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I have read that statistically people tend not to. Don’t know the truth of it. He’ll still be suffering in the meantime.

And the coup Maduro is currently engaged in? Any progress on that?

She also has a prior conviction for intentionally spreading COVID.

I think you might not know very much about the pain of third degree burns.

If he makes it, he is going to be infinitely full of regret with the consequences he’ll have to live with.

It’s in the Ukrainian constitution that they do not hold elections while at war. How horrible for Zelensky to follow their constitution.

That’s fair.

As a woman, I would probably visit Saudi Arabia before I would visit India. India is literally the only country that a fellow traveler has ever recommended against going to to me.

I can accept that there are good things about Uttar Pradesh which are not reported to the Western world. For example, it looks like a beautiful place.

However, those good things not being reported doesn’t really impact the frequency of such horrible atrocities being committed there.

Some of them are also being eaten by wolves recently. The children, mostly. But that is not as common a problem as women being sexually assaulted is.

What the FUCK is wrong with Uttar Pradesh? Because it is almost always Uttar Pradesh. And more importantly, why isn’t the government doing anything about it?

I’ve heard that about The Dispossessed. I tried to listen to it on audiobook and the narration was terrible, so I just couldn’t get far into it. I need to pick up a physical or digital copy.

Oh, and Malazan is great. That one took me two tries to really get into as well, mostly because I initially had trouble keeping track of so many characters.

Enjoying a classic book is not pretentious. Conversely, gatekeeping what people think is a must-read is pretty pretentious.

Reading books which make you think is also not pretentious, and I get the idea that you sure think it is. There’s nothing wrong with light reading for fun, but some people enjoy more variety than that.

The sequels are worth it.

No. The Count of Monte Cristo is a much better and deeper novel, but The Three Musketeers is much lighter and more fun. They’re both good reads for different reasons.

I’ve been thinking the same myself. I remember it having such an impact on me as a kid.

I don’t mean to be replying to every post on this thread–I guess I love a lot of books–, but I’m going to have to recommend these in particular for people who don’t usually read.

I had this friend in college who had never read a book of his own volition. He wasn’t the sort of person who was proud of the fact, he just thought books were boring and had trouble getting through them. This horrified me, as somebody who had a collection of some 500 books or so at that point (almost all of them read). Anyway, he read Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and then Catch-22, and he was hooked. He’s been a reader ever since.

I agree with more than one of these, but I would call out The Metamorphosis as one that everybody should read. You can appreciate it at any age (well, within reason–maybe not for the 8-year-olds), it’s dramatic and captivating, and it’s short.

I always try to recommend books of short stories to my friends who like to read but don’t have much time for it.

I really loved The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. I was surprised at how well they held up over time.

The dystopic books that warn us of what we could be.

1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, Animal Farm, The Giver (and yes, you should still read The Giver even if you’re an adult if you’ve never read it before).

But the first book that flashed through my mind when I read the question was Slaughterhouse Five.