Are there any books that are perceived as patrician by others

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>>7864388
That's not how you spell Tolstoy.

all of them. why do people keep insisting reading isn't fun?
>>7864393
You mean Lermontov?

The Count of Monte Cristo or any of Dumas' works for that matter.

If you like literature this is all good books. Maybe not page-turners, because it might be slow reading, but you don't want to stop.

blood meridian is the opposite of pageturner

>>7864410
this

Middlemarch. It's like a soap opera.
The bell jar.
Ruslan and lyudmila (Pushkin)
The cancer ward (Solzhenitsyn)
Dead souls
Dostoevsky in general
Jane eyre

>>7864429
What is the opposite of pageturner?

>>7864350
Plutarch, Tacitus.

>>7864645
Not him but a page turner is a book that you sit down to read and you get so engrossed in it that you keep reading page after page without even realizing it. I would imagine that the opposite of a page turner is a book that you frequently have to put down and stop reading before you can continue.

>>7864350
>>7864674
so why a book can't be patrician and pageturner at the same time?

>>7864645
Pages stick together. A dextereader?

>>7864350
The Monk

>>7864700
There's no inherent opposition, it's just that pageturners tend to be crime novels or pop stuff, while The Western Canon deals with deeper questions about the meaning of life but is less easily entertaining.