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Shauna McIntyre's avatar

This has been on my mind lately too. I almost always read at least one classic a year from a time when writing style was much different. I remember reading Middlemarch maybe a decade back and it was a struggle to stick with it, but also one of my favourite reading memories. I've realized that I haven't read anything in that category in this past year and I want to change that.

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Leah McCullough's avatar

I also find myself bored with the same “formula” with every book. I was recently reading an enjoyable light book to ease my weary mind. I knew exactly what was going to happen next. In fact I knew how the whole book would transpire before I was a 1/3 of the way through. For an average reader it would work, and clearly it did since it was published. However once I was over being tired I walked away from it and found something more enjoyable. I don’t want to read or write inside a code. I’m a creative, not an engineer.

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