Finally picked up Grapes of Wrath, and damn is it good. Steinbeck has such beautiful prose when he’s not writing southern dialect.
What other classics are still compelling today? If it’s any help, I don’t really dig Vonnegut, Asimov, and Huxley.
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I don’t think it’s any worse than some modern epics. I will say: Tolstoy is really into realism, and one very “realistic” thing he does is have tons of characters with very similar names to confuse the hell out of you
