Reading list

[contrasedative]

This list is subject to revision.

On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons by Kurt

Comments

[etotheipi]

I strongly recommend against reading Wuthering Heights. Or anything by a Bronte sister. Or by Jane Eyre. Crime and Punishment is excellent, and Catch-22 is pretty good to. Haven't read any of the others.

[etotheipi]

I meant to say Jane Austen. I fail at life.

[ratatosklemur]

I managed to answer a question "Emily Bronte by Jane Eyre" once at a tournament--wrong order and wrong author.

[ratatosklemur]

Wuthering Heights isn't that bad, although I found parts of it more drawn out than I'd have prefered.

Dubliners I read for English class last quarter and it was ok, but nothing especially special in my opinion.

I haven't read any of the others except Gatsby.

[contrasedative]

I want to attempt Joyce but am afraid of the full-length novels. Do you have a recommendation for something to replace Dubliners (any author) if I end up deciding against it?

[prionz_rok]

I think On the Road is overrated...granted, I never finished it, it was too winding and verbose even for my taste. I've never seen all of A Doll's House, but the snippets I've been exposed to I really liked.

[contrasedative]

I like it so far, but actually, the main reason I'm reading it is that I know someone else reading it at the same time, so we're talking about it.

I'm looking forward to A Doll's House because I liked Hedda Gabler and want to read more Ibsen in general, so I thought I'd start with one of his best-known plays. (I read Peer Gynt a long time ago, but no one else I talked to at the time had heard of it, so it was not useful and by now I've mostly forgotten about it for lack of relevance.)

[mooncircus]

Don't read The Awakening...or I guess you could, it's short, but it's not very good, all she does is whine all the time. How do you know Daniel Rowlands?

[ratatosklemur]

Quizbowl. I was on Eleanor Roosevelt's team (the only real quizbowl team in PG county).

[contrasedative]

These books are on my list for different reasons. I'll probably read The Awakening at some point, because I have a friend who very much wants to talk about it, but I could always cut it from the list.

[despiojarse12]

Have you ever read "Notes from Underground" ? It's also Dostoevsky, but shorter than Crime and Punishment.

[contrasedative]

I haven't read Notes From Underground, but I'll keep it in mind for when I'm done with Crime and Punishment (either liking it and wanting more Dostoevsky or giving up because of length).