1001/1292 Books (Part 4)
Here we are with yet another 20-book excerpt from Hannah’s List of Books to Read BEFORE you Die. As before, these are books I’ve read (so far) from that List. Some are fairly recent reads, like Barbusse and Woolf, whilst others were read by in my teens in the 1970’s - LONG before Blogs were even conceived of. This will be the last of these lists for a while as I have, I think, only 4 left and they're ALL by Jane Austen!! I’ll wait until I have a larger bunch of books to report on and that might take SOME time! [lol] So, here they are:
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A LOT of Classics in this round! I was a HUGE fan of H G Wells in my youth and basically read everything of his I could get my hands on. The same with Conan Doyle and I’ll be revisiting Holmes at some point this year. I *thought* I had all of the Holmes stories but it turned out that I must’ve had some of them from my local library. They’ve since been bought so I can read them at my own pace. MUCH more Dickens to come too! I picked up his complete works a few years ago for a really great knockdown price and have promised myself that I’ll read them all (except for his last unfinished mystery – I mean what’s the point of that, right?) before I die... starting with the shortest ones and getting longer as I go.
7 comments:
I've read waaaaay more of these than in the last round I commented on. Frankenstein is perhaps my fave of these - tied with Dracula of course.
I was quite disappointed with Dracula - being a big vampire fan and all - but I thought Frankenstein was awesome. I think it's very underrated. I need to try out more Shelly @ some point.
I've read quite a lot of these and particularly loved the two Brontë novels and A Tale of Two Cities. I think I've read about half of Dickens' books now - including the unfinished one, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which is actually very enjoyable, but as frustrating as you would expect!
My friend's girlfriend @ Uni studied English Lit and regularly told me that Dickens was very funny. I had trouble believing her. After reading 'Tale of Two Cities' I was both VERY impressed by the quality of the writing and the fact that he is indeed very funny!
Didn't like 'Wuthering' at all but really liked 'Jane Eyre'. 'Drood' I'll give a miss I think [lol] as I just couldn't stand the idea of *never* knowing whodunnit!!
But it's Dracula!
Dracula wasn't a *bad* novel but it was rather slow and I thought the ending very very abrupt and anti-climatic. I liked Mina though...
My review is here: https://cyberkittenspot.blogspot.com/2013/10/just-finished-reading-dracula-by-bram.html
I can understand that, especially because of the build-up.
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