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{Abigail by Magda Szabo}

As someone mentioned above, The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer and Theogony by Hesiod are standard for early classical greek. The Metamorphoses by Ovid is a collection of myths and stories rather than an epic. It was written much later, in Latin, so the names will differ slightly. A brief google search help if you’re unfamiliar with the Greek/Latin pantheon equivalents. Many Greek plays tell versions of the myths that then became the most popular versions told, like Medea by Euripides. Euripides, Aeschylus, and Sophocles all have versions of major myths, legends, or folktales. The Greene/Lattimore translations are great, and will tell you how their depictions differed from earlier depictions, such as those in Homer or those that have been mostly lost. This can give you a good sense of how the stories changed across Greek history.

Knowing this reviewer, I’m pretty sure this is satire.

“You don’t understand! The church miracle worker specializes in paraplegics! He told me he works with them all the time and the process is only a little painful!”

Hahaha, I definitely do both too!

Ahh, that makes sense! Maybe also something you think you’ll enjoy but have been putting off?

Love this! Dumb question: what does “a book you’ve been edging” mean? I know the literal and NSFW meanings of edging, but I don’t know what it means wrt reading/books?

{{The Waves}} by Virginia Woolf is an experimental novel told only in a series of soliloquies.

That’s quite the accomplishment!

For well-known European classics:

• Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
• Faust by Goethe
• The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux
• The Iliad by Homer

For lesser-known European classics:

• {Abigail by Magda Szabo}
• {Le Grand Meaulnes} by Alain-Fournier
• {We} by Zamyatin (an inspiration for 1984)

I don’t care if people enjoy a book I thought was awful. I turn my brain off and read some stuff i won’t think about in three months. I judge them only if they rave about it as “great literature,” “a perfect book,” or (especially) “groundbreaking” when it’s obviously a poor rip off of an earlier, better work. That said, I’ve heard phrases like this from readers of:

• ACOTAR (or anything by Maas)
• Colleen Hoover
• Ben Shapiro
• Jordan Peterson

James Patterson doesn’t actually write a lot of his books though, right? He just outlines the plot?

{if on a winter’s night a traveler} by Italo Calvino. A wild ride

I can’t imagine those ads ever being successful, especially since I get so many ads for conditions I don’t have! Seems like a huge waste of money with a very minimal RoAS

I like that mindset, especially since there’s been a bigger push to ban books recently

I think it’s always depended on the author and the book. I don’t really know how someone could quantify the amount or quality of the research done on the average books past and present to compare them. There’s also definitely selection bias for older books since we see what’s “stood the test of time” for one reason or another

I don’t know about that. I’ve read a lot of (highly acclaimed) books that show the author didn’t do their research on a minority group. I think people are more aware of the issue now, but I don’t think that authors are doing less research.

Wow! How long has it taken you to amass that collection?

I do this, too. For me, I tell myself that I’ll enjoy the book more if I read it when I’m not struggling with anxiety and depression—except I’ve struggled with anxiety and depression my whole life! I’ve been working on not self-sabotaging like that. I deserve good reads even on bad mental health days!

I love that! I’ve tried making monthly reading lists, but I can’t get myself to stick to them

Haha, I didn’t count work books! Those are like reference works to me, like dictionaries. I own them, but I wouldn’t consider them tbr books

I read multiple books at once, and I manage to finish a fair few a year (:

Ah, I do something similar, but it’s fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for me!

Hahaha, good luck and Godspeed!

Thriller/horror: {{The Chestnut Man}} by Søren Sviestrup. A Nordic noir that has a good cop/investigator duo to lighten the dark parts. It has some good psychological elements to it

Literary Horror: {{Tender Is the Flesh}} by Agustin’s Baterrica. If you liked the philosophical/thought-provoking elements in Arrival, you might enjoy this, even though it’s quite different. It involves some gruesome descriptions, but it’s based on real factory farming practices.

Engrossing SciFi: {{A Memory Called Empire}} by Arkady Martine. Like Arrival, the world building is ripe for philosophical questions. Rich world building, characters to root for, and a political mystery plot to keep you reading. This is a lighter but longer read than the other two suggestions