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Other Challenges Archive > Sofi's 12+2 classic challenge (the MUSTS that I haven't read yet)

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message 1: by Sofi (last edited Apr 13, 2015 07:45AM) (new)

Dec 31, 2014 02:54PM

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message 2: by April (new)

Dec 31, 2014 03:50PM

Northanger Abbey is very funny. I hope you enjoy it. War and Peace has some very slow bits, but overall it's wonderful.

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message 3: by Tytti (new)

Dec 31, 2014 03:54PM

Hah, and I didn't think NA was one bit funny, it was almost a struggle to read for me.

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message 4: by Sofi (new)

Jan 01, 2015 12:34PM

Thanks! I think I will :)

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message 5: by Bob, Short Story Classics (new)

Jan 02, 2015 10:49AM

Mod

Good luck on your list.

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message 6: by Moray (new)

Jan 02, 2015 11:23AM

@Sofi I'm about 100 pages into the Brothers Karamazov, it's Dostoyevsky so that's nowhere near enough to know how I feel about it but I loved the Idiot!

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message 7: by April (new)

Jan 02, 2015 11:25AM

Tytti wrote: "Hah, and I didn't think NA was one bit funny, it was almost a struggle to read for me."

I think it's probably less funny if you're not a native speaker and if you're not English. There are lots of little things that are just funny if you know a bit about the class system and snobbery and how men thought they could impress women in the Regency period.

I didn't think it was terribly funny the first time I read it, but when I read it again twenty years later, I laughed out loud in some places.

Now that I've read some gothic novels, I love it even more.

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message 8: by Tytti (new)

Jan 02, 2015 11:38AM

April wrote: "There are lots of little things that are just funny if you know a bit about the class system and snobbery..."

I did often recognise that this should be funny and sort of understood the background but I just have a different sense of humour. I guess I have a darker one...

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