I had a similar reaction to “The Brothers Karamazov,” another recent read it made me go back to and better appreciate “Crime and Punishment” and to commit to read all of Dostoyevsky’s oeuvre. It left me no choice but to systematically read everything of his.
I picked up “The Adventures of Augie March” during the darkest days of the Covid pandemic. I had only sampled Saul Bellow (“Humboldt’s Gift”) when I was in my 20s. Are there any classic novels that you only recently read for the first time? I’m drawn to big epic novels, and this was all that at over 800 pages (but still, a pamphlet compared to “Harrison’s”). My ambition is always to read it cover to cover before the next edition, but for the last five editions I haven’t come close. van Dijk “The Best Strangers in the World,” by Ari Shapiro “The Passenger,” by Cormac McCarthy and at the bottom, the two volumes of “Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine,” a book that I’ve had a love affair with ever since I encountered the seventh edition in 1974. The stack reflects the overlapping compartments of my life: Daniel Mason’s “North Woods” (in galley form) “Images of Memorable Cases: 50 Years at the Bedside,” by Herbert L.
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