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Hi there newcomer feel free to comment on anything. I hope you broght some defibrilator with you .

My opinion as a Russian Litarature enthusiast : Tolstoy "Resurrection" . This is the best so far.

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Hi, sorry my answer is late, i had a technical problem in my laptop (is there any non-technical problems). I prefer always paper (let's say physical) copies of books but i can't always get them from amazon it is a matter of money and time and of course first of all i seek that book in my native language. When i first bought Nook i am surprised about how precise it shows the page because tablet/laptop reading corrupts eyes very badly, but some time had passes and i got a feeling that i have not quite finished the books i have read in Nook. Strange feeling for me because i am not a person vauleing the outside or the physical side of the books ( maybe i should). Then when a time came i only use it for some not translated and old books like George Orwell's complete essays or for example the book you suggested. You would admit it is tempting to download corpus of Jack London or Steinbeck in less than a minute. I am looking forward to buy Kobo Aura. I need light.

I have a Kobo, and I have tried to get into reading e-books, but nothing beats holding a well-worn beloved copy. Example: I can't put rose petals in an e-book of Mrs. Dalloway. I use my Kobo on long plane rides so my carry on doesn't weigh a ton.

I had once Father Brown Stories but i never have managed to see the last page. I generally get those old books from Gutenberg free in epub format. I can't recommend enough that little device NOOK . I find the "The Club of Queer Trades." in Gutenberg and got it. I put it in waiting list.

Right now, I am enjoying G.K. Chesterton's "The Club of Queer Trades." Its a small collection of short stories but they are a fun read at the end of the day.

I have finished the Beckett's Trilogy "Molloy, Malone Dies, Unnamable" the second time. First was 1.5 years ago (seems like yesterday to me cos i'm old you see) and i had a very hard time like hell finishing the last part again. You must read that but with a grain of salt. It may be frustrating but i liked it very much.

Wow, that is interesting. When i first discovered Woolf (2003 senior year in high school), I read Mrs. Dalloway every year, in June. I think Flush is just delightful. As far as Eliot goes, I had to read Middlemarch for a British Novel class in college. While everyone else was moaning about how tedious it was, I couldn't put it down. Go figure.

* Second an answer to my friend Pointclickster. I think Virginia Woolf as the highest of British Literature. I mean simply the best of that island. Some younger essays and well known titles (A room of one's own) of her are dull, i don't know, never liked them but other literature and non fiction works are as i have said the peak of British English. I have read Adam Bede and found it good but Middlemarch , oh my god, i was having seizures while reading that novel. Not just a boring novel "The" Most Boring Novel which is said to be the Best English novel by many cirtics and some unknown people of sorts. But google says she is borin but again google says anything. I can prefer Thomas Hardy any day. He is communicating reader through pages. I liked him more. I mean if we are talking about that period of England. Tess and Jude are very fine novels.
Ps. There are really good point'n click games on GOG. but by them on discount.

* First I am not that much interested in Shakespearean Mythos. Yes he is good with words and all but what are those nonsensical dialogues and meaningless acts ? Another thing is as you have said, to criticise him is considered as more blasphemious than blasphemy. I suggest you to read Tolstoy's "What is Art"; that little book cleared many things in my head and saved me from some kind of academic quadmire in which i have been struggling for years. In it he criticises Shakespeare to a level even i (a nonbeliever/faithless sinner like me) find too much to bear. I like to read Shakespeare once in a while. He is not that bad.

Dear onur, Virginia Woolf was/is one of my favorite modern authors. If you like her, I strongly suggest George Eliot. I've read Tolstoy and Dostoyevtsky, but I prefer Tolstoy, since he is more optimistic in his overall viewpoints. Right now I am thoroughly enjoying the writings of G.K. Chesterton.

But in English, its considered sacrellige or a travesty to put on a "true" Shakespeare play and not have it be in the original (ie dead) form of the language, so it gets religated to the dusty halls of acedemia. Where if you translated it, most of his stories are kick-ass adaptions of even older stories completely designed for the average joe.

LOL. No dear. Its cuz I'm hard on *myself* for reading "light reading" ... I don't know where I picked it up, but "literature" equates in my mind as boring. Therefore something like Dumas (Sr.) isnt literature cuz its awesome. I have not read enough of Dumas the younger to have an opinion.

Theres an interesting thing on Shakespeare. I was reading some writings by a phd of linguistics, John McWharter(sp).

He speaks a few languages fluently. He wrote the best Shakespeare play he had ever seen was in France. Because it was translated into modern French. He wrote that really, who understands everything in Shakespeare, like some of the monologues of the fools? He said even he does not, and he makes it a point to study older forms of English.

Dear friend, I accept that Dumas' (pere) works of course as the the real litarature ; Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers still have the highest standards like other classics. I think you are being a little nervous as if i create a classroom environment here but maybe you accuse yourself unconsciously because of reading too much of a light stuff. Dumas (fils) is very hardly joked upon in Russian litarature in many instances ( i haven't read "La Dame aux camélias" but it was a big hit i guess back in that time period).
Second Russian literature is not hard to read. Just remmember your pain of being alive.
Third Oprah's Bookclub. I was so eager that in 6 years time i have made a list of 1200 books i must read from all over the world. Believe me that is a very surpsing thing for me to encounter any valuable but not known (underdog) book in Oprah'sBookclub (thanks to amazon) made me confused so long ago. I respect her (or her mentors).

Hes like "This one isn't. Its a story of a guy who gets falsely accused and thrown in a dungeon and looses everything, and he escapes and gets vengeance." That got my attention. I still have the mental image of my imagination riding along with Dantes as he was in the corpse sackcloth being drug around andpitched out of the Chateau d'If with an iron ball chained to him

And the best part about forgetting parts of a book is being able to read it again!

Hey. Russian lit isnt easy to read. You arent exactly picking up the Oprah's Bookclub list over there. I think its awesome that you read that. I read Anna Karenina.....once. Sort of. I just couldnt get into it. But my friend who loves Slavic culture *loves* Russian lit. I guess its because I have less than no interest in a) the timeperiod its set in, b) that part of the world.

I do however, like Dumas. I don't know if you can count that as "literature", but damn, I read the Count of Monte Cristo for the first time when I was 12 and it blew my mind. My dad told me about it because I said "Old books are boring", cuz I'd rather read my fantasy and he was trying to get me interested in wider stuff.

Dear Raxiel, our tastes are very near even though i don't read sci-fci or fantasy but you would admit that those bestsellers and other trendy stuff doesn't necessarily need our support here. Reading is not so easy for me, i think i am a blockhead. I read books twice with at least 4-6 monts between two reading. Otherwise i forget them. That's all for now bye.

I have no problem with people who read fiction set in this reality or bestsellers, although I dont understand if you could go anywhere and see anything why you would limit yourself that way...

At least its *reading*....which is fast becoming a lost art. To me, its effortless, the reality I sit in ceases to exist, theres no words on the page, just the image the words make in my head. I know some people have that ability, but I dont think everyone does.

I read a lot of Jung, never really got into the russian literature. Oh, I like Machiavelli too, I just finished the prince for the 3rd time.The non fiction I read is mostly scientific, anthropological and natural science. I love mythology and have huge amounts of mythology talesfrom many culures around the world (although due to the way I percieve reality I hesitatre to call them "myth") The other stuff is my equivelent of watching tv, reading lightweight fantasy/scifi when I justy want to read to relax. Junk food reading. Still better than watching TV, IMHO

I stop watching tv, i read mostly literature: ancient, russian and comtemporary. Besides that i read fairy tales, mythology and Jung. My favourites are Faulkner, Woolf, Proust, Russians (Tolstoy, Dostoievsky, Turgeniev, Goncharov, Sojenitsin, Gogol).

I dont own a TV that gets any channels, and my bedroom is wall-to-wall bookshelves. I read mostly sci-fi, fantasy, and nonfiction.

If I'm not working, hanging out, or gaming, Im reading.

i prefer a cartoon comic any day against potter

Harry Potter the best