5 I can't wait to read:
1) Eco, Umberto: The Name of the Rose Austen, Jane: Mansfield Park
2) Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
3) Maugham, W. Somerset: Of Human Bondage
4) Waugh, Evelyn: Brideshead Revisited
5) Woolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
5 I'm hesitant to read:
6) Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales
7) Joyce James: Ulysses
8) Milton, John: Paradise Lost
9) Hugo, Victor: Les Miserables
10) Ovid: Metamorphoses
5 I really don't know what to expect from
11) Stoppard, Tom: Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead
12) Rand, Ayn: Atlas Shrugged
13) Du Maurier, Daphne: Rebecca
14) Eliot, George: Middlemarch - now I know!! But I'll let it be :)
15) Apuleius, Lucius: The Golden Ass
1 I just can't finish:
16) One Thousand and One Nights - still cannot finish it! But I'm 75% done with it already which means there are only about 700 pages left, what a trifle :)
4 Random:
18) Twain, Mark: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
19) Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: The Lost World
I really liked all four of the ones I've read on this list (Mansfield Park, Little Women, Great Expectations, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court). I hope you get the one you want!
ReplyDeleteWow, seven hundred pages left (and 75% through!) in One Thousand and One Nights. . .I'm a little nervous about reading that one now! It's not on my Classics Club list, but it's on my reading list in general. Say, aren't there two volumes?
I guess it depends on the edition... I have an e-book, which is 3700 pages long, around 700 of which is commentary. But it may be shorter in English, because I read it in Russian translation :)
DeleteI'm sorry to hear about your experience with Middlemarch -- I had a bad first experience with Eliot but I took the plunge and ended up loving it, though I admit the first 100 pages were a little dry. (However, I started Daniel Deronda and got stuck halfway through -- I'll get back to it someday). Rebecca is absolutely wonderful and a very fast read. Not really literature but great nonetheless. Great Expectations and Of Human Bondage are both just wonderful. I read them in college and loved them, and I still love them years later. Good luck with your spin selection!
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