Classics Considered

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Edition:   LibriVox audiobook (public domain).  This was read by David Barnes, who also recorded Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde .  His reading style is easy to listen to (not too slow or too fast or anything), and I highly recommend it.  My overall rating:  5 out of 5 stars.  This would probably be on my list of must-read's. "One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug." When I first considered reading The Metamorphosis , I had mixed feelings about it.  I had heard it was a classic, and I knew the basic plot.  But was it just going to be another one of those dark, melancholy, speculative books with little or no definite meaning?  It's a short book (the LibriVox recording is only about 2 1/2 hours long).  I decided to give it a try and listen to it in the car, on my way to and from school. The opening sentence above is, I think, f