be massively improved just by editing it to around 15-20% of it's original size and it would only improve. It wouldn't lose anything of value, the only reason the bad whale facts are there is because at the time reading was frivolous and silly unless it had educational value, it's not like it's an artistic choice. Genuinely most classics, I think, would be made genuinely far better with some heavy editing. Editors weren't as big of a thing at the time and they didn't have the benefit of proper literary education so it's no suprise they're all overwritten. Anyone nowadays that said books are always better if you don't have an editor would call you an idiot (and rightly so) so I don't think it should be controversial to say that classical literature would be improved by some good editing.

@ninakrishnamurthy6674

15 күн бұрын

@@alexjames7144 I agree with you about Moby Dick, but I don’t agree that most classics would be improved by heavy editing. Jane Austin, Treasure Island, Dracula; these are all classics that I have read (in the same month as Moby Dick) and loved. They don’t need heavy editing; they’re exactly as long as they need to be. Hell, Dracula is recent enough that it actually reads more like a modern novel. I’d argue that it feels more modern than LOTR despite being 50 years older, though that may just be because of the epistolary format. (Not hating on LOTR, by the way; I just think that Bram Stoker’s writing style was ahead of its time) In Moby Dick, the story literally just STOPS for several chapters at a time of outdated whaling trivia. Which is a shame, because the actual plot is quite riveting in my opinion.

@alexjames7144

10 күн бұрын

@@ninakrishnamurthy6674 I don't think that every pre-1900 novel is absolutely terrible or needs to be edited to death. But they could all still have been improved by some editing. Jane Austen I will agree was very ahead of her time and doesn't need heavy revisions. Dracula I'd disagree on, but that's purely a stylistic problem. The format is only chosen because it was a popular way of telling a story at the time, but it's quite clear that you inherently undercut the suspense of a story by having it told via letters, by definition implying that at the very least the protagonists survived the adventure. Telling any story in retrospect does usually limit the suspense as the ordeal is already over at the point of being told. It's not the worst example of it though, Wuthering Heights is terrible for this and the russian doll of narrative voices gets very tedious and ruins any tension. I still enjoyed Dracula but I feel like it could have been far better if told via first person narration rather than via letters written after the fact.

@ninakrishnamurthy6674

10 күн бұрын

@@alexjames7144 Oh, I vehemently disagree on Dracula: the characters are writing the letters and journal entries DURING the story, so it doesn’t undercut the suspense at all for me. And when I say that Dracula feels very modern, it’s not JUST the epistolary format. It’s also the language used, the narrative style. I don’t really know how else to explain it. But when I read Dracula, it was the last book I read of a three-month long classic novel kick I was on, and it felt so much more similar to something that would be published today that it felt genuinely refreshing, and that may have colored my perspective on it

Entertaining as usual! Love you!

Thank you for recommending The Great Gatsby. I loved it.

Please make this a series! 🫶🏻🫶🏻

Jack saying "is nothing sacred ?" Killed me 😂😂😂😂

this feels like watching your descent into insanity and it's got me chuckling every other sentence

There are worst things that can happen to booktok lists than completely random books making their way onto them.

Tbh, this is me with kafka’s metamorphosis

your commentary this video had me actually chuckling

I’m convinced that anyone who calls the Odyssey boring hasn’t actually read it

Please do another!!!!! I loved every second of this video 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

Omg I was just waiting for a new video from you! I summoned this

2:41 these booktok gooners are CRAZY 💀

omg i watched this, i had literally just finished reading on the road and did not get the hype. your intro got me HOOKED.

I don’t care for Shakespeare. Midsummer’s night is the only one I care for.

PLEASE read 5 star reviews of the books you rated 1 star 😭😭🙏✨

nick carraway’s realization towards the end of the book: 4:26

@ninakrishnamurthy6674

15 күн бұрын

True LOL😂

I love Jane Austen so much ❤😊❤

@sakurabunnn_

16 күн бұрын

Sameeee what is your favorite book by her and why?💗

@ninakrishnamurthy6674

15 күн бұрын

@@sakurabunnn_I’ve only read Pride and Prejudice, but I absolutely love it. I need to read her other novels!

never stop this it’s so funny

Okay but for real, the person who questioned if they read Gatsby wrong makes me feel so seen. I have a literature degree and I am a teacher and like I get it but I don’t GET it…

@bluecannibaleyes

16 күн бұрын

Same. I never understood why people love that book so much. Granted, I read it way back in high school, but I remember thinking it was just a bunch of rich people without jobs going to parties all the time (which isn’t something I like or can relate to at all). And I absolutely couldn’t stand Daisy and didn’t see what Gatsby saw in her.

@58angieb

15 күн бұрын

TGG-a morality tale-the destructive,vacuous, never-ending pursuit of happiness,in the guise of 'The American Dream', & how when achieved it doesn't satisfy,the happiness is temporary, &,when it comes down to it,signifies nothing of any real value. Transient/Ethereal.? Materialistically Gatsby has it all, except the one 'thing' he really wants: Daisy. It's all 'froth'. That's what I took from reading TGG.

@58angieb

15 күн бұрын

TGG-a morality tale-the destructive,vacuous, never-ending pursuit of happiness,in the guise of 'The American Dream', & how when achieved it doesn't satisfy,the happiness is temporary, &,when it comes down to it,signifies nothing of any real value. Transient/Ethereal.? Materialistically Gatsby has it all, except the one 'thing' he really wants: Daisy. It's all 'froth'. That's what I took from reading TGG.

Someone asked me here for Filipino book recommendations: -Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista -Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay -Tall Story by Candy Gourlay - Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay -Dreamland by Jahric Lago and Cheska Mateo 🥰🥰🥰😍😍

@genericplantlife

4 күн бұрын

Would like to add: The Quiet Ones by Glenn Diaz. I'm reading it right now and could not put it down.

I like that filming angle😊

“This is a book that was supposedly written in three weeks. And it shows.” 😂

I agree with some of these (or at least I did when I was forced to read them in school) BUT I remember loving Catcher in the Rye so much and everyone in my class hated it and didn’t understand why I loved it - so I ended up going home and writing a rant/essay about what the book means and why it was so good, and my teacher made me recite it in front of the class because she was so glad someone “got” it 😅 But The Odyssey was ☠️ and I agree it was like wading in quicksand 😂

@bluecannibaleyes

16 күн бұрын

I didn't ‘get’ Catcher in the Rye but I kind of had a similar experience with The Scarlet Letter. It’s one of my favorite books of all time and everyone else in my class hated it intensely. I think I was the only person who even read it. To each their own, people will always have their own personal tastes. 😅

We need a part 2

Me being chill right up until The Little Prince comments come up like: "VENGEANCE WILL BE MINE!!!"

The editing on this is killing me great work

The reviews on Pride and Prejudice brought me back to my high school RAGE about that book 😂. It was assigned to us for English class and I remember absolutely hating every cursed second I spent reading it. It was literally the only English class novel I abandoned a quarter of the way through and just Sparknotes-ed for the book report. I hated every character, every scene, every line of dialogue. Up to that point I had never felt so much anger over a book. I never read Austen again after that 😂.

Man I felt so bad that I hated Kerouac, I feel better now.

yess love this

I agree with the first review of Wurthering Heights completely.

Jack describing Haruki Murakami's writing: "THE BOOBS WALKED INTO THE ROOM... THE NIPPLE WINKED AT ME." Pretty accurate tho. 🤣🤣🤣

I will be honest, I am not a huge fan of classic novels. Most of them have words and phrases that go over my head and I get frustrated with my lack of understanding. However, there have been a few rare classics I read for school that I enjoyed. I think the thing people don't realize about classics is that you don't have to inherently like them because they're classics. You don't enjoy every modern book you read, why should you expect differently of the classics. They are classics because they withstood the test of time, not because everyone enjoyed them. But I do think that everyone should give at least one or two of the classics a try. Pick ones that have interesting sounding plots. Ones that are maybe similar to your preferences in modern books. You might be surprised and end up enjoying them. My favorite classics are the fairytale collections such as the Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Anderson collections. There's something about classic fairytales that I just really love. Even if I don't always understand the language used in them.

That review in the thumbnail is such a vibe 😂

the thumbnail is so real though

One of the hardest things i learned in my uni english classes was that you don’t have to like a book but you should still try to find the Point of it and its significance not only in the story itself but also in historical context and impact. That’s not to say it doesn’t get FUCKING BORING though. Because it does

Ulysses by James Joyce is a novel of 'sounds' best when read aloud. RTE, on Radio relesed it on Audio some time ago. Its quite lengthy, as you can guess, but of great worth when attempting to read Ulysses.

I actually love that they just continually visit peoples houses in pride and prejudice 😂

this is jack's best edited video ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I had a book end up in the toilet once. It was set on the counter as I was washing my hands, and as I turned to grab the towel I knocked it in. I enjoyed the book though, and it still stands on my shelves as the book that survived the toilet. 🤣

Have you ever discussed Embassy Wife? I would love to see what you think of it

The "how do you say" in a french accent is actually from the cinematic masterpiece The Most Popular Girls in School.

Ok but that little prince review about trampling the flower made me laugh out loud and I still think it’s one of the best books ever written.