Piyangie’s Comments (group member since Feb 03, 2017)

Piyangie’s comments from the Never too Late to Read Classics group.

I finally finished this magnificent work. It's my second time reading and I enjoyed it a lot more this time.

Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf

The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoevsky

1012 pages

Group total: 89,935

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

I finished Part 4, Book 12. With that, Part 4 ends. I've only got the Epilogue to read.

This book deals with the trial. There were two points that really struck me. In a modern criminal investigation, the time of death of the victim is a crucial piece of evidence. Here, I couldn't find a single place where Fyodor's time of death was established. The other was the absence of resorting to fingerprints. As to the former, I don't know whether it was considered as an important piece of evidence at that time in Russia, or in the world for that matter. As to the latter, I found that at the time this novel was written, no such procedure was adopted in the world. I could not help feeling that a lot of miscarriages of justice must have happened and that many innocents may have been convicted as was the case here.

A Chess Story by Stefan Zweig

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka

A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy

The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie

Welcome to the group, Ben!

Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

Checkmate to Murder by E.C.R. Lorac

Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon