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Originally Posted by 3894 (Post 333099)

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
I read about half the stories but almost none of the connective text.

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
I was a history minor in college and while studying abroad I read it in a British history of the united state class

Ulysses by James Joyce
I tried I really did. I love mythology & I love the Odyssey but I got about half way through and just gave up.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Yes I went through a Dickens' faze where I read basically everything I could unabridged.

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Yes my parents had a copy and I wanted to see what the contraversy was about. Frankly I didn't like it much. Magical realism is oddly not my thing.

Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Yes it was long but I was thinking about the Navy as a career. It was good but could have been 100 pages shorter but was not a hard read.

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
no, barely even heard of it

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
No but I want to. I know its not a hard read but I just haven gotten around to it.

Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
I have started a couple of times but not finished

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Yes loved the movie loved the book, one of the few that the movie was as good as the book.

Don Quixote by Cervantes
Yes I loved the idea and the time period so it was one of my favorite reads.

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Yes read it, Crime and Punishment, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and The Gulag Archipelago all in one year. It was a very odd year.

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Again I started it but only got about 5 pages in. I really don't get Stream of Consciousness writing. I read all of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man but it took all I had to finish and that book is both shorter and easier or so I understand.

So total
7 read
3 started
3 nos

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Originally Posted by Not Afraid (Post 333110)

Oh how I love Candide.

Me too. Short, satirical and worth frequent revisits. (and the Bernstein musical has some of the most glorious melodies ever devised)

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Originally Posted by flippyshark (Post 333112)

Me too. Short, satirical and worth frequent revisits. (and the Bernstein musical has some of the most glorious melodies ever devised)

I love Kristen Chenoweth's take on "Glitter and be Gay."

I've read small portions of the Canterbury Tales, and I've read Ulysses, though I don't remember a lick of it.

I HAVE read both the Odyssey (twice) AND the Illiad.

3 - Satanic Verses, Moby Dick, and Name of the Rose - I enjoyed 2 of the 3

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Originally Posted by frodo potter (Post 333111)

So total
7 read
3 started
3 nos

Hmm, I wasn't assigned these, so here are some that I was assigned that I couldn't get through.

Pride and Prejudice
Crime and Punishment
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
There are tons more that I can't remember.

On the other hand, I loved Shakespeare (Macbeth, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Much Ado About Nothing), Lord of the Flies, and, my mind just went blank....there are more on this list too.

Cliff Notes got me through British Lit in high school.

I love to read but I hated nearly every book we had to read.

I love 'Pride and Prejudice'- have it on my nightstand now. :)

I love Russian history and lit as well. 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' is one of the best novellas ever written, IMHO. Dostoevsky can be a hard slog- I think Tolstoy is much easier to read, although Dostoevsky is pretty good at depicting madness and desperation in his characters, and he offers a strong glimpse into the customs, mores and daily lives of the pre-Revolution citizenry.

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Originally Posted by wendybeth (Post 333127)

I love 'Pride and Prejudice'- have it on my nightstand now. :)

I have 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' on MY nightstand. ( I have read the real version, and I love it.)

And I want to read 'War and Peace'.