Lu
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Post by Lu on Jan 14, 2007 12:32:43 GMT -5
I'd like to Great Expectation, Oliver Twist and David Copperfield by Dickens and Vanity Fair.
I've started to read Wuthering Heights, but I had to stop because I don't like it...maybe I'll try to read it again.
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sagedautumn
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Post by sagedautumn on Jan 21, 2007 18:02:15 GMT -5
Vanity Fair is an amazing book... It's so much better than the movie with Reese Witherspoon. I mean don't get me wrong... she did her best but it just wasn't pictured the way i wanted it or should have been pictured
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Post by Isa on Jan 22, 2007 8:14:02 GMT -5
I haven't read the novel but I thought the movie was pretty lame so I figured the book had to be so much more better!
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bookworm148
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Post by bookworm148 on Jan 31, 2007 11:18:51 GMT -5
I really need to get through my complete Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe
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Post by gilmoreren on Jan 31, 2007 15:51:01 GMT -5
Hmmm.....
Will read all the Austens (have only done half so far)
Also, will attempt to read Ulysses again at some point
And try Heaney's translation of Beowulf
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sagedautumn
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Post by sagedautumn on Mar 4, 2007 15:39:29 GMT -5
I AM Currently trying to read sense and sensibility
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Mar 4, 2007 16:17:32 GMT -5
S&S is my favourite Austen...but P&P follows closely.
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Mar 5, 2007 3:26:34 GMT -5
P&P is my favourite Jane Austen's, but I also enjoyed much Persuasion and S&S.
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Michelle
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Post by Michelle on Mar 5, 2007 10:14:20 GMT -5
I would like to read more Jane Austen, too. I've only read Pride and Prejudice and Emma. I own Sense and Sensibility, but I haven't felt like investing the time into it yet.
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Post by florence on Mar 5, 2007 10:51:45 GMT -5
Also, will attempt to read Ulysses again at some point Ulysses? Gilmoreren, you are so brave!
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Mar 5, 2007 14:04:40 GMT -5
I've read all Jane Austen except the last 2 parts of Mansfield Park. I have it so I can finish it soon. I also have to read her letters to Cassandra which is on hold from the library. I've read her other juvenila.
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bookworm148
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Post by bookworm148 on Mar 6, 2007 9:55:10 GMT -5
Persuasion
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Post by Bina on Mar 6, 2007 16:23:35 GMT -5
Old school, although I guess it´s more of a modern classic. And I´m determined to tackle Tom Jones at some point.
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Post by Isa on Mar 7, 2007 8:46:48 GMT -5
I've read Tom Jones and I thought it was a fun read! And it didn't take me that long to get through it.
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Michelle
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Post by Michelle on Mar 7, 2007 9:15:40 GMT -5
Ben and I found a list of the top 100 novels/plays (although we could never find that exact list again) and we have been working our way through it. We put all of the books on pieces of paper in Tios cups and we pull out which is the next one we read. It's kind of a good way of making sure we read all of those great books - when a title comes out of the cup, we have to read it. My next one if Frankenstein. His is Ivanhoe.
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