long classic books that are *actually* worth your time (part 2)

long classic books that are actually worth your time (part 2)

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Күн бұрын

Do you want to read long classic books but don't know which ones are actually worth your time? Well, I'm here to (hopefully) help...again!
Hi friends,
It has been quite some time since my first "long classics that are actually worth your time" video, so I wanted to check back in and share more amazing long classics with you! Some of these books I've loved for years and some are new-to-me favorites! I hope this helps encourage you to pick up these long classics, because they truly are worth every page!
I'd love to know which long classics you think are worth reading, so feel free to share them in the comments!
Best wishes,
Carolyn Marie :)
Chapters:
intro - 00:00
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier- 01:15
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte - 04:13
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - 07:04
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy - 09:18
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - 11:24
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth by Leo Tolstoy - 13:29
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - 16:18
The Count of Monet Cristo by Alexandre Dumas - 18:24
Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien - 20:30
East of Eden by John Steinbeck - 22:47
Outro - 24:02
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@kjcovers98 17 күн бұрын

Yes please!! The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is arguably my favorite Brontë book, it really deserves more love and recognition 🥹🤍

@boranyachoudhury7033 17 күн бұрын

Omg same for me ❤ It's my favourite Brontë book as well🥹

@raoulhery 17 күн бұрын

Wuthering Heights FTW !!!

@kimberlyrecio4136 17 күн бұрын

I love The Tenant as well. Unpopular opinion-I didn’t like Wuthering Heights. Pretty much hated every character and the plot! I feel so alone on this island. 😂

@butterflycucumbers6279 16 күн бұрын

Why? What are its merits? Why must everything be such a mystery! 😢

@kjcovers98 16 күн бұрын

@@raoulhery loved Wuthering Heights as well!! The Brontë family was a talented bunch😌👌🏻

@mikayla9473 17 күн бұрын

The Count of Monte Cristo was on my list 4 long books to read in 2024.. I didnt get around to it until after the bookclub because it was intimidating. Hearing all of your reviews I picked it up immediately and you describe it perfectly!

@rozaganser3016 16 күн бұрын

The Count of Monte Cristo is my favorite book of all time.

@Rieboppers 17 күн бұрын

Lord of the Rings is one my favorite stories (next to the legend of sleepy hollow) and there’s only one person in my life that loves the books. It’s brought me so much joy to see you and Emma love it too.

@AdamFishkin 16 күн бұрын

Any time a lengthy book justifies its length, the experience is extraordinary. Rewarding a reader across 700+ pages is something special, which is why it's sometimes heartbreaking how epics intimidate people. As a filmmaker, I have an adaptation bucket list and at a future date when budgets allow me, I intend to produce the definitive film adaptations. Don Quixote (which you mentioned in the part 1 video) and Wuthering Heights are on said bucket list. The stories' possibilities are so vivid to me. Happy July to you, Carolyn.

@natatatt 16 күн бұрын

I started reading East of Eden after you mentioned it in your last video, as I also had it sitting on my shelf. I'm 400 pages in and really like it. Going to try and tackle Count of Monte Cristo later this year - I've been avoiding it due to the length.

@SkullKnight1 17 күн бұрын

In the third part East of Eden will make this list.

@officialmkamzeemwatela 16 күн бұрын

It’s in this video

@jamesduggan7200 17 күн бұрын

I am so very happy you're enjoying your reading rather than treating it as a chore, job, or duty. Enjoy!

@haerhawk 17 күн бұрын

I'd love to see this video series be a yearly thing even for short classics such as the great gatsby,old man and the sea or the metamorphosis

@_samaa 17 күн бұрын

OMG My Cousin Rachel was so good! I enjoyed it more than Rebecca. My Cousin Rachel is the kind of book that would make you want to re-read it right after you finish it.

@malissamoench8587 16 күн бұрын

💯

@bujobyfilo 16 күн бұрын

Agree! It's one of my favorite books ever!

@rnee1000 17 күн бұрын

DuMaurier ia amazing. Rebecca is my favorite but My Cousin Rachel is a close second.

@atotallyhumanbeing 17 күн бұрын

Thank you for the recommendations! I'm glad you loved The Count of Monte Cristo - it might be my favourite classic I've read yet, it was just utterly captivating the first time I read it :D

@poncedeleon759 17 күн бұрын

Hardy's Return of the Native & The Woodlanders are both beautifully descriptive of the English countryside of old and they will pull at your heart strings, however there is beauty in both aswell. Jude the Obscure will rip your heart, entrails and soul out and leave you exhausted

@circleofleaves2676 17 күн бұрын

Yay, so happy to see Far From the Madding Crowd on this list. I love that book. Carolyn, the copy you have, the Penguin English Library edition with the bees on the front, is an edition I've wanted for awhile. I have an older paperback copy. I would love to re-read it. Absolutely worth your time! In the movie, Carey Mulligan plays a wonderful Bathsheba Everdeen.

@sausana2501 17 күн бұрын

I loveeee the Count!! Reading East of Eden now and also enjoying it so so much! Other huge books I love are crime and punishment, Anna Karenina, Gone with the Wind, and a tree grows in Brooklyn! (Gone with the wind was the fastest to get through and most entertaining)

@LyndaDS 9 күн бұрын

I’ve read “The Count” twice! It’s my favorite novel. I say this as a Harvard graduate student of literature - someone who reads a LOT of classics.

@nicolejordan5977 17 күн бұрын

Have you ever read Middlemarch? It’s absolutely amazing despite the length. Very worth it!

@TheLinguistsLibrary 17 күн бұрын

Your green eyes are popping today! Great list love the Brontes and Du Maurier

@kurlykaitlyn 17 күн бұрын

Everything she says about monte Cristo 🙌🙌🙌👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️😍 it is the best!! I plan to read it in French

@hollyc4624 16 күн бұрын

Great list! These are definitely classics that are worth the time and the length of the books. Don’t worry, East of Eden is as great as you think! I read it in January this year and adored it. I love Steinbeck’s writing. I would recommend The Grapes of Wrath as well. I’m currently rereading Pride and Prejudice and rereading 1Q84 for Game of Tomes. I just finished Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry and highly recommend it. That is a western but not in the way you think. The characters are deep and the plot is fantastic. It is such a wonderful book.

@Count_Deangeli 15 күн бұрын

Excellent presentation Carolyn

@nevel-luna5070 17 күн бұрын

Thank you for the recommendations! I read the Princess Bride in part 1 of your video and I thought the book was really good!

@denisefreitas6727 17 күн бұрын

A lot of books i also love on your list, Carolyn! The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Wuthering Heights, Sense and Sensibility, and Chilhood, Boyhood, Youth, great books! Oh! Please read Jude the obscure! It's brilliant!

@rchhtt5210 17 күн бұрын

If you loved Wuthering Heights you will love Jamaica Inn. Its a retelling of Wuthering Heights. I have read both and they are both two of my favorite books of all time! ❤ It's a wild ride! It pulled me out of a reading slump.

@martinelanglois3158 17 күн бұрын

Thank you! 🥰

@user-ht5zg7ex5z 17 күн бұрын

I totally agree with you about the Lord of the Rings I read them every year for 10 years. They are great. You are great.

@malissamoench8587 16 күн бұрын

Jamaica Inn is my next read from Du Maurier, too. Let's read it together!

@bujobyfilo 16 күн бұрын

I read it last year, another great one!

@JoyForney 16 күн бұрын

I LOVE so many of these books....I adore Rebecca and can't wait to read My Cousin Rachel. I am currently reading The Brothers Karamozov and then I will completed this list! Although, my HEART books were in your last video....Anna K. and Jane Eyre are my two forever favorites. Another I love but didn't see listed is David Copperfield. :) Thanks for these amazing videos! You are the best!

@eugerodriguez8175 17 күн бұрын

Love this!!!

@madzkodyy 15 күн бұрын

East of Eden is my current read too, and I completely agree! I'm less then 200 pages in and I can already tell it will be a favorite of mine as well.

@vintagelace7076 3 күн бұрын

Rebecca is my favorite classic of all time. Right now I'm reading phantom of the Opera

@jaydas8976 14 күн бұрын

The count of Monte Cristo is one of my favorite classics of all time. I really felt like I was on the adventure as I was reading it. It was so immersive for me. I also just recently read the Tenant of Wildfell Hall and I really enjoyed it as well. I adore the Brontë sisters, they all have incredible books. Wuthering heights is my personal favorite.

@surcitta 13 күн бұрын

Enjoyed this video very much. I'm also a fan of Thomas Hardy. I don't know if you've read these other books by him but they are fabulous - The Return of the Native, The Woodlanders, A Pair of Blue Eyes and my own favourite, The Mayor of Casterbridge. I share your love of The Lord of the Rings and the Bronte sisters. I plan to add your other recommendations to my TBR pile. Thank you for making them.

@stardustajm8618 8 күн бұрын

I feel like Tolkien gets a lot of complaints about being too slow and too descriptive but I feel like that's exaggeration because he's not that bad? He's also funnier than you expect. I also highly recommend listening to the movie soundtracks while reading LOTR, it really elevates the experience.

@oblomovtheunknown 17 күн бұрын

Love literature vlogs. Always gets one zooming off to read another book! I think I would definitely add novels by German language writers including Zweig, Mann and Kafka. I find Andrei Bely's novel to be simply brilliant. Another Austrian work that should be read (IMO) Robert Musil's "The Man without Qualities." There are numerous others. Not forgetting the Japanese writers like Mishima and Tanizaki. Thank you for your inspirational vlogs.

@bujobyfilo 16 күн бұрын

Daphne Du Maurier is one of my favorite writer and My Cousin Rachel is my favorite book of hers! I've read it twice and I want to read everything she's ever written

@yogininamaste 16 күн бұрын

What a great list. I am half way through Anna Karenina and enjoying it very much. I have war and peace on my list thank sto you :) Your list resemble mine lol Count Mounte Cristo is next and Brothers Karamazov fallow. Love Dostoyvsky! Yes, for my cousin Rachel. thank you

@capturedbyannamarie 16 күн бұрын

I just read My Cousin Rachel. It’s so good. Also, the Tenent of Wildfell Hall is my second favorite Bronte book. I would say Wuthering Heights is my absolute favorite. Jane Austen’s books are just home for me. They are lovely. I don’t think I have read one that I disliked. I loved Brothers Karamazov as well. Just soo good! The last two books I need to read. They have been on my TBR list.

@ba-gg6jo 15 күн бұрын

Thomas Hardy is my favourite English author, though Jude the Obscure is a bit depressing! Quite a selection. Thanks.

@roseNthorn 17 күн бұрын

I’m so glad you loved LotR! It’s my favorite book of all time! However, I did not care for East of Eden, it was too disturbing by the end for me.

@Lesenok555 10 күн бұрын

I don’t know if you’re already mentioned it in another video, but Gone with the wind. Worth every page!

@CarolynMarieReads 10 күн бұрын

I actually haven’t read it yet 👀 but it’s on my list!!!

@myweakness1883 17 күн бұрын

I have such a love/hate relationship with classics 😂 But I loved both Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, I'll definitely give Anne Bronte a chance!

@katarina.tauber 17 күн бұрын

I just wondered, if you might like Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake. He was a british writer and illustrator and a contemorary of Tolkien. I guess Gormenghast inspired the Goth Girl books by Chris Riddell which are also a recommendation. It might be enough to read book one of the trilogy though. The plot is secondary, but the language is so interesting... And some of the characters are hilarious!

@nka30 15 күн бұрын

I can’t imagine any other book ever being my favourite over The Lord Of the Rings. Still my fave after so many books later.

@MaxCabralXarimaX 9 күн бұрын

this year I read les mis bc of your first video 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

@m.ei_j3702 17 күн бұрын

Another great one is in search of lost time ,reallly worth it

@projekt3658 16 күн бұрын

Carolyn, give it a try to read The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann if you have not yet. 😅 And post us how many days, or months or years you took to read that awesome book.

@MarcelOdaimi 16 күн бұрын

Just started East of Eden (sorry but it’s an audio book ) ,love it ! Thanks .

@clairebott1539 17 күн бұрын

Hi Carolyn, I don’t think I’ve ever heard you mention anything about the English Novelist D.H. Lawrence. He wrote Son’s and Lovers, The Rainbow, Lady Chatterly’s Lover…. I’ve always enjoyed his work. His prose is very poetic so I think you would enjoy it. He may be a little out of favour at the moment but I don’t know why. Claire B

@Floridiansince94 17 күн бұрын

Wuthering Heights - in Spanish Cumbres Borrascosas- I remember us in my youth all the girls adoring this novel! Maybe I should rereading now in the original language :)

@jenny-wc8cb 11 күн бұрын

I’m 330 pages into brothers K and i didn’t know the father dies… I wouldn’t say it happens in the beginning of the book☹️

@arouareads 16 күн бұрын

nice list

@leosmalllion4942 17 күн бұрын

Lord of the Ring is so good! I'm reading the Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas ( the same who wrote the Comte of Monte Cristo) and is worth it. There is a new french movie adaptation of the Comte of Monte Cristo so if you could watch it it was so good.

@the_blue_mushroom_ 17 күн бұрын

Wow,I have just started reading it,And I'm loving it!

@theresas709 16 күн бұрын

My Sense and Sensibility doesn't even have 300 pages. Yours must have a lot of extras. East of Eden is a fav. of mine.

@andyiswonderful 13 күн бұрын

OK OK OK, I will be listening to The Count of Monte Cristo on Audio while I work out. It is 49 hours long, so I will let you know my opinion at Christmas.

@neshkavirdure8289 17 күн бұрын

Thank You So Much For These Awesome Book Recommendations😊📚I'm So Glad You Likes Lord Of The Rings😊👍👍I am Still Lingering in Middle-Earth for Awhile😊👍👍📚

@zinaberger8211 17 күн бұрын

I'm starting to read the brothers karamazov and wuthering heights is the best book that I read

@lilaccottage 15 күн бұрын

I would be interested in seeing which books you feel were a waste of time.

@RideStorm17 17 күн бұрын

I think it’s interesting that if Game of Tomes, you didn’t include Middlemarch. Which I understand. I am still struggling to finish it!

@mm34815 17 күн бұрын

One of my favorite classics, but DEFINITELY not as long as these books, is All Quiet on the Western Front. Have you read it?

@raoulhery 17 күн бұрын

Once you've read Wuthering Heights, the other Bronte novels pale in comparison. It's a classic among classics.

@rich_in_paradise 17 күн бұрын

I bought a single HARDBACK volume of LotR. I'm only a few chapters in and I regret it already 😂

@brittanyallemanayers3447 16 күн бұрын

I just recently heard of a long (1,000+ pages) Norwegian classic called Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset. I have not read it, but I put it on my list. Curious if any of you wonderful people have read it and what did you think of it?

@danielle8455 7 күн бұрын

I read it about 3 years ago. Really liked it as I did not know much about medieval life in Norway. Honestly I couldn't put it down. Beautiful descriptive winter scenes. The main character grows so much in the story. She has faults and at times I didnt like her but I rooted for her. I wish the author wrote more novels.

@staygoldponyboy8881 17 күн бұрын

I finished The Brothers Karamazov last week and as much I enjoy a bit of philosophical reflection I found certain parts, Father Zosima's ramble and Ivan's poem, a bit long winded and the female characters, Gruyshenka and Mademe Kholhokov in particular, a tad annoying at times. Great book but personally I much prefer Crime an Punishment.

@martinelanglois3158 17 күн бұрын

I want to read LOTR but its size frightens me. I have had the book for over 10 years. Any tip for me please?

@andrewesquibel9614 17 күн бұрын

Please tell me that you read Appendix B at the end of Lord of the Rings! It's SO good... soo heartbreaking..

@cherokeejack3502 17 күн бұрын

I just couldn't get into LOTR...

@mrsmarfaasmr3259 17 күн бұрын

Same. They just, walk, walk and walk. I’ve only just finished the first part. What a torture

@cherokeejack3502 17 күн бұрын

@@mrsmarfaasmr3259 IKR?!! 😄I got to the point toward the end where I was just flipping pages, couldn't take it anymore.

@Floridiansince94 17 күн бұрын

What do you mean “my husband”? Did you get married ? Awwww congratulations!!! What a beautiful bride you must have been!

@mrsfruity76 17 күн бұрын

Carolyn and Leon are married now. She posted a video a few weeks ago🙂.

@Tolstoy111 16 күн бұрын

Wuthering Heights isn't long at all.

@danderson6290 6 күн бұрын

Unpopular opinion. I find Lord of the Rings overrated. I have listened to so many better fantasy books. I personally couldn't wait for the books to end so i could move on to something else. Skip the books and watch the movies. So much better.

@strikerpaty 4 күн бұрын

Wuthering Heights is my favourite book ❤ 🥹 The count of MC is my third, maybe, after anna karenina. But will look for the ones I have not read yet. And indeed you finish it wanting ro read it again. All of them.