![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘The Year of Reading Dangerously’ isn’t intended to be a bluffer’s guide to fifty classic novels and the list itself is “neither a prescription nor a set of numbered instructions” (p. This is also the conclusion which Miller arrived at when he finished the classic Russian novel which inspired him to create his so-called “List of Betterment”. I read ‘ The Master and Margarita‘ by Mikhail Bulgakov not long ago and although I didn’t understand all of it, I’m glad I’ve read it. Going back to some of the classics I have long intended to read and other older books which have been on my reading list for some time is something I have been thinking about a lot recently. After years of pretending to have read classic novels he had never even glanced at and realising that the only book he had read was ‘The Da Vinci Code’ by Dan Brown in the three years since becoming a parent, Miller set about finally getting round to some of the great works of literature which had passed him by for so long. ‘The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life’ is Andy Miller’s account of his journey through reading fifty books he had always intended to read. ![]()
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