Stadi Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Now Reading: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet (If I can find it) Read: ***** Bram Stoker - Dracula **** Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice *** Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days *** H. G. Wells - The Time Machine *** H. G. Wells - The Invisible Man ** Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray ** Mary Shelley - Frankenstein TBR Pile: (Books I already own but still haven't read - shame on me) Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales George Orwell - 1984 (Yes I'm smuggling this one in here since it's the only modern classic I own) Wishlist: (Books I might want to buy or borrow from the library) The Epic of Gilgamesh Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Wilkie Collins - Moonstone Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet Robert W. Chambers - The King in Yellow Joseph Bédier - Tristan and Iseult Suetonius - The Twelve Caesars Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White Virgil - The Aeneid Mark Twain - The Innocents Abroad Anthony Trollope - The Way We Live Now Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina Homer - The Odyssey Homer - Iliad Thomas Malory - Le Morte d'Arthur Thomas More - Utopia John Milton - Paradise Lost Alexandre Dumas - The Black Tulip St. Augustine - Confessions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stadi Posted May 1, 2007 Author Share Posted May 1, 2007 I just finished reading Frankenstein (by Mary Shelley) ** It was an okay book, but it wasn't nearly as scary as I was led to believe ;b. In fact, for me this wasn't horror at all. To begin with I didn't really know much about the storyline so I'm glad I read it if only to know what it is exactly that's written in the book. As I understand it many of the movies get it quite wrong. I was also quite surprised to find myself liking the monster a lot more than his creator, and I'm not sure that was intended. Let's just say I really liked the idea of the book, but I was fairly disappointed at the way it was executed. The language is flowery; the characters weren't very believable; the women were weak, flat characters, the 'hero' was chauvinistic, annoying and stupid, and I actually wanted to slap some sense into him at the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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