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Post by enigma72 on Dec 26, 2022 20:09:23 GMT
25 Best Easy to Read Classics for Beginners 2022 www.julesbuono.com/easy-to-read-classics/I never read Rebecca, but have read the others. This list will get you started if you are intimidated by "Classics" Sorry, catman, no Winnie the pooh |
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 25, 2023 18:45:29 GMT
Have read 15 of the 25 titles although, admittedly, some of them long, long ago.
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Post by Catman on Jan 25, 2023 18:50:01 GMT
Certainly some fine books on that list, but the failure to include Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner is deeply disturbing.
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Post by enigma72 on Jan 25, 2023 19:16:30 GMT
Have read 15 of the 25 titles although, admittedly, some of them long, long ago. I'm glad I'm not the only classic reader😉 |
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jan 25, 2023 21:09:38 GMT
I have been reading classics for over 20 years, but i have only read 12 og the 25 books listed.
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Jan 26, 2023 10:41:02 GMT
I've read these, most of them were assigned reading in Junior High and High School and I enjoyed most of them. Its been so many decades that I've read them - I think I'll reread a few.
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Post by enigma72 on Jan 26, 2023 13:57:57 GMT
I've read these, most of them were assigned reading in Junior High and High School and I enjoyed most of them. Its been so many decades that I've read them - I think I'll reread a few. I'd love to reread them too. That is a good idea |
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jan 26, 2023 15:02:38 GMT
14 just
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Post by enigma72 on Jan 26, 2023 15:07:18 GMT
I think that's a lot. I read them because a teacher thought I needed to broaden my horizons. I was a farm girl. But I don't think most have read them I could be wrong |
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jan 26, 2023 15:08:49 GMT
I think that's a lot. I read them because a teacher thought I needed to broaden my horizons. I was a farm girl. But I don't think most have read them I could be wrong Yes, quite a few of them were set texts at my school. |
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Post by Selgovae on Jan 27, 2023 17:59:37 GMT
12 for me, several of them at school. The most recent one I read was the Christie, which I didn't enjoy at all. I did read a few more of her books two summers ago, and enjoyed the Marple and Poirot ones somewhat.
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Post by soggy on Jan 30, 2023 20:54:11 GMT
I've read several of the books on this list and only two of them for classes (I swear my teachers had a vendetta against classic lit and refused to teach them). I enjoy classics, but I pretty much had to just throw myself into them, give up on a few, find others that I liked and overall just had to find my own way through them. I love that list like this exists though!
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Post by Catman on Jan 30, 2023 21:34:21 GMT
Come to think of it, the public radio station where Catman lives used to have a half-hour segment where the host read from a wide range of books including the classics. Catman got to hear Wuthering Heights and Bleak House (among others). Not on the list but still classics.
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Post by novastar6 on Feb 4, 2023 20:03:37 GMT
I read Rebecca last year, I found a large print 2 volume edition of it at the thrift shop. It wasn't a quick or easy read for me but having big font made it easier than it would've been.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Feb 16, 2023 1:55:03 GMT
25 Best Easy to Read Classics for Beginners 2022 www.julesbuono.com/easy-to-read-classics/I never read Rebecca, but have read the others. This list will get you started if you are intimidated by "Classics" Sorry, catman, no Winnie the pooh Yes! |
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Post by OldSamVimes on Feb 23, 2023 20:49:50 GMT
Since Covid I've been burning through some classics:
War and Peace and Anna Karenina by Tolstoy.
Hard Times, Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, Bleak House and A Christmas Carol by Dickens.
Middlemarch by George Eliot.
Crime and Punishment, Demons, Notes from the Underground, The Gambler, The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot by Dostoyevsky.
Cancer Ward and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn.
Old Man and the Sea by Hemmingway.
'The Brothers Karamazov' is particularly fantastic.
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Post by OldSamVimes on Feb 23, 2023 20:52:16 GMT
Come to think of it, the public radio station where Catman lives used to have a half-hour segment where the host read from a wide range of books including the classics. Catman got to hear Wuthering Heights and Bleak House (among others). Not on the list but still classics. Bleak House is really good. It's not as bleak as the title may suggest. |
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Post by enigma72 on Feb 23, 2023 21:45:54 GMT
Since Covid I've been burning through some classics: War and Peace and Anna Karenina by Tolstoy. Hard Times, Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, Bleak House and A Christmas Carol by Dickens. Middlemarch by George Eliot. Crime and Punishment, Demons, Notes from the Underground, The Gambler, The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot by Dostoyevsky. Cancer Ward and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn. Old Man and the Sea by Hemmingway. 'The Brothers Karamazov' is particularly fantastic. That's a great list!! I didnt read 😳 That would have been better for me |
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