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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only ones from that list I haven’t read are Frankenstein, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and [b]The Brothers Karamazov (this one I started but haven’t finished)[/b]. My favorites from the list are probably War and Peace (seriously outstanding), Middlemarch, Vanity Fair, and Pride and Prejudice. I love 19th century fiction and would say that everything on the list is worth a read (plus some Trollope!).[/quote] I've started and failed to finish this one a couple of times. Have read most of the rest of the list. Vanity Fair is amazing; my mentor in grad school hated it and called it fluff, but I've read it twice. [/quote] I enjoyed Vanity Fair the most out of the 16 that I've read. Were you a woman and your mentor a man? I had to read 3 of them for school. Crime & Punishment for 12th Grade AP English and Heart of Darkness and Middlemarch in college English classes. I can't get into Dickens. I liked Great Expectations the best. My best friend gave me a Dickens collection as a present and that's why I read most of the ones I did. I didn't care for them. But I learned about serialization from them. I had Hard Times in college English and don't remember anything about it except character names. I had to confirm that it wasn't Bleak House. I read Moby Dick during a summer where I was traveling abroad and didn't have the language chops to watch local T.V. I liked it a lot since I had time to be patient with it. I liked Louisa May Alcott's writing but prefer the lesser known Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom pairing to Little Women. Also other books she wrote. My family had a large set of her works. It's been a long time since I read all the Austen, but I believe I liked Emma better than S&S back in the day. Really disliked Middlemarch - terrible slog. Found all of the characters tedious. Felt the same about Wuthering Heights (not on the list) - I had no sympathy for all the wailing and teeth-gnashing of Heathcliff and Cathy. I am most interested in reading War and Peace and Anna Karenina of the ones I haven't tackled.[/quote]
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