Pre-Blog classic Classics – Part 3
My plan (such as it is) is to read 6 Classics this year. I’ve reviewed one so far with another in my review pile. I’ve got a third coming up in an ‘insert in read pile when appropriate pile’, so I just need to ‘find’ three more – which won’t present ANY problems as I have LOTS to choose from. I’m thinking at some point maybe I could read 10 Classics in a row. It’d be ‘fun’ figuring out what and in what order to keep things fresh and interesting.... [muses]. Anyway, way back in the mists of tome (pre-Blog) I was also trying to read more Classics. As the months/years went by I got better and picking them (I like to think!), so here’s the final pre-Blog Classics list.
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain
The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
Flatland by Edwin A Abbott
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Farwell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
A Story of Days to Come by H G Wells
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiel Hammett
The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes
The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley
Land Under England by Joseph O’Neill
Run Silent, Run Deep by Edward L Beach
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? By Agatha Christie
The High Window by Raymond Chandler
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
That’s not a bad list, if I say so myself. Obviously, there’s still HUGE gaps in my Classics reading but I’m looking at that. It’ll be interesting to see exactly where we end up. Onwards!
5 comments:
I have read the two Christie novels, Around the World in 80 Days and The Catcher in the Rye, but none of the others on your list. There are some big gaps in my classics reading too!
I have two fairly chunky stacks of unread Classics but there are SO many! Even just reading all of Charles Dickens would take a while never mind Classics from other countries too! I can really see why some people ONLY read Classics - but I could never do that. FAR too much else catches my interest.
I started Slaughterhouse Five late last year, but then got busy with sci if reading for the book club and never got back to it. Everyone in the book club had already read it, so I was on my own. I just finished the last sci if read for this month and forgot S5 was sitting in my stack. Maybe I’ll get back to it this summer. I’ve just become distracted by another book, _The Alice Network_ by Kate Quinn partially based on real events in WWII, I think. Good so far!
I've heard lots of good things about 'Alice Network'. It's on my "interest" list which is VERY, VERY long!
I love classics but only have read a couple, well, four of them: The Catcher in the Rye, Murder on the Orient Express, All Quiet on the Westrn Front and 100 Years of Solitude. While I loved the lost ones, I didn't care for the first.
You might want to join The Classics Club
Enjoy all of them.
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