Thank you for taking on my challenge. My recommendation for a book of this type is A Gentleman in Moscow. A little Russian history and a watch of Casablanca is a must before enjoying this wonderful book. Love your videos(this is my favorite 😊). Safe travels and Happy writing.
Carolyn!! I’m watching while opening the package I ordered from Etsy, it’s so so kind of u to personalize a bit. This was so special, thank you so much 🩷🩷🩷🩷 I love it.
Tackling the novels you've recommended, Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" in particular, requires that the interested reader be in an ideal mental space to commit to such a tome over an extended period of time. Your point is even more applicable to the so-called maximalist novels of repute (William Gaddis's The Recognitions, David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest), you know what I mean, those voluminous, pretentiously self-aware, referential objects buzzing with genre hybridity that plead for intertextual knowingness and active decoding from the start.
I would love to see Norte Dame get built, the Sistine Chapel painted, and the sculptures of David and the Pieta get carved. Also, to witness some of DaVinci’s lost works, and read Jane Austen’s letters before Cassandra burned them.
I would put Paradise Lost, The Iliad, and most of Shakespeare in this category. Knowing their plots gives the modern reader some milestones to know where they are and some structure to hang on to while they get used to the language. And, for the Iliad, just knowing some of the geography and basic facts of the Trojan War can be terribly clarifying. (I don't feel the same about The Odyssey because it is so episodic and meandering, anyway.)
Every video brings me joy and happpiness❤! I'm a lonely person. I don't have many friends, at least not who love reading Classics.😔 I'm in the last year of hightschool and every day I come home wishing that I had Emma or Carolyne next to me to talk about books. If anyboody out there feels the same would you like to be pan pals?🙏
I’m so happy to hear that my (and Emma’s) videos bring you joy! I felt similarly to you when I was in high school, so don’t give up hope ☺️ You’ll find “your people” who (fingers crossed) love books too 📖✨
It was the first time I ordered from your Etsy shop, I love your artwork and was just waiting for something for me ❤ If I could go back in time I would have loved to see a live concert of Pink Floyd The Wall as this is my favourite band and my favourite album of all time 😊
I agree it’s nice to know some background on books in case they end up disturbing you. One of the books I read that I wish I had more knowledge on before I read it was Native Son by Richard Wright. Very powerful book but highly disturbing too.
Magnificent video! Other books I would add to the list would be Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, We Burn Daylight by Bret Anthony Johnston, and As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. Don Quixote would be a good choice as well, along with the novel Nausea by Sartre. Happy Reading!
Love your videos! I was elated to see you posting about Father Christmas, I thought of you when I received my copy some months ago. I started buying Tolkien books near the beginning of the year and just received a preorder of his poetry 3 volume set. I haven't counted but I think my collection is somewhere about 60 books.
Howdy!! I just wanted to let you know that every time you do an Etsy drop I sprint to Etsy and squeal with excitement at your work, it’s just a little pricey to ship it to Australia ❤ but that doesn’t stop me from admiring from afar! Also I would want to meet Alexander Dumas, C Wright Mills and Einstein if I could go back :)
I'd love a book about Reading more Banned and Challenged books. I thought of that when you mentioned Speak. Speak got me through a very similar experience because it made me realize that I wasn't alone
I started reading Winters Tale which is 700+ pages and I credit you with giving me the confidence to try a big book! Maybe I'll tackle Russian Lit next. ❤
I would love to witness life is the 1800’s. Specifically watching the Ingalls family. I love little house on the prairie so much. I think it would be so cool to meet them/experience how they lived
Hi Carolyn! I love the black fern bookmark you designed! I am currently reading The Great Gatsby, Sipsworth and Salems Lot ( for the second time). I would have loved to have attended the coronation of Anne Boleyn.
Thank you Carolyn, for the wonderful descriptions of these books, BUT WITHOUT ANY SPOILERS! It's such a huge thing not to spoil the whole plot (or the ending) of your favourite or hated books, on the booktube! And for that I thank you 💚 P.S.: (I wonder how some booktubers blabber about books giving the whole plot! How are we the viewers gonna pick that up after they told everything about it including the ending!!! 😤😤. I digress, sorry but it makes me mad)
Understanding the background is important when approaching an historical fiction novel. It is certain that Tolstoy expected his reader to be familiar with the Napoleonic wars. My last reads were Tolstoy's Hadji Murad and Graham Greene's _The Quiet American,_ and I needed to do a little research prior to getting into them.
i've been tackling ulysses by james joyce. i walked into it blind. it's a jarring & puzzling book. i stopped after the first chapter & realized i needed to know much more about this book... so now im researching reviews on the book... and learning i also watched the movie, which was surreal! now i'm going back to listen and read a physical version
War and Peace what you need is list of characters, their families and all the names for each character (many characters have 3 names: first, nickname and family name). Beyond that not sure you need any more (that was all I gave to folks in my Bookclub and they did fine). NB: reading about 350 pgs/month.
1st, love your channel!! 2nd, I'm 50-50 about your recommendation to read about the plot of "War & Peace" before reading the book. My reservation is that it often gives away what happens to the characters in the course of the book. It also takes away the wonder of experiencing the book completely anew. I remember the 1st time I read War & Peace. I was so entranced by it. Every break time at work, on the train coming & going, spare time at home I was reading it & was completely immersed with Pierre, Natasha, Andrei, Marya. They're now like old friends who I reunite with whenever I reread the book. It's one of my all time favorite books & I truly envy anyone reading this masterpiece for the 1st time. Again, wonderful channel-keep up the great work 😊
Some publishers - Penguin notably - include introductions and/or prefaces. Readers typically say they don't read them because in them are too many spoilers. However, if you do try both ways possibly you'll become as I am, a cover-to-cover every page reader. Thanks very much for the video and I am so glad your life is pleasantly busy!
@@kimbarbeaureads ofc I'm sorry to hear that considering how popular that is. I may be the oddball here but I do find them very helpful most of the time. Most recently with James' Portrait of a Lady. I've heard many people complain about spoilers in the intro but Penguin has been pretty stubborn that way. Anyway, take care and good reading.
So, if I could go back in time to witness some event (and not change it) what would it be? I think I would like to see and hear the first performance of _Thespis_ by Gilbert and Sullivan in 1871. The libretto still exists, but the music has been lost forever. I might even bring a tape recorder with me. 😉
I think maybe I'd like to see a Shakespeare play but likely I'd leave disappointed, and maybe a little disgusted. Some of their habits were pretty rude by our standards and likely it was very very hard to hear the actors deliver their lines. But who knows, right?
I usually don't even look at the back of the book or the introduction. I like to be surprised. For classics I usually know what it is about or I saw a movie a long time ago, but there is one book I wish I checked before I started. Middlemarch by George Eliot. I knew the time period it was from and basically what it was about but I really should looked more into it, because of the type of book it was, and did some research on how Eliot wrote her books. I had to watch the miniseries after to understand the book. I really enjoy Silas Marner, I had no trouble at all with that book, and I will read more of her books. I am just sad, that I really didn't enjoy her most famous and well loved book.
Hi Carolyn, i just love your videos, you're so inspiring. You've helped me to tackle big books, I have avoided them because they're so intimidating! Have you read the 'Outlander' series by Diane Gabaldon? They're not a classic but the time travel is so interesting. Enjoy your day! ❤️
You've probably already done it in the past, but what about suggesting other foreign countries' classic novels? You know, other european or asian countries. For once, I'd love to hear you talking about people like Pirandello, or Manzoni, or Buzzati, or Dumas, Hugo, etc.
not to be mean cause I enjoy Carolyn's videos and she's most likely a very nice person etc but she seems to be talking about the same books over and over again :/
Carolyn, I don’t know what I am doing wrong 😭 I am up to part 6 of the Maude version of Anna Karenina and I find Anna and Vronsky sooo unbearably superficial and affluent and I have no idea if that’s normal!!! For me it’s a 5/5 read and I am absolutely adoring the characters, the plot and the writing, but I am on team Karenin the whole way and I feel really bad because I think I am meant to empathise with Anna and Vronsky but the whole time I find myself rolling my eyes at them and annotating why I think they are silly, ironically uneducated even though a big theme is education and how it gets you both ahead and behind, and making poor decisions. At this point I think I have confirmation bias 😅 but I am in love with Levin and Kitty, the farmers and the painter Mikhaylov and all the little underdogs in the book!
Also her manipulation of the people around her and playing the victim is so reminiscent of Emma by Jane Austen, I can’t help but drawing comparisons and cross comparing their characters the wholeeee time, but Anna is older than Emma and I feel like she should have already learned this lesson!
Do yourself a favor for October and read Dracula of Transylvania by Ricardo Delgado...it's a very thick book but omg...it's dark but you can't put it down . incredibly interesting.
Hi! I left a comment with a RUclips link earlier. I understand if you erased it. You can see Monet painting his waterlillies in his garden on it. It is from the Los Angeles County Museum of Fine Arts. It's not like being there (it's in black and white) but it is quite moving. 🎨
I very much doubt she erased it, To my way of thinking, if it is disappeared it was a systemic feature of the RUclips comments, I think maybe I know how you feel because I do get upset when someone deletes a comment of mine, especially one which was made sincerely and in good taste. : )
I guess it probably is just me, this post didn’t move the needle for me … maybe I’ve just got the blues today ? Have you ever done a vlog on a grouping of very specific topics, nature, Victorian England, missing persons, idk- supernatural squirrels 😂? Just a thought on same genre, plot specific like topics… Have a great day- looking very forward to seeing England through your eyes !!
This was such a fun video!! Also, I had a thought… if you were to make a Patreon for while you’re away, I think that could be a fun way to support your travels! I would subscribe in a heartbeat 😊
I would like to be present with the Shepherds who saw Jesus when he was born. Also, just to meet Him back then when He had a moment to chat. Currently I'm reading The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and listening to the audiobook Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth
You know I think about that sometimes: Surely there's no space here for a discussion but the plain fact one cannot get around is even someone who personally met him, touched him, and witnessed his miracles still could doubt, deny, and betray him. It's really pretty amazing.
slight correction... the "War of 1812" is the war between the US and UK... you were referring to the French invasion of Russia which occurred in 1812, which is commonly referred to as the Russian Campaign of 1812.. or the French Invasion of Russia in 1812... but we get your point!
Right now, I would like to go back and see what happened to the dinosaurs. If it happened over time I would like to be dropped at a good time to witness and understand why they died out.
I tried to read war and peace 3 times in my youth and it was so monotonously boring and all those russian surnames ugh. I dont think you need to know the history of something if the author is a good story teller. Im 67 is there anybody out there who could convince me to give it another try? (It has to be convincing)
Thank you for taking on my challenge. My recommendation for a book of this type is A Gentleman in Moscow. A little Russian history and a watch of Casablanca is a must before enjoying this wonderful book. Love your videos(this is my favorite 😊). Safe travels and Happy writing.
What got me excited about reading War and Peace was the miniseries on RUclips. Thank you for that rec.!
Carolyn!! I’m watching while opening the package I ordered from Etsy, it’s so so kind of u to personalize a bit. This was so special, thank you so much 🩷🩷🩷🩷 I love it.
This video came on time!!! I am reading now War and Peace in russian. Carolyn, I love your videos so much and you inspire me always. ❤❤❤
I love your videos and I jump for joy when I get the notification that you uploaded a new video! 😍😍😍
Aww I’m so glad ☺️
YAY CAROLYN UPLOADED
Tackling the novels you've recommended, Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" in particular, requires that the interested reader be in an ideal mental space to commit to such a tome over an extended period of time. Your point is even more applicable to the so-called maximalist novels of repute (William Gaddis's The Recognitions, David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest), you know what I mean, those voluminous, pretentiously self-aware, referential objects buzzing with genre hybridity that plead for intertextual knowingness and active decoding from the start.
I would love to see Norte Dame get built, the Sistine Chapel painted, and the sculptures of David and the Pieta get carved. Also, to witness some of DaVinci’s lost works, and read Jane Austen’s letters before Cassandra burned them.
I would put Paradise Lost, The Iliad, and most of Shakespeare in this category. Knowing their plots gives the modern reader some milestones to know where they are and some structure to hang on to while they get used to the language. And, for the Iliad, just knowing some of the geography and basic facts of the Trojan War can be terribly clarifying. (I don't feel the same about The Odyssey because it is so episodic and meandering, anyway.)
So happy for your success. And this wonderful community. Keep going.
"speak" really shook me. i did not know what i was getting into.
very powerful haunting book
Every video brings me joy and happpiness❤! I'm a lonely person. I don't have many friends, at least not who love reading Classics.😔 I'm in the last year of hightschool and every day I come home wishing that I had Emma or Carolyne next to me to talk about books. If anyboody out there feels the same would you like to be pan pals?🙏
I’m so happy to hear that my (and Emma’s) videos bring you joy! I felt similarly to you when I was in high school, so don’t give up hope ☺️ You’ll find “your people” who (fingers crossed) love books too 📖✨
@sofia7321, in a similar boat, we could chat about books, have you got a Discord?
What a nice comment. It's amazing that you have such an appreciation for the classics. High school is where it started for me, too.
@@karlareadstheclassics217 thank you so much. It s so nice to know that there are people who felt the same.
It was the first time I ordered from your Etsy shop, I love your artwork and was just waiting for something for me ❤ If I could go back in time I would have loved to see a live concert of Pink Floyd The Wall as this is my favourite band and my favourite album of all time 😊
I can't believe it! MY dream is to have seen Monet painting his waterlilies! Since I was 5 and I went there on a school trip! 😍
Awesome recs, Carolyn! I really want to know the poetry of Mary Oliver! 💖
Red Badge of Courage-- when I read it, I was totally lost. I feel like knowing some background would have helped me so much!
I agree it’s nice to know some background on books in case they end up disturbing you. One of the books I read that I wish I had more knowledge on before I read it was Native Son by Richard Wright. Very powerful book but highly disturbing too.
Omg I’m first. Love your content! You finish my reading slump! ❤
Yay! I’m so glad to hear that ☺️ Reading slumps are not welcome here 😂
Magnificent video! Other books I would add to the list would be Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, We Burn Daylight by Bret Anthony Johnston, and As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. Don Quixote would be a good choice as well, along with the novel Nausea by Sartre. Happy Reading!
Love your videos! I was elated to see you posting about Father Christmas, I thought of you when I received my copy some months ago. I started buying Tolkien books near the beginning of the year and just received a preorder of his poetry 3 volume set. I haven't counted but I think my collection is somewhere about 60 books.
Howdy!!
I just wanted to let you know that every time you do an Etsy drop I sprint to Etsy and squeal with excitement at your work, it’s just a little pricey to ship it to Australia ❤ but that doesn’t stop me from admiring from afar!
Also I would want to meet Alexander Dumas, C Wright Mills and Einstein if I could go back :)
I'd love a book about Reading more Banned and Challenged books. I thought of that when you mentioned Speak. Speak got me through a very similar experience because it made me realize that I wasn't alone
I started reading Winters Tale which is 700+ pages and I credit you with giving me the confidence to try a big book! Maybe I'll tackle Russian Lit next. ❤
I have look up this book but nowhere is it 700 pages they are all over 400 pages. Is this Shakespeare??
@@patriciapendlbury2603 I should have clarified because it's Mark Helperin, Winter's Tale, and not Shakespeare's Winter's Tale. 🙂
@@winstonchurchll thankyou sooo much!!
I would love to witness life is the 1800’s. Specifically watching the Ingalls family. I love little house on the prairie so much. I think it would be so cool to meet them/experience how they lived
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Hi Carolyn! I love the black fern bookmark you designed! I am currently reading The Great Gatsby, Sipsworth and Salems Lot ( for the second time). I would have loved to have attended the coronation of Anne Boleyn.
Thank you Carolyn, for the wonderful descriptions of these books, BUT WITHOUT ANY SPOILERS! It's such a huge thing not to spoil the whole plot (or the ending) of your favourite or hated books, on the booktube! And for that I thank you 💚
P.S.: (I wonder how some booktubers blabber about books giving the whole plot! How are we the viewers gonna pick that up after they told everything about it including the ending!!! 😤😤. I digress, sorry but it makes me mad)
Understanding the background is important when approaching an historical fiction novel. It is certain that Tolstoy expected his reader to be familiar with the Napoleonic wars. My last reads were Tolstoy's Hadji Murad and Graham Greene's _The Quiet American,_ and I needed to do a little research prior to getting into them.
Glad I’m watching this video as Persuasion is in my audiobook backlog and found the Netflix adaptation.
i've been tackling ulysses by james joyce.
i walked into it blind. it's a jarring & puzzling book.
i stopped after the first chapter & realized i needed to know much more about this book... so now im researching reviews on the book... and learning
i also watched the movie, which was surreal!
now i'm going back to listen and read a physical version
War and Peace what you need is list of characters, their families and all the names for each character (many characters have 3 names: first, nickname and family name).
Beyond that not sure you need any more (that was all I gave to folks in my Bookclub and they did fine). NB: reading about 350 pgs/month.
1st, love your channel!!
2nd, I'm 50-50 about your recommendation to read about the plot of "War & Peace" before reading the book. My reservation is that it often gives away what happens to the characters in the course of the book. It also takes away the wonder of experiencing the book completely anew.
I remember the 1st time I read War & Peace. I was so entranced by it. Every break time at work, on the train coming & going, spare time at home I was reading it & was completely immersed with Pierre, Natasha, Andrei, Marya. They're now like old friends who I reunite with whenever I reread the book.
It's one of my all time favorite books & I truly envy anyone reading this masterpiece for the 1st time.
Again, wonderful channel-keep up the great work 😊
WE LOVE BOOK TRUST EXERCISE 🎉
I enjoy Tolkien not only because of the cool things he did for his kids growing up, but also the fact that he invented an actual real language!
Some publishers - Penguin notably - include introductions and/or prefaces. Readers typically say they don't read them because in them are too many spoilers. However, if you do try both ways possibly you'll become as I am, a cover-to-cover every page reader. Thanks very much for the video and I am so glad your life is pleasantly busy!
When I read We Have Always Lived in the Castle the intro thoroughly spoiled the book. I was so angry I haven't read an intro since
@@kimbarbeaureads ofc I'm sorry to hear that considering how popular that is. I may be the oddball here but I do find them very helpful most of the time. Most recently with James' Portrait of a Lady. I've heard many people complain about spoilers in the intro but Penguin has been pretty stubborn that way. Anyway, take care and good reading.
Yay 🥳🥰. Do you have a preferred app that you use for your writing and research or notes?
So, if I could go back in time to witness some event (and not change it) what would it be? I think I would like to see and hear the first performance of _Thespis_ by Gilbert and Sullivan in 1871. The libretto still exists, but the music has been lost forever. I might even bring a tape recorder with me. 😉
I think maybe I'd like to see a Shakespeare play but likely I'd leave disappointed, and maybe a little disgusted. Some of their habits were pretty rude by our standards and likely it was very very hard to hear the actors deliver their lines. But who knows, right?
I usually don't even look at the back of the book or the introduction. I like to be surprised. For classics I usually know what it is about or I saw a movie a long time ago, but there is one book I wish I checked before I started. Middlemarch by George Eliot. I knew the time period it was from and basically what it was about but I really should looked more into it, because of the type of book it was, and did some research on how Eliot wrote her books. I had to watch the miniseries after to understand the book. I really enjoy Silas Marner, I had no trouble at all with that book, and I will read more of her books. I am just sad, that I really didn't enjoy her most famous and well loved book.
i would love to be a fly on the wall during a Bloomsbury literary discussion.
Hi Carolyn, i just love your videos, you're so inspiring. You've helped me to tackle big books, I have avoided them because they're so intimidating! Have you read the 'Outlander' series by Diane Gabaldon? They're not a classic but the time travel is so interesting. Enjoy your day! ❤️
Sadly the flower bookmarks were gone even though I went on the shop bright and early that morning. Did people reserve them beforehand?
I’m sorry you missed them, but they’ll be back! No, it’s just first come first serve. I’ll make sure to have a greater quantity next time ☺️
the fact that nobody talks about the book called Manifestation Hacks by Olivia Cooper speaks volumes about how people are stuck in a trance.
Oh my word loved your comment! I've never heard of this author or title but I'll have to look it up perhaps I'll come out of my trance!!!!😂
You've probably already done it in the past, but what about suggesting other foreign countries' classic novels? You know, other european or asian countries. For once, I'd love to hear you talking about people like Pirandello, or Manzoni, or Buzzati, or Dumas, Hugo, etc.
not to be mean cause I enjoy Carolyn's videos and she's most likely a very nice person etc but she seems to be talking about the same books over and over again :/
Have you read The Woman in White? I’m reading it now and really enjoying it.
I would love for you to review a classic titled the sheltering sky by Paul Bowles. One of my favorites, and I think you would like it.
I Would Like to watch All The Impressionists Paint during Monet's Time( Love Monet's Paintings Too😊👍🏻👍🏻🎨).
Carolyn, I don’t know what I am doing wrong 😭 I am up to part 6 of the Maude version of Anna Karenina and I find Anna and Vronsky sooo unbearably superficial and affluent and I have no idea if that’s normal!!! For me it’s a 5/5 read and I am absolutely adoring the characters, the plot and the writing, but I am on team Karenin the whole way and I feel really bad because I think I am meant to empathise with Anna and Vronsky but the whole time I find myself rolling my eyes at them and annotating why I think they are silly, ironically uneducated even though a big theme is education and how it gets you both ahead and behind, and making poor decisions. At this point I think I have confirmation bias 😅 but I am in love with Levin and Kitty, the farmers and the painter Mikhaylov and all the little underdogs in the book!
Also her manipulation of the people around her and playing the victim is so reminiscent of Emma by Jane Austen, I can’t help but drawing comparisons and cross comparing their characters the wholeeee time, but Anna is older than Emma and I feel like she should have already learned this lesson!
Do yourself a favor for October and read Dracula of Transylvania by Ricardo Delgado...it's a very thick book but omg...it's dark but you can't put it down . incredibly interesting.
Hi! I left a comment with a RUclips link earlier. I understand if you erased it. You can see Monet painting his waterlillies in his garden on it. It is from the Los Angeles County Museum of Fine Arts. It's not like being there (it's in black and white) but it is quite moving. 🎨
I very much doubt she erased it, To my way of thinking, if it is disappeared it was a systemic feature of the RUclips comments, I think maybe I know how you feel because I do get upset when someone deletes a comment of mine, especially one which was made sincerely and in good taste. : )
@@jamesduggan7200 thanks. I just wanted her to see Monet paint. She can go to the Museum's page if she wants.
I wish I could’ve spoken extensively with Leonardo da Vinci and watched as Michelangelo carved the Pieta and David.
I guess it probably is just me, this post didn’t move the needle for me … maybe I’ve just got the blues today ?
Have you ever done a vlog on a grouping of very specific topics, nature, Victorian England, missing persons, idk- supernatural squirrels 😂? Just a thought on same genre, plot specific like topics…
Have a great day- looking very forward to seeing England through your eyes !!
I'd love to witness Beatlemania
That’s such a great answer!!!!!
This was such a fun video!! Also, I had a thought… if you were to make a Patreon for while you’re away, I think that could be a fun way to support your travels! I would subscribe in a heartbeat 😊
I would go back to the early years of the 19th century and try to stop the duels where both Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov lost their lives.
I would like to be present with the Shepherds who saw Jesus when he was born. Also, just to meet Him back then when He had a moment to chat.
Currently I'm reading The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and listening to the audiobook Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth
You know I think about that sometimes: Surely there's no space here for a discussion but the plain fact one cannot get around is even someone who personally met him, touched him, and witnessed his miracles still could doubt, deny, and betray him. It's really pretty amazing.
slight correction... the "War of 1812" is the war between the US and UK... you were referring to the French invasion of Russia which occurred in 1812, which is commonly referred to as the Russian Campaign of 1812.. or the French Invasion of Russia in 1812... but we get your point!
Yes! Thank you for the correction 😆 Mixing up my words, as usual hahaha
It feels like a crime to be this early 😅😂
Never!!! To me, it feels like an honor to have you here this early ☺️
I'm never able to find your mini bookmarks.
They were there for a few minutes 😆 Next time I’ll have a greater quantity 👍
Right now, I would like to go back and see what happened to the dinosaurs. If it happened over time I would like to be dropped at a good time to witness and understand why they died out.
I tried to read war and peace 3 times in my youth and it was so monotonously boring and all those russian surnames ugh. I dont think you need to know the history of something if the author is a good story teller. Im 67 is there anybody out there who could convince me to give it another try? (It has to be convincing)
it's antithesis, not anti-thesis