Classic lit

[Yellow Fang]

I've tried a couple of times to get into this one. Will make another attempt in the summer.

For another French classic, how about Zola. Or, Journey to the End of the Night by Celine.

Celine's writing was in the news last month as a French publisher was intending to republish some of his anti-semitic writing. They hadn't been published for 70 years, but I think the publisher has now decided not to go ahead.

Zola, possibly. I think my father liked him.

 

[Brains]

The Time Travellers Wife

 

[Yellow Fang]

Classic lit update.

Hucklebury Finn by Mark Twain - Amazeballs, really good.
Something by Ayn Rand (for the sake of balance) - The Fountainhead, hmm, wouldn't bother.

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas - Amazeballs
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
French classic #5

The Brothers Karamazov by Ffyodor Dostoevsky - very good.
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev - Alright, not as good as Tolstoy or Dostoevsky, but shorter.
Russian classic #4
Russian classic #5

Ullyses by James Joyce - Worthwhile only if you want to honestly say you read it.

And I still want to read some more British classics

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding - Amazeballs
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins - ok
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - well, hmm
Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy - quite good
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope - quite good, rather political
Waverley by Sir Walter Scott - currently reading

The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell - inside there is a good book trying to get out

 

[Badger_Boom]

I’ve always enjoyed more modern Russian lit. How about:
Master and Margarita - Mikhhail Bulgakov
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Death and The Penguin - Andrey Kurkov

The Kurkov one in particular is highly recommended, as are alll his other novels. They’re very Russian, slightly surreal, but wonderfully written.

 

[AndyRM]

Since this has popped up in my mentions, here is one of my current bookcases:

 

[Profpointy]

This is a Classic:-

View: https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/cka/Principles-Optics-Electromagnetic-Theory-Propagation-Interference-Diffraction/0521642221

I recall you recommending that before. It's on my amazon wish list still