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[quote=Anonymous]Haven't read most of the above, but Crime and Punishment is a GREAT read. One of my favorites.

Frankenstein is a curiously structured novel -- a tale told by a side character that's contained within a letter from another side character -- so it takes a bit of patience at first, but there is a moment where the story just takes off, and from that point on it's great. It is a very different sort of story than I thought it was, far richer in themes and emotion than I realized, and I'm very glad I read it.

The Plague is good, and might be interesting in a post-pandemic lookback, but in terms of character/plot it's a looser story, more a descriptive study of society than a traditional tale (I read it in 2020, though).

Ibsen was surprisingly ahead of his time, and plays always make a quick, satisfying read (If you're interested in existential writing and open to plays, I might recommend Sartre's plays -- The Flies is so dramatic and incredible. He wrote it during the Nazi occupation of France about what was happening in real-time, just framed as as Greek tragedy to get through the sensors).

I had trouble getting through Heart of Darkness, tried multiple times, so if you do that, please tell me what I'm missing.  [/quote]

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