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[seektheinfinite]

So many books, not enough time. It seems like everyone is posting book lists, or book recs right now, and my list of things to read is growing increasingly by the day. At the moment I'm stuck reading books for Uni. So far I've read

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[hugglewolf]

Ahhh...warmth. It's amazing how much we take central heating and stuff for granted. Glad you're all snuggly again!

Heart of Darkness..is that the one with the English guy going into the jungle?

[seektheinfinite]

It is, I'm about 20 pages in and still have no idea what is going on.

[hugglewolf]

See I always feel obligated to at least try and read these books, like Austen, Dickens, Salinger, even though my tastes run more to the lines of King, Eddings, Peters, etc. But then I get maybe a few pages in (Dickens' Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol being the only exceptions) and it's such a chore. I don't know why. :(

[seektheinfinite]

I know the feeling, the amount of times that I have tried and failed to read one of the classics. Although I have to admit that I am glad that I have been made to read these ones, the only one so far that I haven't like has been Heart of Darkness, I'm hoping that it might inspire me to read more of the classics.

[j_apollo]

I have an irrational hatred of Heart of Darkness thanks to the way one of my teachers summarised the book. I do plan to read it so that I can actually hate it on it's own merits.

The main issue my teacher had with it was that it was written in the colonial era and it depicted the native people of Africa to be savages.

[seektheinfinite]

Yeah, it's really not worth reading. I had no idea what was going on, it just seemed to switch from one narrator to the other at will, and as you say the native African people were made out to be savages, actually they were made to be more animalistic than people