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Post by Isa on May 22, 2007 13:44:51 GMT -5
We've only just started discussing Reading Lolita in Tehran but as it usually takes a while to pick a book for the book club, it might be a good idea to start thinking about which book we'd like to read next. Since we've discussed two contemporary novels, it might be a good idea to go with classics/modern classics this time around. Any suggestions?
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Post by oda on May 22, 2007 14:05:37 GMT -5
What about Dead souls by Gogol or something by Hemingway or Dickens?
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Post by Kristie on May 22, 2007 14:08:19 GMT -5
Well, I know that I haven't read anything by any of the Bronte sisters and there are some books on my TBR list by them, first and foremost Jane Eyre. I'm just going to go through my TBR list and pick the classics, even if many of you have probably read them:
Huckleberry Finn/Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, Great Expectations by Dickens, Mansfield Park by Austen, Tales from the 1001 Nights, Vanity Fair, Wizard of Oz, The End of the Affair by Greene, Ethan Frome, Gulliver's Travels, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Lady Chatterly's Lover, Madame Bovary, and The Voyages of Doctor Doolittle.
Those are mostly old classics because I'm not really sure what counts as a new classic. I don't feel very strongly on any one in particular, but I would love to read a Bronte (Jane Eyre, Villette, Wuthering Heights)
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Post by oda on May 22, 2007 14:11:12 GMT -5
You should read Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights! They are beautiful:)
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Post by katiaisme on May 22, 2007 14:25:47 GMT -5
Yeah Jane Eyre because I have not read it yet.
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Post by sagedautumn on May 22, 2007 15:04:27 GMT -5
I would love to read Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte or maybe something Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Wuthering Heights could tie in really nicely with a possible Thirteenth Tale Discussion!!
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Post by andrea disaster on May 22, 2007 16:52:57 GMT -5
I was going to suggest both Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights and I see they already have been. Those Bronte girls must be something... if it was between the two, I go with Jane Eyre.
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Post by Isa on May 22, 2007 17:25:03 GMT -5
I'd really like to read Mrs. Dalloway or The End of the Affair, because I've never read anything by Woolfe or Greene. I guess I wouldn't mind re-reading Wuthering Heights, or one of the lesser known Bronte novels (I've read Jane Eyre so many times, sorry!). I'd also really like to read something by Kurt Vonnegut, maybe Cat's Cradle or Slaughterhouse-5?
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on May 22, 2007 18:36:34 GMT -5
I'd really like to read Mrs. Dalloway or The End of the Affair, because I've never read anything by Woolfe or Greene. I guess I wouldn't mind re-reading Wuthering Heights, or one of the lesser known Bronte novels (I've read Jane Eyre so many times, sorry!). I'd also really like to read something by Kurt Vonnegut, maybe Cat's Cradle or Slaughterhouse-5? I like all of your suggestions! A Woolfe would be great - I just bought To the Lighthouse. I also, of course, would love to do a Vonnegut. I've been wanting to re-read Slaughterhouse Five.
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Post by sagedautumn on May 22, 2007 20:05:22 GMT -5
i agree with the fact that reading Jane Eyre, again really would be tedious! I've read Wuthering Heights but there really is so much analysis and speculation and suspense that I wouldn't mind as much....
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Post by bookaddict on May 22, 2007 21:41:03 GMT -5
i agree with the fact that reading Jane Eyre, again really would be tedious! I've read Wuthering Heights but there really is so much analysis and speculation and suspense that I wouldn't mind as much.... I agree! I would love to do a Vonnegut novel, a lesser known Bronte Novel or an Austen novel. Maybe "The Moon is Down" by Steinbeck. Or an Edith Warton novel. Perhaps, a collection of Short Stories or some short stories by Dorothy Parker or another author (Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Plath...).
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Post by Dominique on May 22, 2007 23:12:52 GMT -5
I've already read Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by the Brontes, but I wouldn't mind reading a lesser known one like Shirley.
I think I would prefer a Woolf however, I haven't read her before but I have a copy of a selection of her work and I have a feeling there would be a fair bit to discuss about it. Also I don't think her books are very long? Making them suitable for bookclub.
I would also like to do a Hemmingway, other suggestions I have are Tender is the Night by F.Scott Fitsgerald, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvior ( I noticed most people on here haven't read her yet according to the thread on her). I'm also all for Austen, Ethan Frome and Dead Souls as have already been suggested. Oh and maybe 100 years of solitude by marquez. Hmm I will have a little think on if I can come up with anything else.
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Post by Lu on May 23, 2007 4:19:47 GMT -5
I like almost all your suggstions!
I think it would be great doing a Vonnegut novel, Wuthering Heights (I have to give it another try ;D ), 100 years of solitude or vanity fair (they're both on my TBR pile from ages), something by Steinbeck, Edith Wharton or Scott Fitzgerald would be great too. I haven't read anything by Dorothy Parker yet but I'd love to, so it would be a good way to start.
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Post by Hanna on May 23, 2007 4:30:16 GMT -5
We've had both Wuthering Heights and Sense and Sensibility in our literature class this year, so preferably not one of those, I feel I've done pretty much all the analysis possible on both! But other than that I'm open for almost anything, and you all seem to be having really good suggestions. I second Oda about Dead Souls though.
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