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Dec 2014
3:45pm, 22 Dec 2014
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Columba
OMG!
Don't say I didn't warn you; it's going to be a nineteenth century novel.
Maybe George Eliot; I haven't read much George Eliot.
(Just be thankful I'm not considering Henry James).
Off to consult the bookshelf. Back soon.
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Dec 2014
3:54pm, 22 Dec 2014
15,483 posts
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fetcheveryone
Oooh!
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Dec 2014
3:57pm, 22 Dec 2014
5,164 posts
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Autumnleaves
I love George Elliot - but some might take more than a month to get through!!
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Dec 2014
4:05pm, 22 Dec 2014
18,508 posts
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Night-owl
All up for a challenge.
though have one week of all nights when we get shop back right post Christmas after the apocalypse. (that's The SALE in layman terms)
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Dec 2014
4:05pm, 22 Dec 2014
18,509 posts
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Night-owl
So will have to start book soon as
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Dec 2014
4:14pm, 22 Dec 2014
6,360 posts
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Shark the Herald Angel
Are you SURE not Henry James Columba? 
How about 'The Golden Bowl'? I have a nice well read copy. Well read by my mum that is, not me. Portrait of a Lady was about my limit and I needed to see it on the telly first (starring Richard Chamberlain) before grappling with it.
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Dec 2014
4:28pm, 22 Dec 2014
10,255 posts
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Oysterboy
This will certainly be a challenge for me, I don't get on too well with most old stuff unfortunately!
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Dec 2014
6:22pm, 22 Dec 2014
5,694 posts
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Columba
I recently read "What Maisie knew", and that was a struggle, though well worth it. Had to go back and read some sentences 3 times over before I could get the hang of them.
OK, we'll have "The Mill on the Floss" by George Eliot - and yes, I'm afraid it is a long one, 534 pages in my edition. Sorry, OB.
So to counterbalance it, as a bonus book, we'll have "The Mystic Masseur" by V.S Naipaul - his first, I think - which is a slim volume of only 207 pages, and looks to be quite easy to read provided you can get on with the Trinidad dialect in which the characters speak (though not the narrator, except insofar as he's one of the characters. I mean, the book is not written in dialect).
I read the Mill on the Floss many years ago and can't remember anything about it except that it's about a brother and sister growing up. I have read two V.S. Naipauls, but not this one.
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Dec 2014
6:24pm, 22 Dec 2014
5,695 posts
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Columba
Herald Angel, I have never attempted The Golden Bowl. I think I may have read Portrait of a Lady, but can't remember anything about it.
All my Henry James was originally my mother's. Pity your mother and mine didn't meet.
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Dec 2014
6:34pm, 22 Dec 2014
6,361 posts
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Shark the Herald Angel
Lol Columba. My mum was in her 50s before she started on Henry James and boy did she love him. I've inherited all her silvery-grey backed Penguin modern classics. Including the copy of The Bostonians I got half way through with before chucking her way. 'Portrait' is good - and I've read quite a few of the shorter ones including Maisie, Washington Square and the Spoils of Poynton. Plus the Aspern Papers and Turn of the Screw of course, which are 'ahem' easy.
I read Mill on the Floss in my twenties. I can remember quite a bit of it so will say no more. Naipaul's 'A House for Mr Biswas' was another favourite of my mum's. I don't know the one you mention.
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