Reading is never off topic is it? - Page 8

>> Olwyn.Mary wrote:
>>> Cheryl Isaak wrote:
>>>>>> I should be embarrassed to admit it, but I never did get all the fuss
>>>>>> about
>>>>>> Jane Eyre. So maybe a re-read is in order. There were several
>>>>>> references
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> The Eustace Diamonds and The Lady in White, so I'm thinking I'll
>>>>>> start
>>>>>> there.
>>>>>> C
>>>>> I'm thinking that I read it as a kid. That makes a big difference
>>>>> in what
>>>>> you believe is greatness.
>>>> Well, I read JE in my mid teens - at point were I didn't believe in
>>>> romance.
>>>> Lust, desire yes, romantic love - hell no. I could see it was a great
>>>> novel,
>>>> well written and all that, but that is about that.
>>>> DD is currently contemplating reading "Twilight" just to see what all
>>>> the
>>>> fuss is about.
>>>> Cheryl
>>> Even in my teens I thought she was a twit.
>> I almost laughed out loud at that line - it brought a flashback. I so
>> remember DD telling me how much she HATED Tess D'Urbervilles (sp?) when
>> she was required to read it for school. DD, who hasn't been without a
>> book in her hands since first grade, and regularly read books way past
>> her age level- mostly sci-fi/fantasy, but this one was like pulling
>> teeth. "Tess is SUCH a TWIT!" she complained.
>> She's still a huge reader, but never got into Victorian lit. Still
>> sci-fi/fantasy!
>> Sue
> Ah, for twitdom - Ethan Frome. The only book that I remember forcing
> myself
> to read as it was required for English class. Reading it - long, drawn
> out,
> boring, boring, and you want to strangle these people for their own
> misery.
> The movie with Liam Neesom - somewhat better. But still. I do remember
> thinking that Ethan Frome was more torturous to read than Silas Marner
> "oh,
> Hepzibah." My only adult experience coming close in torture to sit/read
> through - the play "Light in the Piazza" - which travelling company was
> soooo bad that it made "Little Women (the musical that shouldn't have
> been)"
> good by comparison. And spawned our own lyrical song taken from the show
> "she was kicked, kicked, in the head - in the head, kicked in the head, by
> a
> pony, shetland pony, shetland pony....." Much to the amusement of the
> clerk
> in the Ken Ctr gift shop when we performed for her the other night (before
> The Color Purple).
> Victorian Lit - the books by AS Byatt - I loved these modern takes.
> ellice

>

>
> Ah, for twitdom - Ethan Frome. The only book that I remember forcing myself
> to read as it was required for English class.

> Victorian Lit - the books by AS Byatt - I loved these modern takes.

"Susan Hartman" wrote >
> The one book I couldn't get through in HS and BS'd my way through the
> report was "Moby Dick." I hated it. Carried the guilt for decades. (Not
> guilt for hating it; guilt for BSing.) Well, a few years ago I decided to
> reread it and see if a more adult perspective helped; it didn't. Still too
> long, too boring, and hated it all over again. (But finished it, by golly!
> Penance!)

>> Just finished "The Thirteenth Tale", which I highly recommend to all the
>> Jane Eyre fans out there.
>> Finished about an hour ago, Naameh's Kiss. Same world as her Kushiel's
>> series, but set several generations after. I suspect a few more books to
>> follow.
>> Any one got a few good suggestions? Reading the Thirteenth Tale made me
>> think about re-reading Jane Eyre or more likely Trollope.
>> Off to do my fund raising thing and then the grocery shopping and on to
>> the
>> garden. Since it's supposed to rain most of tomorrow, I want to dig
>> today.
>> Cheryl
> I've been into really quick fast, light, fun reading and I'm right now in
> the middle of something called Charley's Webb by Joy Fielding. It's not
> bad and holding me. One of my friends has read each of her books and
> says she liked most of them.
> Jane Eyre sounds like an interesting re-read. I'm always a little
> reluctant to do that with something I loved for fear it won't hold up and
> I'll be disappointed.
> L

>
>>
>>> Just finished "The Thirteenth Tale", which I highly recommend to all the
>>> Jane Eyre fans out there.
>>>
>>> Finished about an hour ago, Naameh's Kiss. Same world as her Kushiel's
>>> series, but set several generations after. I suspect a few more books to
>>> follow.
>>>
>>> Any one got a few good suggestions? Reading the Thirteenth Tale made me
>>> think about re-reading Jane Eyre or more likely Trollope.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Off to do my fund raising thing and then the grocery shopping and on to
>>> the
>>> garden. Since it's supposed to rain most of tomorrow, I want to dig
>>> today.
>>>
>>> Cheryl
>>>
>>
>> I've been into really quick fast, light, fun reading and I'm right now in
>> the middle of something called Charley's Webb by Joy Fielding. It's not
>> bad and holding me. One of my friends has read each of her books and
>> says she liked most of them.
>>
>> Jane Eyre sounds like an interesting re-read. I'm always a little
>> reluctant to do that with something I loved for fear it won't hold up and
>> I'll be disappointed.
>>
>> L
>
>
> Jane Eyre will NEVER let you down.
>
> One of my favourite re-reads is always the Lord of the Rings - you always
> seem to find something you never really noticed before - or just forgot - I
> read it about every threee years.
>
> The Mary Stewart books about Merlin from bastard son of a Roman general and
> Welsh slave, through to old age draw me in every few years, too - lovely
> read. (The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, and The Last Enchantment).
> Here`s the write-up from Amazon which sums it up:-
>
> "I've read the Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart many times over the years and
> have always found it magical and truly enchanting. Mary Stewart has woven a
> "realistic" tapestry of dark age Britain using Merlin as the central
> character to tell most of the Arthurian saga from a different point of view.
> Was Merlin a magician? Perhaps, but he was more than that; a doctor,
> engineer, philosopher and creator of a future. All this could seem like
> magic to early Britons and Mary Stewart does indeed give Merlin some real
> magic. Above all else, this is a romantic story, the story of a boy
> searching initially for his father and in doing so becoming entangled in a
> story bigger than himself, bigger than his desires and as big as the
> landscape Stewart weaves. Get it, read it, love it... I guarantee you will
> return to it again and again."
>
> The Wicked Day is another excellent follow-on to the trilogy. In fact now
> I`ve remembered them I think I`ll spend all my Amazon vouchers (earned from
> doing surveys!) on replacing my now rather battered copies!
>
> Pat
>
>