Casual Classics 2009
If all goes well, at the end of 2009 I'll have an English degree. Given this, the number of classics I haven't read (or worse, not managed to finish) is embarrassing. It'll take more than four books to rectify this but you've got to start somewhere, right?
1. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen I'm switching to The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins.
2. ??? I'm considering Middlemarch but seriously doubt I can pull it off.
3. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
4. The Reef by Edith Wharton
There are two motives for reading a book: One, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. Bertrand Russell
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13 comments:
Did you know that a huge number of Jane Austen movies seem to be screening on TV1 at the moment!?
Yes! So many classics! Oliver Twist, Gosford Park, Vanity Fair, Austen, and that historical one about Queen Victoria with Judi Dench... =D
Did you watch Gosford Park? I did! OMG SO confusing! I was sitting watching it with my laptop open on my lap, reading the Wikipedia synopsis at the same time and I STILL didn't get everything!
I suspect the fact that there were so many characters (played by so many really well-known actors!) may have contributed to that!
Ooh the Judi Dench one is on tonight, right? Or is it tomorrow? I might have to watch it, it looks interesting.
Yeah I did. I was confused too! I think I'd seen it before cos parts kept seeming familiar lol.
The Judi Dench one is tomorrow. It does look good! It's weird 'cos a couple of days ago I was asking mum why there were so many movies about Elizabeth I but not so much about Victoria and she was like, 'Isn't there one with Billy Connolly and Judi Dench?'
Nice list! I loved The Picture of Dorian Gray, and I have the Jules Verne on my radar for this year, too.
Good luck with all your goals!
Lezlie
Good! I'm glad it wasn't just me! Heheh!
Yeah bits of it seemed familiar to me too, and I couldn't work out why, until I realised it was because I'd seen them on Youtube, which was what made me want to see the whole thing to begin with!
Christmas/New Year always seems to be good at helping me get through my 50 movies - I'm nearly halfway now! :)
I think reading 20000 is a great idea, but Dorian Grey is really dull. I've tried it twice. Once you're done with them though you should watch "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" amazing movie full of classic literature characters!
Lezlie: Thanks - same to you!
Holly: Lol! I get that too occasionally, with tv. I'm sure I've heard a line before and eventually realise it must've been on youtube.
Breezey: Actually, that movie is one of the reasons I picked those two books! I want to eventually read all of the books it references. Maybe that would've been a better challenge idea...
LOL!!! That's why I read them!!!! One of my first posts was on that movie!!! I've read about three quarters of the books now!!! There's a list of them on the IMDB page for it not all of them some of them you have to really dig to figure out what book they are but wow!!! I can't believe I found someone else whose seen it!!!
But yeah definitely a good challenge idea!
Lol! It's an awesome movie! I think it's on tv here this week actually. I was just looking at the wiki page for it - I didn't know it came from a whole comic series!
I meant this to be a longer comment but my fish'n'chips has just arrived... =D
I actually kind of want the comics even though I've never read anything like that, but in the comics Mina is the leader of The League so.... That would be so cool!!!
It would! I wish they'd done that in the movie instead of her being sort of the token woman. I'm not much into comics either... I'd rather a tv series!
I like Quartermain. And the book he's from is far better than Mina or Dracula but then again... Mina could have been cast better and the movie Quartermain was way more forceful a person than the one in King Solomon's Mines...
But never going to see a woman leading men in Hollywood.
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