Popular novels, past and present

[felis_ultharus]

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[melting_penguin]

Congrats on being done (almost)!

Hmm, I think I've read at least 3/4 of that list...most of it was delectable.

[felis_ultharus]

It is a pretty good list -- everything there was once popular, so someone liked it :)

[blumunk]

No Wuthering Heights? Why not? That was unexpectedly one of my favorite books.

[felis_ultharus]

I've just been avoiding the 19th century, my least-favourite literary period for prose.

I have been pleasantly surprised by some (Pride and Prejudice, the half of Jane Eyre I've read). But for the most part the period is just painful to read.

I might re-consider Wuthering Heights, though. what did you like about it?

[em_fish]

And btw, Atonement is brill. It's a masterpiece, and oh so very sad.

[felis_ultharus]

What's it about...?

[em_fish]

It's about a lot of things, but mostly it is about a girl who witnesses a crime at her family estate in 1935. She doesn't witness it in the sense of actually seeing it, but put it this way - she knows the truth of what happened better than most of the adults around. Someone is falsely accused of the incident, and she spends a good chunk of her life trying to reconcile herself with her role in the whole mess.

[felis_ultharus]

It does sound interesting. I may add it to pile.

Then, when I construct my fortress out of books I intend to one day read, it shall form part of battlements :p

[sugar_spun]

The Time Traveller's Wife is a nice book. But that's sort of all.

You might like the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. It's about an autistic boy trying to solve a mystery.

[felis_ultharus]

That's an interesting premise. It sounds like the sort of thing that would be hard to pull off well.

What's The Time Traveller's Wife about?

[sugar_spun]

It's a love story about a man who involuntarily time travels to various points in his own life, and the woman who loves him but first meets him when she's a child.

[felis_ultharus]

That's a neat premise for a book.