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Wow! What a list!! I've read a few of them.
Martha wrote: "Wow! What a list!! I've read a few of them."It is a long list. Lol. I have read some of them, but I wanted a good list to go by and this is working out good. :D Thank you! :D
Nicolle wrote: "Woah!"^_^ Fun times. :D
When you say This list may take me a while,I think you mean a long long while!
Nicolle wrote: "When you say This list may take me a while,I think you mean a long long while!"
Nah, just a year, or two or three? Hehe
I love your list! I'd be extremely happy if I read that many classics by the end of my lifetime.
Wow, this list may take me a while just to read it.Love the list though. Lots of action adventure from the old days, along with some good melodrama and a healthy dose of Shakespeare.
Thank you :D I really wanted to have an eclectic list. :D I think I succeeded.
I definitely think you succeeded. :)
I have to finally get through the unabridged Les Miserable before I can think of starting a classics to be read list. I have a few on my Kindle waiting.
I borrowed the book Les Miserable from a friend. I don't know if it is the unabridged book though. O_o? Oh well, I will read it anyway. :D
The author goes off on many tangents which the abridged version omits, I believe.
Les Mis that I borrowed was abridged. Ended up buying the unabridged version, and I finished and loved it. I am still reading these classics, but havent updated here yet. :)
The unabridged version has entire chapters that don't add anything to the story, but are interesting tangents if you like history I guess. I haven't read the abridged version, but I'm sure you could get all you need from it without all the author's side notes.
Have updated my list. :p
Oh I like the setup of this list, may steal the idea. How did you get the different font?
I had written the list up using WordPad then cut and pasted the list and then I used the < pre > html tags. :D This tag always changes the font to the new one. :D
Have updated some of the read list. :)
Have finished Black Beauty again. It was a re-read from my childhood. I loved it then and it seemed even better this time. This time I listened to it on audio book and could see the book in my mind even better than ever.
Have listened to Macbeth on audio book. :) It was very good as it had sound effects and different narrators. Was a fun "read". :)
Have read The Tell-Tale Heart and Rip Van Winkle. Really enjoyed both short stories although they were as different from each other as they could be. I plan to next read The Gold Bug
I was recently interested in reading Rip an Winkle again, it was prominently referenced in How to Read Literature Like a Professor, it's given me a few new ideas on what to read!
Modern Classics I want to read. Hopefully, if anyone can recommend them, I can get some more modern classics to list here.01. J.R.R. Tolkien
-- The Hobbit
-- The Fellowship of the Ring
-- The Two Towers
-- The Return of the King
02. C.S. Lewis
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-- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
-- Prince Caspian
-- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
-- The Horse and His Boy
-- The Silver Chair
-- The Last Battle
03. Alice Walker
-- The Color Purple
-- Meridian
04. Toni Morrison
-- Beloved
-- Jazz
-- Paradise
-- The Bluest Eye
-- Song of Solomon
-- Sula
-- Home
-- Tar Baby
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