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Welcome to the Classics Salon
We’re kicking off a new reading venture and hope people will drop in. The concept is simply that of reading with friends.
The Classics Salon will be a low pressure, unstructured, no rules reading group devoted to the classics, defined for Salon purposes as public domain everywhere. There will be a new selection each quarter. People can participate as they will, although it’s hoped that enough will show up for a lively discussion. And I think that’s it. ![]() To start things off, the following three novels have been proposed:
I’ll note that the first two titles have been suggested in earlier threads as of potential interest and the third could be something of a palate cleanser if the others seem a little daunting. ![]() Do people have suggestions for order? We’re looking at a start day of May 15 for both reading and discussion. This list would carry us through the year. |
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Congrats on starting this new venture! I hope it’s a success. The titles look terrific.
The only thing I would suggest for order might be to have Don Quixote go second or third. This is for a purely selfish reason; it’s the one I’ve already read and for me it might be nice to have the first one in the order be something I haven’t. But I don’t have a strong feeling either way so if others prefer the Cervantes first then that’s fine for me too. ETA- And I like the snazzy new classics icon. Last edited by sun surfer; 04-20-2021 at 12:05 PM. |
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As for order? whichever of the three is shortest would be my preferred starting point. |
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The classics I would most like to be prodded to read include these:
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Isn't "War and Peace" the poster child for chonky doorstops?
Like, I read an abridged version that was like 1500 pages years ago. EDIT: I'm seeing ~587k words for War and Peace. By comparison the Harry Potter books are a bit under 1.1 million words combined. The entire Lord of the Rings series including The Hobbit is ~565k words. Last edited by binaryhermit; 04-20-2021 at 01:17 PM. |
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One could, indeed. But personally, I prefer to simply avoid discussions that might have spoilers for those few books where I care. Mostly I'm not particularly spoiler sensitive.
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@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.
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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I agree that War & Peace is way too large.
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In order to launch the reading, and not get initially bogged down in the nomination/selection process, the 3 titles in the first post were proposed as the candidates to kick off the 2021 reading process. They are quite different in style and subject matter.
As we read, we can generate a list of titles to add later on. As issybird noted, we'd like to keep the pre-set rules/procedures at a minimum and focus on the reading experience, and sharing your thoughts, opinions, etc. with other readers. Discussing while reading may well pose challenges, but we will learn and adapt as the reading begins. Where would you like to begin? |
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Pick one. Preferably not DQ, for the simple reason of length and the time between now and May 15th. But I'm fine with any of the three.
ETA: Daniel Deronda has a "free" Audible version read by the incomparable Nadia May (aka Donada Peters, aka Wanda McCaddon). So, of the three, that gets my nod. ![]() Last edited by CRussel; 04-20-2021 at 03:35 PM. |
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What's the rush? Let's nominate and vote. If we don't want to get bogged down, then go with the old rule: three nominations per member, first ten books with 3 nominations (or one week) move on to the poll, then read, then discuss.
FWIW, the first post was the first time I'd seen those three books "nominated". And as far as classics, wouldn't Middlemarch be more appropriate than Daniel Deronda? |
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Ultimately, it’s a case of so many books, so little time. We can’t read everything, more’s the pity. Can we hold some thoughts? If things go swimmingly, we could well want another selection this year. Does anyone have a serious objection to one of the proposed titles? Given the input so far, I’d propose for a schedule: May 15: Daniel Deronda Aug 15: East Lynne Nov 15: Don Quixote This breaks up the two serious works with the lighter selection and postpones Don Quixote until the end, when a substitution could be made if it were thought it wouldn’t work out. |
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