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Originally Posted by CRussel
@Catlady: I can honestly say I have less than zero interest in reading ANY of the Russians. I was totally put off them at a young age, and haven't felt any desire to ever return. I haven't read W&P, but I have read the other two in my youth. And don't care to repeat the experience.
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That is exactly why I want to read them--I too was put off by them in high school. Plus I still feel guilty about reading only the Cliff Notes for
Anna Karenina.
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That particular Dickens isn't high on my list, but there are a couple that would be interesting to me. A Tale of Two Cities and especially Nicholas Nickleby. The latter because I have an Audible version of it read by the inimitable Kobna Holdbrook-Smith and would love an excuse to read it. Of course, it's stupendously long, so would likely overwhelm my audio reading for at least a couple of months, but I'm game if we ever get around to considering it as a group read.
(Nickleby would actually lend itself quite well to a group read, given that the Audible version is divided up into 19 roughly two hour segments, lending it to a "serial read" of a segment or two a month. )
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Yes to
Nicholas Nickleby. I reread
A Tale of Two Cities a couple of years back when I went on a little Dickens binge, so wouldn't want to read it again.