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Now that' I've finished the trilogy of terror: War and Peace, Les Miserables, and The Count of Monte Cristo; the Chinese classics; and others like The Brothers Karamozov and Don Quixote I think I'm over the fear of fat books.

Bernard wrote: "What about the women?"

It says I can't post a link even though there are some links in this thread already but here's one: modernmrsdarcydotcom/must-read-classics-women/


I only have four on this list.

I finished this. Not really sure what to think of it. It's written by an outsider, of course, but I don't believe any of this stuff so everything he says about superstition makes sense.

Lesle wrote: "Book Nerd
Samantha will open up a thread for it soon. Her world is still kind of crazy.

Just wanted to remind everyone it is coming up fast.
It is your November/December read and it is already th..."
Cool, thanks.

Lesle wrote: "The Hobbit by Chuck Dixon

Join in on the Give-A-Way of this Graphic Novel. The read is scheduled for November and December.

Anyone thinking about joining in on this ..."
How do I do that?

This looks interesting. I'll read it sometime soon.

I've read 26 but two of them are doubles. Illiad/Odyssey and Hobbit/LOTR.
The ones that linger the most to me are 1984 and, when I was younger, Lord of the Flies.

shannon wrote: "I was thinking about how John Carter ended up on Mars. Do you think the tesseract idea, in A Wrinkle In Time, came from his mode of travel?"
It might be a minor spoiler for later books: (view spoiler)[His body lays in the cave while he's on mars. When he returns to earth his mars body lays there "dead". (hide spoiler)]

Yeah some of them end kind of abruptly.
Like I said before it seems a little too westernized. In one story they switched back and forth between ogre and oni.

This is a really old book written for a western audience. They have to tell you what a samurai is.

I finished last year. I'll reread At the Mountains of Madness when the second part of the François Baranger illustrated edition comes out.

There are actually eleven books. From what I've heard one wasn't actually written by Burroughs.

The way he gets to Mars is really interesting. (view spoiler)[Basically he has a body on each world and it goes into suspended animation when he's in the other one. (hide spoiler)]
And the green Martians are really cool.

It was a cool but weird book. But I really think I like the movie better on this one.

It was cool that the humble toad was a sacred animal. :)

Most, probably all, of these have been animated.
"How the Old Man Lost HIs Wen" is my favorite. Really cool old animation. I saw an old animation of Momotaro once too but I couldn't find it.


The Tongue Cut Sparrow

The Story of Urashima Taro the Fisher Lad

The Farmer and the Badger

The Story of Princess Hase

The Old Man Who Made Withered Trees Flower

The Quarrel of the Monkey and the Crab

Momotaro

How the Old Man Lost His Wen

I just started it. I'm familiar with some of these stories already.

Yeah, the translation is a huge deal. It depends on my eyes and my contacts day to day. When I have some hours to read undisturbed I sometimes take them out and literally put my nose in a book.

Anyway War and Peace is going well. It's no more challenging than Les Miserables.

Yeah, I'm taking my time. I'm about forty pages in. It's not bad so far. Just wish the print wasn't so small!

I just started War and Peace. Don't know why but this one intimidates me more than the other hefty classics I've read.

Makes sense. My copy has an introduction by Gaiman. Stardust sound pretty cool.