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We will have to! It's always nice to have someone who is reading or has read the book to talk it over with.
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Nothing is long after you get through Les Miserables, haha. I saw that on your list. Once you finish it, everything looks that much shorter, haha. I started Ulysses once and gave up because I have a hard time getting through stream of consciousness narratives. I will let you know when I start if you haven't started first and maybe we'll manage to get through it.
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I must admit, Middlemarch was long considering it was 880 pages. I remember Les Mis being really interesting to read, until he got to the rambling, tangent parts. I don't really remember it feeling particularly long for that reason...
I read the Odyssey years ago, but I think I was a little too young to appreciate it and I don't remember much of it. I want to read it again now that I'm a bit older and stand a better chance of understanding it.
I've never really been bothered by the length of a book. If it's over 750 pages I'll normally keep a second book on hand that I can read, too. The story, aside from the tangents, in Les Miserables does seem pretty short. I can understand why. I might ramble, too, if I were writing a book while in exile. He certainly had a good deal of free time on his hands to write that book with, haha.
I've never really been bothered by the length of a book. If it's over 750 pages I'll normally keep a second book on hand that I can read, too. The story, aside from the tangents, in Les Miserables does seem pretty short. I can understand why. I might ramble, too, if I were writing a book while in exile. He certainly had a good deal of free time on his hands to write that book with, haha.
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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote--Finished 23 NovemberThe Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy-- Finished 19 NovemberThe Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Complete short stories by Oscar Wilde
Complete poetry by Oscar Wilde
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda
Ulysses by James Joyce
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
The Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Purgatorio by Dante Aligheri
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Oasis by Mary McCarthy
The American by Henry James
Hopefully I have time for more than that between classes and exploring the rest of Europe in 2014, but many of these have been staring at me from their shelf for the longest time.