Do's and Don'ts of Reading Classics

hi I'm Kailey and I am here to tell you  the do's and don'ts of reading classics. so I have read a lot of classics over many  many years and I have my favorite authors   and my favorite books. and I've tackled some  pretty large classics and some small ones. I'm   kind of picky about what I call a classic. to  me anything that was written before World War   one is a classic. anything was written after  World War one is a modern classic. there's a   definite shift in the way that books were written  right around World War one. so 1914 1915 right in   there is kind of the cutoff to my mind anyway. so  while the tips and advice I'm about to give you   certainly apply to modern classics as I wrote my  list of do's and don'ts I was thinking of classic   classics from before World War one. so I'm sure  that many people have different ideas of what a   classic means to them. I'm just telling you what  a classic means to me. so my very first piece   of advice is don't bite off more than you can  chew. if you're not used to reading classics do   not start with war and peace. do not start with  Moby Dick. those are massive books and they're   very dense. start with something small and short.  and something that's you know a little easier to   read. just because it isn't war and peace doesn't  mean that it doesn't have value, and doesn't mean   that you shouldn't be proud of yourself for having  read that classic. number two, do find an author   that you like and then read all of their books.  so if you read one Dickens book and you find,   hey I really like Dickens, go and find some more  of his books and read more of his stuff. or if   you read Sir Walter Scott and you decide, man I  just love the Walter Scott. I gonna read all his   stuff. please do that. because you found you know  you found your bliss and so just follow it. just   read it all. number three, don't get bogged down  in the language. a lot of the time with classics,   the language even the sentence structure can be  kind of complex. don't let that intimidate you.   a lot of the time they're trying to get across  a pretty simple idea, but they're just using   really big flowery language. so you don't have to  understand every single word. as long as you get   the general gist of what's going on, then you're  fine. you know the story. you understand what's   happening. just because there's a few words  that you know they're not in your vocabulary,   that's okay . you don't have to know every word.  number four is do get a dictionary app. I love   learning new words and expanding my vocabulary. so  if you're sitting there reading a classic ,and you   come across the word you don't understand, that  is awesome. just whip out that app on your cell   phone, and look up the word. on my cell phone  I have a Webster's dictionary. and it doesn't   take up very much memory. and I love that thing.  it can be really helpful to have a dictionary   app right at your fingertips. you come across  words you don't know. and boom! you just learned   something new .number five is don't read too fast.  a lot of the time there's very dense writing in   classics. and the story can be very complex. the  story structure is all over the place. and you   have to take your time. don't expect that you're  going to read a classic at the same rate that you   normally read. it's probably going to take a  little bit longer, because classics tend to be   longer books. and then because the writing tends  to be more dense. the plots tend to be a little   more complex. there's a lot more going on in the  plots than maybe we're used to in modern writing.   so don't go into it thinking, oh I'm just going  to read this in three days. you know even I don't   do that. don't be afraid to just take your time.  take a month and read it . take you know a while   longer than you usually would read it. and don't  get frustrated when it takes longer. classics just   take longer. number six is do take a break. if you  start getting bogged down and you're starting to   get frustrated, and the classic just feels like  it's way too long. take a little break. go read   something else that's fluffy and fun for a few  days. and then come back to the classic. and that   little break will refresh you. you'll be ready to  dive back in. number seven is don't give up! yes,   take a break. but don't completely give up.  make sure you actually come back and finish   reading the classic. trust me there are so  many classics: they start out really slow,   and then finally in the middle things will start  to pick up, and the ending is so worth it. please   please don't give up on classics. it is worth  it in the end, I promise. and number eight is   do explore different types of classics. some  people think all classics are made alike.   and I'm here to tell you, they're not. you can  explore different genres, different eras. I mean   classics from different centuries and different  decades will be completely different from each   other. different authors will have completely  different writing styles. not all classics are   made alike. so the best thing that you can do is  explore different types of genres, and authors,   and eras until you find your thing that you  really love. and then you are well on your   way to enjoying reading classics. please leave a  comment down below and let me know, what are your   favorite classics? and what was it that first got  you loving reading classics? The link to a little   quiz where you can send me some feedback about  my channel has been taken down. It is no longer   available. The charity for the missionary kids  has been closed down. please subscribe. thanks for   watching. and remember the right book in the right  hands at the right time can change the world.

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Length: 6min 28sec (388 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 04 2017