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Classics are classics for a reason, eh? Fiction has the power to endure.

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Indeed! What is your favourite classic?

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Excellent question and I don't know the answer, I need to ponder that. Currently on an exploration of literature written in the early 1800's (I have to look up every 3rd word...peruke, posset). Just finished Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Grey...it's a phenomenal gothic satire on the value of beauty.

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Great choice, I love The Picture of Dorian Grey. Well, please do let me know when you've come up with an answer, it'd be great to dive in too!

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Not sure how we should define a classic, but have you read 1Q84 by Marukami? One of my faves that I reread from time to time. HA! I have a favorite! Dante's Inferno... each translation I've read is so different. That makes me intrigued, but I've been to many of the places he talks about. Not Hell per se, but I've been to the tower in Bologna. "Abandon hope all ye' who enter here." We had an Italian friend over for dinner and he could recite canto after canto. Now, that's an appreciation of Dante!

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What was the last book you read Jason? Agree fiction provides so much joy, and isn't that what reading is about? I've lost interest in that specific non-fiction genre - the self help, personal development, psychology (pseudo and real!). Last year I started reading Carol Dweck's book 'Mindset' and was completely bored after 75 pages. Very rarely do books like that actually appeal to me nowadays. At the moment I'm really into non fiction true stories, interesting people, biographies, history etc. I enjoy and learn from them much more.

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I finished Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and King of Madison Avenue by Keneth Roman. Currently reading Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson and Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo. How about you?

Yeah I'm similar, I lost interest in all that self-help genre. Yes Mindset could've easily been a blog post.

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