Classics you know you should have read but probably haven't
- Descripción
- I know I feel guilt at the number of works I feel I ought to have read, but haven't quite managed to get round to yet... Well, let's try to prioritise!
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por Dante Alighieri
21,725 miembros
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4.1
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Añadido 2012-01-09, 06:40 PM
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- Explicaciones
- 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.
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por Homer
52,993 miembros
473 reseñas
4
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Puntuacion 175.36
Añadido 2012-01-26, 05:23 PM
- 77 Members
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- Explicaciones
- amanda4242: Read it in college. Long, but a breeze to get through.sturlington : Read in collegeelectrice : read in collegeMyFathersDragon: I’ve loved this since grade school.
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por Homer
39,898 miembros
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4
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Añadido 2012-01-09, 10:11 AM
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- Explicaciones
- sturlington : Read in collegeelectrice : read in collegeMyFathersDragon: I loved this since I was in grade school.
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por H. G. Wells
10,903 miembros
253 reseñas
½ 3.5
Ranking Global 24
Puntuacion 144.45
Añadido 2012-02-19, 01:15 PM
- 68 Members
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- Explicaciones
- JalenV: I read quite a bit of H. G. Wells during the 1970s. I'm pretty sure I read this one.ManWithAnAgenda : Read, enjoyed.MyFathersDragon: I would have been about 13. I don’t remember finishing it, so either we went on vacation or I didn’t like it. At that age, I almost always finished books.
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por Virgil
22,878 miembros
198 reseñas
3.9
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Añadido 2012-01-09, 09:59 AM
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- Explicaciones
- 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.
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4
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Añadido 2012-01-12, 11:21 AM
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- Explicaciones
- 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.
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por George Eliot
17,697 miembros
330 reseñas
4.2
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Añadido 2012-05-16, 09:39 AM
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- Explicaciones
- sturlington : Never finished it :-(ManWithAnAgenda : Read. Loved.
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por Thomas Malory
7,090 miembros
52 reseñas
3.9
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Puntuacion 78.82
Añadido 2012-01-12, 11:20 AM
- 43 Members
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- Explicaciones
- 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 schoolJalenV: 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
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por Henry Fielding
8,112 miembros
96 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 65
Puntuacion 76.83
Añadido 2012-01-09, 10:16 AM
- 45 Members
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- Explicaciones
- 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.
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por Wilkie Collins
10,812 miembros
251 reseñas
4
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Puntuacion 79.66
Añadido 2012-08-04, 11:37 AM
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- Explicaciones
- sturlington : Tried to read--couldn't get into it.JalenV: I believe I read a Classics Illustrated version first. I don't like it as much as The Woman in White, but I liked it.ManWithAnAgenda : Read.
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por Ovid
13,175 miembros
102 reseñas
4.1
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Puntuacion 75.31
Añadido 2012-01-12, 11:03 AM
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- Explicaciones
- sturlington : Probably read in school. No interest.aekd: no interest
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por H. G. Wells
17,661 miembros
338 reseñas
½ 3.7
Ranking Global 38
Puntuacion 112.48
Añadido 2012-02-19, 01:12 PM
- 64 Members
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- Explicaciones
- 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.
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por Herodotus
10,069 miembros
85 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 58
Puntuacion 86.02
Añadido 2012-05-16, 09:42 AM
- 47 Members
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- Explicaciones
- aekd: Who am I kidding? I won't read this.
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por Mikhail Bulgakov
20,416 miembros
465 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 60
Puntuacion 81.72
Añadido 2012-01-09, 10:18 AM
- 47 Members
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- Explicaciones
- aulsmith : See no reason to read.ManWithAnAgenda : Read. Loved.
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por Elie Wiesel
27,535 miembros
571 reseñas
½ 4.3
Ranking Global 42
Puntuacion 106.69
Añadido 2012-01-27, 06:10 AM
- 52 Members
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- Explicaciones
- tiddleyboom : Read in High School...still haunts me after all these years.amanda4242: Read it in high school but should read it again.ManWithAnAgenda : Read.
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por Thomas Mann
5,669 miembros
108 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 73
Puntuacion 67.18
Añadido 2012-01-09, 10:10 AM
- 38 Members
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17
4,479 miembros
69 reseñas
4.1
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Puntuacion 62.25
Añadido 2012-01-09, 10:11 AM
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por Snorri Sturluson
3,165 miembros
25 reseñas
4
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Puntuacion 28.93
Añadido 2012-01-12, 11:23 AM
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por Shikibu Murasaki
5,496 miembros
53 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 95
Puntuacion 55
Añadido 2012-01-09, 10:08 AM
- 33 Members
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por Wu Cheng'en
582 miembros
7 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 106
Puntuacion 42.66
Añadido 2012-01-12, 11:17 AM
- 25 Members
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