Classics you know you should have read but probably haven't

Randall.Parr: I would really like to read this book. Okay. thanks.

Arrashid7: I read btw. high school and college. Got me hooked on more Russian lit.

aulsmith : Read enough to know I don't want to finish

ManWithAnAgenda : Read, enjoyed.

aulsmith : I see no need to read.

ahef1963: Highly enjoyable.

ManWithAnAgenda : Read, enjoyed.

aulsmith : Got halfway through hell and gave up.

sturlington : Read Inferno in college. Not sure of the point of reading the rest.

Arrashid7: I plan to read it this summer.

ManWithAnAgenda : Read, loved.

MyFathersDragon: I didn’t finish. I read some in Italian, but I am not very good with Italian. I read more in English translation, but I wanted to go back to the Italian, and never finished.

JalenV: I listened to an audio copy from my local library. I was amazed by how much punishment poor Oliver's body takes near the end and he managed to survive. Nice kid -- interesting, considering his upbringing.

ahef1963: Too depressing for my liking.

Arrashid7: I read in high school. A great book! A tip ~ don't ever watch movies first!

MyFathersDragon: I was bored in 6th grade and read anything I could get my hands on. I liked Dickens, so I read a lot of his stories.

electrice : read in 2013, excellent

: Stream of consciousness writing is a gimmick, a way of vomiting out words that sometime sound interesting but are hollow of meaning and intent.

nlgeorge : needs editing

Arrashid7: Retrying this modern classic this summer.

aulsmith : Started and decided not to finish

Aprill: I'm partway through. Hope to finish it some day.

ahef1963: Loved it.

MyFathersDragon: I read some in 6th grade, but I didn’t finish because it wasn’t very interesting to me.

aulsmith : Just can't read Woolf.

Arrashid7: She's an awesome writer. I'm reading her this summer.

ManWithAnAgenda : Read, enjoyed.

MyFathersDragon: When I was an adult, I read part of it. Then we packed and moved books. I didn’t continue reading it later, because I had fantasy books in series I was reading become available that I started reading instead.

aulsmith : Skipping. Too much blubber.

rainpebble : puts my brain in a muddle no matter how many attempts I make to read it.

amanda4242: I read it and discovered that I could quite happily have gone through life without having read it.

sturlington : Read in college.

JalenV: Read twice for different classes (one definitely in college), chose it the second time because I remembered enough from dfiscussing it the first time I figured it would help the second. (Still wonder if that preacher who appeared early in the book gave the same sermon every Sunday.)

sturlington : Never finished it. :-(

MyFathersDragon: I read Dumas in 7th grade and was excited by the adventures, so read more of his. And reread them years later.

gilroy : Read it

jain: Read it in high school but need to reread as an adult.

JalenV: Another Dickens novel I listened to after checking it out from the library. I go to bed listening to books and it's an easy way to get through classics.

MyFathersDragon: I read lots of Dickens in 6th grade because I liked them.

aulsmith : I tried 5 times and finally gave up.

MyFathersDragon: I thought I should read it because it is a classic.

amanda4242: Read it in college. Long, but a breeze to get through.

sturlington : Read in college

electrice : read in college

MyFathersDragon: I’ve loved this since grade school.

sturlington : Read in college

electrice : read in college

MyFathersDragon: I loved this since I was in grade school.

aulsmith : Got through Carthage and gave up in disgust.

sturlington : Read in college.

aekd: Unlikely to read, but who knows?

MyFathersDragon: Mythology - I always read that. Then we read it in a 12th grade class, too.

sturlington : Read in high school; play

ManWithAnAgenda : Read.

electrice : read in junior high school

aulsmith : I read as much as I'm going to

ahef1963: Read in grad school. Took some doing, but got through it.

Aprill: I'd like to read at least one book by Salman Rushdie.

ahef1963: It's supposed to be terrific, but I thought it was a bit of a slog.

tiddleyboom: I know the whole plot and resolution of Jane Eyre; I've just never read the book.

JalenV: I have read this book so many times since I was a school girl. However, it wasn't until PBS first aired "I, Claudius" that I understood that "West Indies Messalina" insult.

Aprill: Enjoyed it.

ahef1963: A favourite.

ManWithAnAgenda : Read.

jain: Read it in high school but need to reread as an adult.

amanda4242: Loved it.

gilroy : Faulkner is a dated writer. He was fine when he was first published, but unless you're a literary scholar, not worth the struggle.

aulsmith : Read As I Lay Dying and will never touch Faulkner again.

sturlington : Read it in college. Check off my one Faulkner.

sturlington : Read at least partly.

JalenV: I have this one. The only thing I remember from it is the Archbishop's garden.

ahef1963 : I really tried. Twice. Found it boring and have given up.

sturlington : Saw the movie.

aulsmith : I don't like Morrison and see no reason to read anymore.

aekd: no interest

sturlington : No more Hardy!

ManWithAnAgenda : Read. Loved.

aulsmith : This is the one Lawrence I read, and I agree with sturlington.

sturlington : You really only need to read one Lawrence, I think. I read Lady Chatterley's Lover and had no interest in reading more.

ahef1963: I really loved this book. It captured England so well.

aulsmith : Life is to short to bother with this one.

ManWithAnAgenda : Read. Honestly, if you have to read the 18th century....this is a good one.

gilroy : Read it. Hated it. Let the dang thing die.

aulsmith : I see no reason for anyone to feel obligated to read this book

amanda4242: Read it, but not in a rush to read it again.

sturlington : Could not finish.

Simone2 : Loved it

tiddleyboom : Still can't read Hemingway.

auntSteelbreaker : Read it but I wouldn't recommend it.

aulsmith : See no reason to read.

ManWithAnAgenda : Read. Loved.

amanda4242: Loved it.

auntSteelbreaker : Read it, even though it was boring.

ahef1963: Loved it.

ManWithAnAgenda : Read, enjoyed.

MyFathersDragon: I read it because it was available.

sturlington : Probably read in school. No interest.

aekd: no interest

aulsmith : I got a good way through this, but it bogged down.

aulsmith : Tried and gave up.

sturlington : Read partly in school.

aekd: no interest

aulsmith: I've read a lot of this, but I mean to sit down and read it all the way through someday.

sturlington : Read at least in part in high school

JalenV: Had a summer job once where, after I wrote my weekly report, there was nothing to do. I decided that would be improve my mind day and read then. It did give me a glimpse of how cultures differ when a well-born youth pretending to be a kitchen boy didn't hold it against a well-born young lady for the way she mistreated him when she didn't know who he was.

aekd: no interest

amanda4242: A slow starter and can drag a bit in places, but a great read.

MyFathersDragon: I read this as an adult because it was a classic. I read some excerpts in high school.

jain: Read it in high school but need to reread as an adult.

ahef1963 : Have tried to read it several times but was too bored.

ManWithAnAgenda : Read.

JalenV: Can't recall if I listened to a library copy or read my sister's copy. It was certainly bleak. Avoid lawsuits!

ManWithAnAgenda : Read.

MyFathersDragon: I was reading lots of Dickens back then.

jain: Need to read the uncensored version.

amanda4242: Brilliant book.

Aprill: I found it difficult and not to my taste. Didn't finish.

ManWithAnAgenda : Read.

amanda4242: Liked it.

auntSteelbreaker : I think Austen is boring.

JalenV: Don't love it as much as Pride and Prejudice, but I've read it a few times.

ahef1963: I love Austen. This may be my favourite of her works.

ManWithAnAgenda : Read.

Aprill: Read it.

ahef1963: Loved it.

ManWithAnAgenda : Read.

jain : Read ~1/4 of it, and that was annoying and repetitious enough. Can't imagine slogging through the whole thing.

aulsmith : Life's too short to waste it reading Pamela.

ManWithAnAgenda : Read.

aulsmith : Tried and gave up.

JalenV: I loved the 1960 movie with Rod Taylor when I was a kid so of course I read the book.

ahef1963: So far the only book by Wells that I've liked.

ManWithAnAgenda : Read.

MyFathersDragon: I discovered Jules Verne and H. G. Wells in 4th or 5th grade and read all of the ones I found in the public library.

aulsmith : The first page was so boring I never returned.

ahef1963: Read in university. Hated it.

aulsmith : Didn't get past the first chapter.

sturlington : Done with James!

ManWithAnAgenda : Read. A favorite.

sturlington : Never finished it :-(

ManWithAnAgenda : Read. Loved.

electrice : read in 2014

JalenV: I read it because I was a fan of the original "Dark Shadows" soap opera. I've read it twice.

ahef1963: Re-read via audiobook. It drove me crazy.

ManWithAnAgenda : Read, enjoyed.

tiddleyboom : Can't take Hemingway. Just not my thing.

aulsmith: No more Hemingway, ever.

amanda4242: Hated it.

JalenV: Had to read for school decades ago. It did not stay with me.

Aprill: I like Hemingway's books and would like to read this one again.

electrice : read

MyFathersDragon: I was bored and wanted something to read. We had it in the house, so I read it.