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7. The Hobbit - I don't know if this will ever come off of this list. I went through a huge Tolkien craze my junior year of high school. I read the whole Lord of the Rings series followed by all of the Appendices and The Silmarillion. But I read 40 pages into The Hobbit and could go no further. I feel like this makes me less of a Tolkien fan, but I just couldn't get into it like the other three books.Also, from looking at the linky, there are way more people in the Never Read Dickens Except for A Christmas Carol club than I thought.
8. Paradise Lost - I've wanted to read this book since we read an except of it in my high school British lit class. I even started it at one point, but after 30 pages of getting hit over the head with mythological references I had no idea about, I decided to put it on the back burner and read a book about Greek mythology in preparation. Well that took awhile and by the time I finished, I needed some light reading and never went back.
9. Anything by Dickens OK. This isn't necessarily true. I did read A Christmas Carol. But that was like reading the transcript of every movie version of that novel. So, I've never read Dickens. I feel like I should, but have never taken the initiative to do anything about it.
Read more Dickens! He's great.
ReplyDeleteAnd read The Hobbit.
/End Demands. lol
lol. If I got anything from reading the comments yesterday, it was read The Hobbit. Well at least RE I think my problem with The Hobbit was I was just Tolkeined out at the time.
ReplyDeleteI'll give it another go.
I recommend A Tale of Two Cities if you want to try some other Dickens. I remember liking it in high school when I thought I would hate it! It's also the only other Dickens I've read aside from A Christmas Carol. :)
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ReplyDeleteThe Hobbit?!?! Oh no! You absolutely must read it soon!
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