Classic literature for lazy people
Have you read the classics? I am a voracious reader, but for some reason, the classic are not high on my book list. It's not that I don't want to read them, it's more that I just don't have the time. Well, that's a furfy. It may be more to do with the fact that I am lazy. My page limit for books is around 300, so delving into a 1400 page novel just doesn't quite do it for me.
That's why I was so happy to see these clever 'infographics' from www.boredpanda.com that tell the tale of these epics in 10 words or less. Now at least I feel like I can hold my own the next time some 'intellectual' starts spouting off how they read The Odyssey last year (right, and it probably took them a year to read it!)
How do you like that? Share your shortened versions of classic literature in the comments below!
Pretty much regard myself as a lazy reader of the classics but in semi-retirement and with more time, have sort of set myself an undisciplined, as 'the spirit moves me' sort of project of leisurely and occasionally delving into them....In the main using the local public library as the source....
Have at different times over the years tried to wrap my brain around people like James Joyce, Samual Beckett etc. and will continue....Key for me would be to take it slowly and try to understand and be open to that 'stream of consciousness' stuff - but will stick with it.....
Also revisiting people like Dickens, and at this point in my life finding his delicious over-the-top verbosity both hilarious, and sort of silly smart....Have heard he was paid by the word but think that is a myth....But have come across 19th century newspapers over recent years whilst researching the family tree, and they seem to have the same very verbose writing style to some extent...
Similarly quite like the way Thomas Hardy writes in 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' which I've started, stopped, started, stopped over the years but eventually saw the film somewhere....Will pass on the Tee Shirt...