Miss.terri’s Comments (group member since Jul 27, 2011)

Miss.terri’s comments from the Classics for Beginners group.

Sorry, just saw the book I nominated was read in 2016.

I nominate Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

Sir Walter Scott


Rob Roy
Read 2017
Liked it.

Daniel Defoe


Robinson Crusoe
Read 2017
Liked it

William Shakespeare


The Poetry:

1598 The Sonnets
Read 2016
Liked it.

A sonnet is a 14-line poem that rhymes in a particular pattern.

1592-1593 Venus and Adonis
Read 2016
Liked it.

1594 The Rape Of Lucretia
Read 2016
Liked it.

1609 A Lover's Complaint
Read 2016
Liked it.

1612 A Funeral Elegy for Master William Peter
Read 2016
Liked it.

Leo Tolstov


1869 War and Peace
Read 2014
Liked it.

1878 Anna Karenina
Read 2010
Liked it.

Edgar Rice Burroughs


1912 Tarzan of the Apes
Read 2014
Liked it.

1913 The Return of Tarzan
Read 2014
Liked it.

1914 The Beasts of Tarzan
Read 2014
Liked it.

1914 The Son Of Tarzan
Read 2014
Liked it.

Arthur Conan Doyle


The Hound of the Baskervilles
Read 2014
Liked it

Edgar Wallace


1932 King Kong
Read 2014
Liked it.

Cybiltaylor wrote: "*was (not wasn't)"

Yes, I am still glad I read it. I just did not enjoy all of it. I was interested in the Inter-monologue.

It was interesting with the inner dialogue in the way that story was told. However there was a lot of vulgarity that bordered on the pornagraphic for my taste.

James Joyce


1922 Ulysses
Read 2013
Less than one star
I would not recommend this book to anyone.

Aldous Huxley


1932 Brave New World
Read 2013
Liked it

We have a used book store here and I limit my trips there because I never leave with out an arm load!

Author Unknown


2750-2500 BCE Epic of Gilgamesh
Read April 2013
Liked it.

Charles Dickens
1812-1870

1843 A Christmas Carol
Read April 2013
I loved it.

John Bunyan


1678 The Pilgrim’s Progress
Read January 2013
Liked it.

Reginald Rose


Twelve Angry Men
January 2013
Great Read

Homer


800 B.C.E. The Iliad
Read January 2013
Liked it

800 B.C.E. The Oddessy
Read January 2013
Really Liked it

Emily Bronte


1847 Wuthering Heights
Read July 2012
Loved it.


In 1848, while at her brother’s funeral, Emily caught a cold and died in December of the same year. She was the fourth daughter and fifth child. Two other sisters, Charlotte and Anne were also published novel writers.