~Andrea~ Posted October 16, 2008 Posted October 16, 2008 (edited) I've not read nearly enough classics so I am going to try and rectify that. Here is a list of all classics I've ever read (up until starting this challenge): Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Dracula - Bram Stoker Tess of the Durbervilles - Thomas Hardy The Mill on the Floss - George Elliot The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde Silas Marner - George Elliot Shakespeare: Hamlet, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, A Midsummer Nights Dream Books read since starting the challenge (that aren't on the hit list): The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo Crime And Punishment - Dostoyevski Great Expectations - Dickens The Mayor of Castorbridge - Thomas Hardy King Lear - Shakespeare And here is my hit list: Persuasion - Jane Austen Anna Karenina/War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy King Lear - Shakespeare Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy The Iliad - Homer Chekhov The Alchemist - Ben Jonson Bold = read Edited October 4, 2011 by ~Andrea~ Quote
~Andrea~ Posted October 16, 2008 Author Posted October 16, 2008 Started Austen's Persuasion last night. Quote
~Andrea~ Posted December 4, 2008 Author Posted December 4, 2008 My comments on Persuasion are here Quote
Ruth Posted December 4, 2008 Posted December 4, 2008 Oh, I love Persuasion - my favourite Austen book. I'd take Wentworth over D'arcy, any day! Quote
Guest ii Posted December 7, 2008 Posted December 7, 2008 Oh, I love Persuasion - my favourite Austen book. I'd take Wentworth over D'arcy, any day! As I'm sure I've said before, you'd have to fight me! *grin* Quote
~Andrea~ Posted January 3, 2009 Author Posted January 3, 2009 I'm currrently reading Thomas Hardy - Far from the madding crowd, and loving it. When reading this I feel I am in the presence of a truly great writer. I'll save my thoughts for the reading circle thread - how tantalising it is with the new 'no spoiler tag' rule. I wonder if I can resist the urge to go in there before I've finished the book... Quote
Rovijo Posted February 14, 2009 Posted February 14, 2009 Which translation of the Iliad did you read? I like Richmond Lattimore's. I was introduced to this on course at Birkbeck College, I can't read anyone els's now. It is a verse translation, very colorful and atmospheric. I am going to re read it. Quote
~Andrea~ Posted March 27, 2009 Author Posted March 27, 2009 I'm currently reading The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo. A slow start but hopefully I'll enjoy. I'll comment on it on my main reading blog as I go. Quote
~Andrea~ Posted May 5, 2009 Author Posted May 5, 2009 Finished Notre Dame - required some effort but overall it was well worth it (I had to cheat and skip part of it). My comments are on the reading circle thread Quote
Mirian Posted May 14, 2009 Posted May 14, 2009 Oh, I love Persuasion - my favourite Austen book. I'd take Wentworth over D'arcy, any day! Does that mean I can have Darcy? I like Persuasion too, there's a melancholy or something in it that's missing from the other books. Perhaps its just that it's built around missed opportunity. I loved the Illiad. Read it to and from work for a while, and I missed my stop a few times. Quote
~Andrea~ Posted January 7, 2010 Author Posted January 7, 2010 Ages since I've updated this. Have read King Lear since and some Chekhov short stories. King Lear was hardgoing, enjoyable but not as much as Macbeth. I'd like to see it performed now. Reading plays is a little odd really, since they are meant to be performed. I really like Chekhovs writing style, although the stories are curious, not like modern stories, just short tales really without any particular punchy point or twist, although I suppose Ray Carver is a bit like that too. Quote
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