100 Novels Everyone Should Read
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Jan 2017
2:54pm, 16 Jan 2017
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westmoors
My total is not quite as impressive as yours Daz. On 26 having just finished Cranford.
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May 2017
4:00pm, 2 May 2017
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DazTheSlug
4 more to end April '17 Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes - meh Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë - baaaaad (in a bad way) Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf - SUPERB One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez - good 57 and counting... |
May 2017
4:48pm, 2 May 2017
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Ceratonia
I'd have picked Don Quixote as my favourite of those 4!
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May 2017
4:50pm, 2 May 2017
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McGoohan
I mostly hated Mrs Dalloway
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May 2017
7:20pm, 2 May 2017
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LindsD
I heard The Hours on the radio the other day and remembered that I loved the book and meant to read MrsD. Mind you, my mental to-read list is rather long.
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May 2017
9:22pm, 2 May 2017
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GlennR
Ceratonia, me too. However, I'd concede that the second part is something of a challenge.
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May 2017
9:26pm, 2 May 2017
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Sharkie
I often agree with Daz, but not on this occasion. I actively disliked all the three Ginny Woolf's I've read. I think three is a fair chance. it was a long time ago but I'm not tempted to try again. I love Wuthering Heights. Have only read half of Don Quixote (in English) One Hundred years .... meh. |
May 2017
9:40pm, 2 May 2017
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Diogenes
Couldn't get into Wuthering Heights, although I really wanted to. Enjoyed 100 Years against expectations. Haven't read the other two although I've struggled with Virginia Woolf a couple of times.
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May 2017
10:22pm, 2 May 2017
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LindsD
Hated 100 years, as I think I may have mentioned. Read Wuthering Heights at school. Liked it. |
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May 2017
12:45am, 3 May 2017
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DazTheSlug
I'd been putting off reading any Virginia Woolf, as I was fairly sure I wouldn't like her, but had my prejudice blown away! when I decided, 3 years ago, to start reading "a few classics" VW was one of those (many) AUTHORS OF WHOM I'D OF COURSE HEARD, BUT HAD NEVER READ *ANYTHING* BY looking back, I seem to have covered about 50 such: (in no particular order) Thomas Hardy Emily Bronte W. M. Thackeray Angela Carter Virginia Woolf Ernest Hemingway Gabriel García Márquez Agatha Christie Johann Wolfgang Goethe D. H. Lawrence Jeanette Winterson Graham Greene Thomas Mann David Lodge Jim Thompson Martin Amis Iris Murdoch Mikhail Bulgakov E. M. Forster Ian McEwan Hermann Hesse Nancy Mitford Elmore Leonard Charlotte Bronte Patricia Highsmith Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Albert Camus Paul Auster H. Rider Haggard John le Carré Will Self Fyodor Dostoevsky Malcolm Bradbury Raymond Chandler Julian Barnes Muriel Spark Dashiell Hammet Roddy Doyle F. Scott Fitzgerald Henry James Edgar Rice Burroughs Leo Tolstoy Nick Hornby H. P. Lovecraft Joseph Conrad Franz Kafka George Eliot James Joyce Jane Austen Alexander Pushkin mostly they've all been pretty good to excellent, very few duds (I've left a small no. of *really* bad ones off the list!), I guess classics become classics for a reason (duh!) |
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