About Time I Read
Penguin have started a campaign on Twitter for people to admit to the books they haven't read. Last year, I finally got around to starting on my literary gaps, with The Trial and A Study in Scarlet.
Here are some of the books I should have read but still have not.
1. David Copperfield (Charles Dickens) - I was supposed to read this 20 years ago for my VCE and couldn't bear it. It was just too many characters for me to keep separate in my head. Maybe I'll try to borrow a copy from someone.
2. The Millennium Trilogy (Stieg Larsson) - I'm going to get started on these in the next couple of months.
3. Oedipus Rex (Sophocles) - I inherited (well, had hand-me-downed) my father's copy of a 1978 Penguin edition of the Theban plays (Antigone, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus), which has been sitting on my bookshelf for years.
4. Anything by Agatha Christie - I have the same trouble with Agatha Christie that I had with Dickens, too many characters to keep track of. Perhaps I should start with something that I've seen a movie of, so that I can keep some faces in mind.
5. Emma (Jane Austen) - I think I've tried to start this a couple of times, but I found it the literary equivalent of eating dry, slightly stale white bread. It just left me wanting something to moisten my palate.
I'm sure there are plenty of others, but I just can't think of them at the moment.
You may wonder why I haven't posted anything in a little over 11 months. Partly, it's because I have been posting on my Wordpress account, and partly it's because my internet speed is now so slow (again!) that I've been reduced to only posting here, and I just generally can't be bothered, given how everyone else seems to have abandoned LJ almost completely.
Edited to add authors' names.
Here are some of the books I should have read but still have not.
1. David Copperfield (Charles Dickens) - I was supposed to read this 20 years ago for my VCE and couldn't bear it. It was just too many characters for me to keep separate in my head. Maybe I'll try to borrow a copy from someone.
2. The Millennium Trilogy (Stieg Larsson) - I'm going to get started on these in the next couple of months.
3. Oedipus Rex (Sophocles) - I inherited (well, had hand-me-downed) my father's copy of a 1978 Penguin edition of the Theban plays (Antigone, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus), which has been sitting on my bookshelf for years.
4. Anything by Agatha Christie - I have the same trouble with Agatha Christie that I had with Dickens, too many characters to keep track of. Perhaps I should start with something that I've seen a movie of, so that I can keep some faces in mind.
5. Emma (Jane Austen) - I think I've tried to start this a couple of times, but I found it the literary equivalent of eating dry, slightly stale white bread. It just left me wanting something to moisten my palate.
I'm sure there are plenty of others, but I just can't think of them at the moment.
You may wonder why I haven't posted anything in a little over 11 months. Partly, it's because I have been posting on my Wordpress account, and partly it's because my internet speed is now so slow (again!) that I've been reduced to only posting here, and I just generally can't be bothered, given how everyone else seems to have abandoned LJ almost completely.
Edited to add authors' names.