Recommendations of Classic Books
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- kellymfowler
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Re: Recommendations of Classic Books
- sheenasmith0715
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If you've only been watching the scary movies of the same name then you are defiantly missing out. This book is a tale of growth and knowledge and in my opinion taking responsibility for ones actions. The main character Victor who creates the monster and then runs out on it will leave you confused. At times I was rooting for victor to get away from his monster and to be happy with his wife to be and then at other times I was hoping against all odds that the monster would come and take victors life for good.
The Monster who feels like like an abandoned child grows and learns but is still pretty unpredictable in behavior. But all in all he just wants to feel loved and accepted and not at all like the monster he truly is. His mood swings push people such as victor and nice family in a hut far away from him as he tries so desperately to gain their love. In the end he gets even like a toddler with everyone who has ever crossed him and leaves Victor as lonely as he has felt himself.
The story itself is easy to follow and though is it was written in the 1800's. it reads fluidly and while i didn't get a hold of it till college it has fast become a book i will continue to cherish as a kind of coming of age read. something to teach me not to run from the messes I may create but to face them head on before they get worse and come and bite me in the behind later
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Also, a really good one to go for is Little Women. You must be dedicated though, that book is thick!
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Agree! All books by Dostevsky are abolutely classical.PhotonicGuy wrote:Anna Karenina, by Lev Tolstoy is also a great classical book. I like its style very much , because Tolstoy made a realistic picture of Russia in that era. This book together with all books written by Dostoevsky are the representative classical books for me.
I would add also "Bel Ami" by Guy de Maupassant and "Madam Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert. Two classical books about the moral degradation.