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Hello AuntiWiddershins. Wodehouse is great, but isn't Public Domain worldwide, so wouldn't be eligible. It looks as if we have suggestions to keep us going for several years already. I don't know the Buchclub, but assume it is within MR?
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Chekhov’s short story The Bet seems especially apropos for readers. ![]() Certainly the salon should include reading recommendations, anything bookish at all. |
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I suggest H. G. Wells.
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I don't know the Buchclub, but assume it is within MR?[/QUOTE]
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=336055 Buchclub is german language book recommendations and reading self-challenge in MR. |
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Let us hope if we read A Journal of the Plague Year that, by whatever year we do, we can compare it to recently passed events rather than current ones! |
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Would Moby Dick be considered a classic? I've started it several times but for some reason or other never finished it.
Crime and Punishment, Don Quixote, Daniel Deronda, most anything by Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities for sure), P.G. Wodehouse, and The Time Machine could get me on board. I've read Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary and disliked both...a lot. Last edited by CharlieBird; 04-26-2021 at 08:09 PM. |
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So, referring back to the first post, we are going to start with Daniel Deronda in mid May, and Don Quixote is slated towards the end of the year. We are going to see how we go with the first three books and if we decide to continue (which I hope we do) we shall be looking at the various suggestions for next year and maybe beyond that, though probably not trying to plan too far ahead. So feel free to join us on 15 May when we start reading Daniel Deronda. |
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If anyone would rather read Daniel Deronda in hardcover, Amazon has a couple in stock starting at $228.79 with free shipping! Not a Prime item, though, and shipping takes 2 to 3 weeks.
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We are spending 2 months per title here, so it could well be years before we get around to that title you are ready to read. I just didn't want anyone to feel constrained by our pace or our selections. |
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Off the cuff, it seems to me that A Tale of Two Cities has had more mentions than any other single title, which has me a little bemused. It’s one, probably the only, Dickens that I’ve read that I’d have no interest in reading again. The whole business is sensational and everyone knows how it ends (the far, far better thing). Overall, an oddity for Dickens. But then, I loved Dickens’ other historical novel Barnaby Rudge and people don’t seem to think much of that one, so clearly my tastes are aberrant.
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It's been a long while, but the main thing that sticks in my memory about A Tale of Two Cities was that it seemed to go on far too long, it's definitely not on my list to re-read. Another that fits that description was Hard Times. I don't think I've read Barnaby Rudge so at least it would be one I'd be interested in reading some time (not just now).
If people were considering some Dickens you could do worse than some of his non-fiction works, that way you might (perhaps) mange to strike on one that less people had already read. I enjoyed American Notes, which given the mixed audience here might generate some interesting conversation, but I also found The Uncommercial Traveller and A Child's History of England to be interesting. |
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I misunderstood that the first three books were declared and not still in the proposal stage.
I started Daniel Deronda last night and will be on board for Don Quixote and anything by Dickens. Ashamed to say I've never read anything by him except A Tale of Two Cities in high school many years ago and why I'd be ready to read it again. |
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