The Book Vipers discussion

For 2017 I plan on reading one classic a month at the least. Some classic have been hard to get into. A few I have started but put down I plan to pick back up this year and finish.

My to be finished list is
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Jane Eyre
Gone with the Wind
The Neverending Story

The ones I plan to read are
Alice in Wonderland
Catch-22
The Catcher in the Rye
Animal Farm
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Little Women
Lord of the Flies
Romeo and Juliet

I am not a huge fan of the classics, but can recommend John Steinbeck as one author

I discovered, many years ago, that most classics need about 100 pages to set the scene. Our book group tends to rely on this rule before we quit the book saying " life is to short to finish the book"

I have almost made it through Jane Erye. It was wonderful up until she left Thornfield and met those other people. Then I hit a reading slump and got bored with it. I am slogging through Huckleberry Finn now. I got bored with it when he met up with Jim and the feuding families made it interesting again but that was short lived and now I am bored again. I am determined to finish it though.

I normally give up on a book after a few failed tries but depending on the book I push through. Like 1984, it was so boring and hard to get through but I still enjoyed the story overall. It is the scariest book I have ever read.

Paul wrote: "I am not a huge fan of the classics, but can recommend John Steinbeck as one author"

Thanks for the recommendation. I do have a couple of his books on my TBR list

Stick with Jane through that bit. It's worth it in the end.

I have finished Alice in Wonderland. It wasn't as good as I expected.
My review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Now I am reading both Huck Finn and Neverending Story.
Huckleberry Finn still isn't capturing my interest but I will not give up.

Yes, I loved Alice when I was a young girl but as an adult I really didn't like it that much. It has iconic/memorable scenes but I didn't find it charming or magical enough. And you're right about Alice being petulant!

Finished my review

If you can add the title rather than the cover, it makes it easy for people reading it on the app