Jul 5
You know when you’re reading(or listening to audiobook of) classic lit and it’s like OHHH THIIS IS SO GOOD and it’s like . Yes . Popular things are often popular for a reason. 🙃
#I tried reading (listening to) Blood Meridian cause I kept hearing it was ‘the best horror ever written’ etc etc#and I have to say it was NOT for me. like; I get how technically ‘good’ it was but also I just found it overwhelmingly depressing and#slogging with the ‘and then they killed this person. and then they scalped this old woman. and then they threw puppies in the river’ and so#on and so forth with no reprieve#so I was listening to a bunch of videos ABOUT it / analyzing it since I couldn’t bring myself to finish it#and that made it much more enjoyable (though I still wouldn’t read it)#but a lot of the folks were saying ‘to fully appreciate this you need to have read Moby Dick and Paradise Lost and the Bible’#and so I embarked on a audiobook journey of listening to Moby Dick#and I keep being like HOLY SHIT THIS IS SO GREAT!!!!????#and it’s like . yeah dude. that’s why it’s ’A Classic’#but yeah I love when I am able to appreciate a thing that has been heralded as amazing#cause with Blood Meridian I kept hearing so much praise and I’m like .. I get it but also this is so not for me#(im generally not a fan of westerns so not sure why i thought this would be the exception….)#(I really dislike the lack of interior monologues/no knowing how characters think or feel. it’s just. abject horror witnessing over and over#and the banality of evil and etc etc (but written in incredible prose))#(though with NO punctuation…I would’ve given up SO much quicker if I was ‘reading it’ instead of listening to it)#I also think I’m not enough into American History to be able to fully appreciate it (historical fiction often doesn’t do much for me)#for some reason I thought Moby dick would be stuffy and old and hard to understand#but it’s so entertaining !!! who would’ve thought#anyhow the ChillIndustrialist free on YouTube version is the one I’m listening to right now and ! if you want a 23 hour audio book. highly#reccomend.#personal#rabbit rambles
