Great Books I Wouldn’t Want to Be In (And Some I Would!)

Great Books I Wouldn’t Want to Be In (And Some I Would!)
A detail from “Reading Woman” (portrait of artist's wife), after 1866, by Ivan Kramskoy. Public Domain
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If there’s something book lovers like almost as much as reading books, it’s talking about books. About the plot details. About the characters. About the meaning. We feel for and with the characters. We immerse ourselves in the details. We virtually put ourselves into the stories.

Just for fun, I thought I would imagine what it would be like to be a character in the works of a selection by well-known authors. I imagined myself being an inhabitant in the world and story the author created, not always the protagonist, and not necessarily as myself. It turns out, I would not like to be in many of them as much as I enjoyed reading them.