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Idk, Dickens and Melville are pretty hard to get through.
by tshaddox 1y ago
Idk, Dickens and Melville are pretty hard to get through.
- wink 1y agoTry Joyce as a non-native speaker :P
- IAmBroom 1y agoMy god.
- SilasX 1y agoIn the YouTube comments for the song "Informer" by Snow ("Informer, <lots of words>, a licky boom-boom now"), someone refers to it as "the final boss of learning English". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSffz_bl6zo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSffz_bl6zo (Edit: can't find that specific comment, link just goes to the music video.)
- tshaddox 1y agoI’m a native English speaker and I felt like a non-native reader when I tried to read Ulysses.
- skyyler 1y agoMoby Dick seems to be very love-it-or-hate-it. Some people can't make it through two pages; some people can't put it down once they start.
- Suppafly 1y ago>Idk, Dickens and Melville are pretty hard to get through. If you're reading for just funsies, sure. But none of their works are particularly long, even reading a few chapters here and there, it'd take a week for each at most.
- scop 1y agoHaven’t read Dickens, but Melville was a revelation for me. His short stories are great, but Moby Dick is a work of glory. It’s hard to explain why, but Moby Dick basically bifurcated my life: there was the time before I read it and the time after. That being said, I would have hated it in high school and am glad it wasn’t assigned. It was something I could only appreciate in my 30s.