vinay87
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Yeah, I've even included him in my book's dedications to thank him.
I wish I could read as efficiently as he could. All in due time I guess.
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I have no clue lol It also contained John Grisham's The Firm!
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I've been searching for a collection of these tales by Alexandre Dumas Pere for quite some time. I have TOR's version of the first part, The Three Musketeers on my shelf but I'm in search of a collection of all the books.
Here's a list from Gutenburg:
1. The Three Musketeers [book 1]
2. Twenty Years After [book 2]
3. The Vicomte de Bragelonne [book 3 : Chapters 1 to 75]
4. Ten Years Later [book 3 : Chapters 76 to 140]
5. Louise de la Valliere [book 3 : Chapters 141 to 208]
6. The Man In The Iron Mask [book 3 : Chapters 209 to 269]
Can anyone point me to a consistent edition (in English) that has all these, with annotations, if possible?
I'm considering taking the Gutenburg e-text, formatting it neatly and getting it printed and leatherbound with nice embossing (yes I am that patient). But all that only if I can't find an edition that has them all.
I wish I can find a hardbound edition that has them all, that would be just beautiful!
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I've read the Readers' Digest version of A Curious Incident a few years ago. I remember loving it a lot! I hope to buy the full edition some day.
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Yes, it depends on what I'm reading. But I like to read a complete chapter at least.
Sometimes, if the book is really good, I never let go until I read at least half of it.
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My mom used to buy me comics as a kid. I remember hating novels until I discovered Enid Blyton. I came into the reading scene pretty late, as I remember it. The real encouragement for reading came to me from a perfect stranger.
I was 10 and I would walk to a circulating library about two blocks away. An old man in his eighties would see me walk past his house everyday. Once, I don't remember when, he stopped me and began asking me if I liked to read. After that he stopped me nearly everyday. I never discovered what his name was. To me, he always has been the "old man who made me read".
He used to tell me to read The Brothers Karamazov someday. He said it was his favourite book. He's passed away now... It has been about seven years since I've last seen him. I still walk past his house sometimes. I miss him every time I pick up a book.
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Hmmm I was shocked to find that The Chronicles Of Narnia is filled with messages/references to Christianity. Besides that, I think I just missed the entire message of Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
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I've had George Eliot's Middlemarch on my TBR for almost a decade now. If anyone's reading it, be sure to tell me and I'll join you guys.
I bought Silas Marner recently. I found the first chapter really interesting. I think I'll read the book soon.
I second reading Sherlock Holmes's adventures. They're a fantastic read!
Hmmm and do read RL Stevenson!! I've found The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde a fascinating read!
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Oooooh I have this book on my TBR!!
I've never participated in the reader's circle before. And neither have I read this book.
I'll start reading the book in between reading my current one. Should be done in about five or six days. I hope I'm not too late.
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I started reading Oliver Twist last night. I read 50 pages without much difficulty which is saying a lot since I have trouble reading Dickens!
Go me!
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Yeah, I've bought a book containing his poems and some of his tales. I'll read those next week.
Sigh, I dropped Victory. I guess I'll give Silas Marner a try now.
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Now for the reviews.
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Sign Of Four
As a kid who grew up reading comics, I've been an Iron Man fan for a long time. The movie made me an instant fan of Robert Downey Jr. And that led me down the road to watch Sherlock Holmes. Now, I'm not forming an image of Holmes from the movie, you must understand, but I found it an amazing idea. I've never really read Sherlock Holmes books until now, I found them boring as a kid when I was obsessed with Dame Christie. But the movie made me curious. And luckily, I'd bought the entire set of Holmes during my May splurge. And although I read A Study In Scarlet last month, I didn't enjoy it as much as I enjoyed The Sign of Four.
It's an excellent story that introduces many characters and once you get used to the idea of Holmes being a drug addict, it changes your experience. Holmes at onces becomes that eccentric college mate you might have met, genius but bound to his own form of chosen insanity through his drug addiction.
I'm certainly going to look forward to many more such experiences as I read more of the stories amidst my other books.
R L Stevenson - Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
Who doesn't know this story? I'd say everyone who hasn't read it. Even if you have seen the clich�d Hyde character in movies or cartoons or during Halloween, the experience of reading Stevenson's book is at once different. Hyde is loathsome, you will learn to appreciate how a person can change form with a well practiced stoop. Stevenson's style is flawless. Though I was annoyed at the typos with my edition, there were far too many sadly, I found the pace amazing for a classic. While I have read exploratory science fiction by Jules Verne and HG Wells, I cannot believe that I will ever find a telling of a tale as macabre as this one. Though yes, I have yet to taste the concoctions of EA Poe.
I was supposed to have started Oliver Twist on Monday. I'll skip that for now and read Victory by Joseph Conrad.
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Updated the TBR.
I've read The Sign of Four and The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde last month.
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To remember the last day of my bond with education, I bought two books yesterday. One was a cheap copy of Silas Marner by George Eliot and the other was a steal. A hard bound century edition of Pride And Prejudice with excellent paper quality, spectacular painted illustrations and large print. I've never read Austen or Eliot before but while I went in to the bookshop to get just about any one book to commemorate the occasion, I just couldn't miss the chance of getting these.
Total cost? Well, about 3$.
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I've read Jules Verne's A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth and absolutely loved the descriptions of the underground ocean and the way the voyage was depicted.
I need to read more descriptions of oceans and sea voyages mostly for a selfish desire. I have several chapters in my book which take place on the seas. Being aquaphobic, I've never stepped on a boat in my entire life and I don't want to think about the possibility. I'm trying my best to read up on sea travel and on aquatic life, to an extant, but I'll admit that I have other things keeping me busy. So I realised that since A Journey was the inspiration for the voyage scene in my own book, I have a lot to learn from other classics regarding sea travel.
On my TBR I have Moby Dick and Treasure Island. I'm trying to space out similar books, meaning I don't want to read these two side-by-side.
I've just finished The Wizard Of Oz so I'm ready for something serious. I have issues with reading classics but I hope to resolve this soon.
For now, I'd appreciate it if someone helped me choose between these two solely for the descriptive part of it.
I'm also open to other books and I would like it if someone pointed me to a good series that takes place on the seas. Robin Hobb springs to mind though I've never read her series.
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1. Using as a coaster! MUST NEVER DO THIS.
2. Folding pages to mark them. NO!
3. Bending the spine. BLASPHEMY!
4. Touching with wet/unclean hands. BURN THE HERETIC!
5. Never returning the books you borrow and saying you never took them. That's prolly the worst thing.
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My classics mojo seems to be gone. I can't sit through a classic for the life of me.
And what's worse, I've suddenly realised that I'm bad at picturing the scenes depicted in books. I used to be good at it many many years ago but now... after years of wanting to read more rather than read for sheer enjoyment, I've lost the gift.
Can I get it back? I hate admitting I'm becoming a bad reader.
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I just finished L Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz in two sittings today. I feel happy that I read the book. It's a magical story!
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Hmn, let's plagiarise Guilia's format, seems easier than my previously connived paragraph format that no one's going to read.
I have 2 bookshelves out of which one contains fiction and the other contains my engineering books which will be cleared out soon, I hope.
So my fiction shelf:
1st shelf: Tolkien and Robert Jordan at the front; Terry Goodkind, safely hidden from view at the back.
2nd shelf: Classics biggies at the front ( Herodotus, Thucydides, Dickens, Dumas, Hugo, Homer, Cervantes) more classics at the back (Robin Hood, HG Wells and some others)
3rd shelf: Penguin popular classics, Bantam classics at the front along with Chaucer and Milton, Terry brooks and David/Leigh Eddings at the back.
4th shelf: Misc books. Agatha Christie, Alistair Maclean, PG Wodehouse, Stephen King, Grisham, Jeffrey Archer and Shakespeare.
I use LibraryThing, it's really awesome but the limit for 200 books blows. So we make 2 lists
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Fantasy? Enid Blyton?
Well, serious fantasy... The Hobbit.Sci-fi? Dune
Horror? Goosebumps. After that, nothing written has scared me.
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Terry Brooks. He never fails to impress me. I always feel that his next book with be twice as good as his last.
And Robert Jordan. Even his earliest Conan books which people say weren't too good. I love them.
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Hmn...
Harry Potter series, on average 7 times each. Except the Order of the Pheonix, which I read everyday of the month that it released in. And yeah, I read it once a day.
Wheel of time, thrice on paper, once on ebook.
Lord of the Rings thrice.
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Blimey, that's dedication. I doubt I could read a book three times if I hadn't liked it on the first go.
My copy of A Game Of Thrones had this on the review page.
"Fantastic book, I couldn't put it down. ~ Robert Jordan"
And seeing as RJ is my favourite fantasy writer, I just had to force myself to reread the book till I got it. I'm glad I did, the other three books in that series are just awesome. They've even helped me grow as a writer. It's too bad that Martin is such a slow writer. He is about five years late in publishing a book that should have come out in fall 2005.
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In an ancient though not very populous settlement, in a retired corner of one of the New England States, arise the walls of a seminary of learning, which for the convenience of a name, shall be entitled "Harley College."
~ Fanshawe by Nathaniel Hawthorne
This must be one of my favourite first lines. I can just picture the place with that one line!
The D'Artagnan Romances
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Oh wow...
Well I'll take paperbacks if I get them easily. I can't shop online so I'll have to place an order to get them at the bookshops hereabouts.
How are they? I've never read any Oxford world classics before so I'm curious about the annotations, the introduction and stuff.