Classics you know you should have read but probably haven't
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- 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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- amanda4242: Read it and loathed it.sturlington: Important book but kind of a slog.ManWithAnAgenda : Read, enjoyed.MyFathersDragon: It was one of the classics to choose from to read in a high school class. I read lots of the choices, so I had options to choose from when it was time to write a book report.
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av H. G. Wells
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Tillagt 2012-02-19, 01:15 PM
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- 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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av Bram Stoker
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Tillagt 2012-02-19, 01:07 PM
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- electrice : read in 2014JalenV: 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.
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Tillagt 2012-01-09, 10:14 AM
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- Förklaringar
- sturlington : I don't really like his style.Aprill: It's on my tbr shelf.ahef1963: Read via audiobook. Terriby confusing. Can't say I liked it.
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- 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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- Förklaringar
- 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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- amanda4242: Devoured this in one sitting.JalenV: I think I read it after I saw the movie at a local science fiction collection. I felt sorry for his wife and the poor man killed at Dresden.Aprill: I would read this one again.ahef1963: Read in university. Loved it.ManWithAnAgenda : Read.
