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During the past 3 years I’ve started to read more classic writers that I missed when I was younger. That means most of them because I thought that dead writer= bad writer, with the exception of Russian authors. Some of these authors I was eager to read, some less. Goethe is one of the latter ones, I knew he was important but it did not attract me at all. I decided on The Sorrows of Young Werther as the introduction with the writer because it was short and in prose. The small novel totally exceeded my expectations and I gulped it in almost one go. I was surprised that it was so readable although the subject wasn’t too pleasing, hint the Sorrows from the title, and the epistolary format is not usually exciting.

The subject is not something out of the ordinary, the young artist falls in love with a woman who is promised to another man and his “sorrows� are expressed through letters to his friend. However, I was touched by Werther’s pain, although it was a bit too melodramatic at times, an obsession which cannot end well, as they usually don’t.

I am excited that the first book of the year received maximum grades and I can’t wait to see what more the year brings.