Hello eru-vande! It’s another week of sending out some interesting ASKs to my mutuals. 🥰 Have you read any must-read classics? If you did, which was your favourite and why? If you haven’t, what is your favourite book and why?
Oh I think I'be read almost every russian classic books from the mmust-read classic list (not a surprise, we read them all in school), but otherwise I hardly read any, to be honest.
I read the Count of Monte Cristo, and at some point it just disgusted me to the point when i just stopped reading it.
I tried to read Brave New World, but I did a grievous mistake in trying to read it in English, read the first few chapters with 0 understanding what the hell they all are talking about and stopped lmao
I started reading The Picture of Dorian Gray and got distracted and stopped lol I hae to read it tho, i remember that i liked reading it.
I have two books I really love, they both are from USSR
The Two Captains by Veniamin Kaverin. Is a novel about development of the personality in every meaning possible. The main characters grew up from kids to adults, living through October Revolution and the WW2. It's a perfect novel for young teens, it contains love, friendship, loyalty and betrayal and the mind that eager to reach it's goal in life.
And Quite Flows the Don by Michail Sholokhov. Now, this is hard to explain what this book is about, cause it's just so big and complicated, let's say it's about the lives of Don Cossaks during Russian Revolution and WW1. A lot of inner fights of main character, a lot of idiological fights as well between the Bolshiviks and anti-Bolsheviks. Very questionable main character, but we love that (we love characters who act like a real deal person in the books right? I don't think i like him personally but i like a compicated character)
i'm sorry this is rather long answer lmao