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Jan 2017
10:55am, 9 Jan 2017
14,513 posts
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LindsD
Me neither. Or Austen. I keep meaning to....
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Jan 2017
11:04am, 9 Jan 2017
26,982 posts
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Night-owl
And me
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Jan 2017
11:25am, 9 Jan 2017
12,681 posts
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mulbs
:-o!!!
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Jan 2017
11:32am, 9 Jan 2017
89,006 posts
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GregP
I read The Eyre Affair and didn't 'get' it. At that point I was going to stop all 'modern' reading and read (at least) Jane Eyre, with the intention to go on and read Dickens, Austen, etc, etc.
That was about 2009 I think ~blush emoticon~
That said, Sue devoted almost all of 2016 to reading The Forsyte Saga in its entirety. Her verdict was that she'd rather not have bothered.
I tried reading The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling a few years back and was bored senseless.
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Jan 2017
11:33am, 9 Jan 2017
19,844 posts
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Diogenes
Thoughts on nod so far: I like it, the only concern is that the author's love of language and wordplay is a little overdone and might get in the way of the story. Lots of good ideas, though. Slightly shocked to read the short essay at the end.
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Jan 2017
12:21pm, 9 Jan 2017
1,779 posts
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DazTheSlug
just to put you all to shame 
over the last 2 years I have read my first ever books by authors including: Jane Austen, George Eliot, Kafka, Conrad, Tolstoy, Henry James, Dickens, Evelyn Waugh, Dostoevsky, Camus, Charlotte Bronte, Nancy Mitford, Hesse, Mann, Forster, Twain, D.H.Lawrence, Huxley, Steinbeck, Wodehouse, Orwell
this year I have lined up: Emily Bronte, Woolf, Dumas, Hardy, Kipling, Maugham, Hemingway, Agatha Christie, Zola, Mailer, Thackeray, Faulkner, R.L.Stevenson, Flaubert, Du Maurier, Balzac
some turkeys, mostly pretty good, some superb
never enjoyed my reading so much :-D
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Jan 2017
12:42pm, 9 Jan 2017
3,883 posts
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The Scribbler
[spoiler alert] There's a good bit of Dickens and Austen in my MOTM interview, but I think Daz outdoes me on reading the classics.
Dickens can be tricky as most people know the most popular stories from adaptations. I was lucky in that I picked him up before I found the adaptations. And he's lasted because I swear I find something new in his novels every time I read them. He does go on a bit sometimes though!
Grep, I have an unvoiced idea of doing a mass Bronte read this year into next, and paying a visit to Haworth again.
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Jan 2017
12:46pm, 9 Jan 2017
89,008 posts
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GregP
Crikey. I went to Howarth, I'm guessing, in 1982. Haven't been since.
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Jan 2017
12:52pm, 9 Jan 2017
3,884 posts
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The Scribbler
I went when I was at Uni in Leeds - so between 1990-93, and haven't been since. Watched the BBC drama over Christmas and it brought back lots of memories.
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Jan 2017
1:24pm, 9 Jan 2017
89,009 posts
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GregP
I was at uni at the time too - down in Kent, but I had a friend from Pudsey...
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