classic books

[medpedspouse]

When DH bought me the Sony last year, I ended up returning it. This year I bought a Kindle 2 and love it. Yes, there is a kindle app for the Iphone but (not that I have tried it) from what I have been told, it is not reading friendly. Unlike the Kindle and reader, you have a backlight which (according to those who have tried it) can make reading for long periods of time uncomfortable.

I'd like to echo "East of Eden".

[fluffhead]

I was a dark brooding adolescent and read lots of dostoevsky and turgenev through my late teens and early twenties. Of course they were all in translation - I'm jealous of anybody who can read Russian.
If you want a really excellent often overlooked 19th century novel, try Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov. It's about the laziest man in the world. Dostoevsky thought Oblomov was a work of genius, but when he met Goncharov while gambling in Germany he was distinctly unimpressed.
Also some of Farley Mowat's lesser known works are great reads.

[Sheherezade]

Thanks for that, Fluff! I'll have to check it out. I haven't read it.

[Vishenka69]

Second Oblomov, definitely a worthy read for anyone interested in Russian Lit. Angie, I so wish you were 10 younger, I would have loved to cross paths with you in Hamilton.

Fluff, I prefer to be entertained while I read and not tortured (which is DH's favorite route). My all time favorites as a result are Chehov and Pushkin.

[diggitydot]

I'm always downloading books to my iPhone. (Love Stanza!) Here's what I currently have:

A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
Dubliners - James Joyce
Emma - Jane Austen
Howard's End - E.M. Forster
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Mother - Maxim Gorky
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
Othello - Shakespeare
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Ten Years Later - Alexandre Dumas
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton

The Antichrist - Nietzsche

The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas
The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Thus Spake Zarathustra - Nietzsche
Twenty Years Later- Alexandre Dumas
Ulysses - James Joyce
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery
War and Peace - Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky


Um, yeah... I probably should have warned you that I'm kind of into Russian lit, too.

fluffhead- If you really want to learn Russian, Rosetta Stone is set up fairly decently. I used it as a refresher after many years of not using my high school or college Russian and picked it back up pretty easily with RS's help. Russian looks more daunting than it actually is.

[GrayMatterWife]

The Catcher in the Rye

[fluffhead]

fluffhead- If you really want to learn Russian, Rosetta Stone is set up fairly decently. I used it as a refresher after many years of not using my high school or college Russian and picked it back up pretty easily with RS's help. Russian looks more daunting than it actually is.

I'll try to remember this when I have some free time
do the laundry....learn Russian....mow the lawn...

[PrincessFiona]

The Catcher in the Rye

One of the best books ever!

Kris

[fluffhead]

re: Catcher in the Rye - have you seen the NYT editorial about how high school kids are getting fed up with Holden Caulfield? Stop whining already and get on with your life...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/we...chuessler.html

I loved Salinger's other works - Franny and Zooey and the other stories about that family.

[Flynn]

re: Catcher in the Rye - have you seen the NYT editorial about how high school kids are getting fed up with Holden Caulfield? Stop whining already and get on with your life...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/we...chuessler.html

I loved Salinger's other works - Franny and Zooey and the other stories about that family.

I JUST read this article and found it interesting as I was a high school English teacher and taught "Catcher."

Thanks for posting that, Fluff.

[MrsC]

I can't believe no-one mentioned "Wuthering Heights".
One of my all time favourites.

[Vishenka69]

I just finished BBC miniseries Wives and Daughters, based on Elizabeth Gaskell's novel. It was very good and I'm thinking of getting that book and may be something else by her. I think you might enjoy it too.

Great Gatsby, To the Lighthouse, and To Kill a Mocking Bird are some of my favorites.