Comments on "Classics January" - Faerye Net

Re: January classics

2011-02-03T13:14:31+00:00

Not yet! I’m halfway through. Over half, if you account for all the extra material in a Norton Critical.

January classics

2011-02-01T19:18:21+00:00

So, did you finish War and Peace?

Great Idea

2011-01-03T07:25:49+00:00

Of course, I feel overcommitted already to another book, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, but it may be long and gorgeous enough to be considered a classic. I just have to take the time to read at least a little bit every day.

Re: i'm in

2010-12-31T20:25:04+00:00

No more parameters than that? Well, you could always join me in War and Peace. Plenty of room there for two :P

Dickens? David Copperfield is quite good, as I recall. And of course there’s Oliver Twist.

C. Bronte? One is informed by Joanna Russ’s book How to Suppress Women’s Writing that Villette is actually her masterwork, but was long passed over for its frank feminism. (I haven’t read it yet!)

Virginia Woolf? Have you read Mrs. Dalloway? It’s so beautiful it hurts.

Of course, you could read Moby-Dick. It’s delicious.

Can you winnow from there by your lonesome?

i'm in

2010-12-31T19:28:08+00:00

But you have to tell me what to read. You name it, I haven’t read it, so it shouldn’t be hard. But I’ve read all of Austen. (Until they find the secret vault…)