Ohh so interesting. For many classics i could for the life of me not remember their first line at all until you read them out loud. But there's a few, like Anna Karenina, that are burned into me and everytime I hear it I feel transported back into that book and the reading experience.

@theeconstantreader

Ай бұрын

And that’s why the Anna K one is a slay, she’s so memorable 💅🏻

Once upon a time a moo cow mooed is way at the “wtf was James Joyce on when he wrote that” tier

@theeconstantreader

Ай бұрын

That one’s pretty spicy, I like it!

Loved this video! Getting me excited for so many classics. Music could have been quieter, or gone, and I would have been good with that 😄

@theeconstantreader

Ай бұрын

Thank you for the feedback! I thought it might have been a little loud!

ill keep reading - my life

@theeconstantreader

Ай бұрын

No matter the first line, I will be reading regardless 😂

You are killing me smalls with switching the tier list colors. Tier list on tier list colors when?

@theeconstantreader

Ай бұрын

😂

👍

"Yeah, I'll keep reading" is what I keep telling myself to get through any of Dickens' ( 700-page!) books tbh (not the biggest fan, unpopular opinion I guess😅) One of my favorites is the opening of Orlando by Virginia Woolf: "He - for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it - was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters" (... and yet I was not prepared for what was to come) Also, The beautiful and damned by F.S. Fitzgerald: "In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically, at least, descended upon him". (and the opening life of the Iliad is incredible, wink wink), great video as always, I'll shut up now ahaha :)

@theeconstantreader

Ай бұрын

Omg I forgot about the first line of “Orlando!” Leave it to VW to come up with such a banger 😂

read Malazan pls

@theeconstantreader

Ай бұрын

Ooh I vaguely know what this is, I will look further into this (series? right?) 😝