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Sharkie Jan 2017 7:47pm, 9 Jan 2017 10,802 posts	0 Sharkie I'm dib dib dabbing at my iPad while I'm eating my dinner so am probably typing a load of old tosh.
Diogenes Jan 2017 7:53pm, 9 Jan 2017 19,857 posts	0 Diogenes I found Wuthering Heights quite unreadable too, not sure the small typeface helped.
Sharkie Jan 2017 8:06pm, 9 Jan 2017 10,803 posts	0 Sharkie I can't remember a thing about Pickwick Papers bar the names of the characters - and that's mainly because they're in Little Women (most excellent comfort reading!) I do remember it was extremely DULL and not the least bit funny. But than I was 14 and The Catcher inThe Rye was my idea of a classic.
beebop Jan 2017 8:37pm, 9 Jan 2017 862 posts	0 beebop I liked Shirley, but I can't remember it very well - time to re-read, perhaps. I'm only re-reading at the moment, having stalled on The Luminaries (which I think I'll enjoy very much when I wake up a little). Villette, however, I found exceptionally irritating...
LindsD Jan 2017 8:49pm, 9 Jan 2017 14,530 posts	0 LindsD Did someone mention Hardy?
Columba Jan 2017 9:10pm, 9 Jan 2017 12,142 posts	0 Columba I certainly didn't find Pickwick Papers dull. I loved Jingle - he always talks in gasps - and the description of the election (before the days of the secret ballot). And Sam Weller who is perhaps a cockney ancestor of Jeeves.
Sharkie Jan 2017 9:20pm, 9 Jan 2017 10,804 posts	0 Sharkie Perhaps you were older than 14 when you read it Columba! Or an unusual 14 year old. I maintain it was a terrible choice for form 3A in 1966!
Sharkie Jan 2017 9:23pm, 9 Jan 2017 10,805 posts	0 Sharkie Far From the Madding Crowd is one of Raffo's favourite novels (tying - unusally - with Lucky Jim, I believe.) My fave rave Hardy is Jude the Obscure because I like a bit of unremitting gloom.
Bintmcskint Jan 2017 9:30pm, 9 Jan 2017 33,944 posts	0 Bintmcskint I went through a real Hardy love affair. I think Jude is my favourite, too.
Diogenes Jan 2017 9:33pm, 9 Jan 2017 19,859 posts	0 Diogenes And Jude for me! I thought everyone but me hated it.

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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Olga Tokarczuk, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
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I'm Starting To Worry About This Black Box Of Doom (Jason Pargin)
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Mind of Winter (Laura Kasischke)
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Appliance (J O Morgan)
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