Stadi's Classics

[Stadi]

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

[Stadi]

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. :sarcastic:
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.