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I'm an atheist, so I don't believe in heaven, hell or angels of death. It still doesn't make sense to me, and I'm perfectly aware that if you think deep about something you can twist every statement...

Because that doesn't make sense.

Hi. :)

Yes, I read a huge load of these books when I was younger. I think I still have all of those books lying around somewhere. I can't give any titles, though, 'cause I mostly read the Dutch translations.

Heh, same to you, buddy. Those internet quarrels are getting a bit tiring anyway. :p

I know what I am but what are you? (now that we're speaking about high school level anyway)

Anyway, it seems like we've been in some kind of misunderstanding. No hard feelings?

Actually, as I forgot to mention, I was giving my views as experienced in the last classes of highschool, which is bound to be a difference, because, as is obvious from your statement, the university...

It depends on the book, but the main point throughout most of his novels is social cricitism; the poor treatment of paupers (due to the New Poor Law) in Oliver Twist, and the slow bureaucratic...

Maybe I could give some advice from a student's point of view. Over the years I've had many teachers, who had me read books in many different languages. It's needless to say that their styles of...

Shakespeare is not modern at all. Of course you can take a look at his themes, and see a link with certain present-day issues, but in that fashion pretty much everything ever written is modern....

Thanks for the info everyone. I think I'll get around reading this in the summer (seeing as I'm quite busy reading all of Dickens's novels), and I'll be sure to drop by and tell how I like it.

So far, it's Charles Dickens's 'Bleak House'. My copy had about 740 pages, but the lettering was small, and the pages rather big. I think there are some versions around with about 900-1000 pages.

Actually, I rather enjoy King. His works aren't high-standing masterpieces of literature, but it's nonetheless enjoyable to read one of his short stories after finishing a long and difficult book by...

'The World According To Garp' by John Irving. I've never read anything by Irving, and the book is quite long. If I start reading it, and conclude that it sucks after 50 pages, I'll have to force...

Yeah, Multatuli is great, and writes much like Dickens (which is no coincidence; I saw the book case in his birth house, which is now a museum, and there were quite a lot of Dickens's books in it;...

Hehe, yeah. I'm not at all familiar with Eastern European literature...

But it sounds interesting, and I'll try and read it sometime.

Yeah, it actually was the first Dickens book I've read. At times, it wasn't what you'd call a particularly 'pleasant read', but the philosophical nature of the book still makes it brilliant. I can...

...but I only discovered this board, just now. Well, I'm Iain, I'm from The Netherlands, and I only recently started reading again. I stopped reading for a long while in my high school period (which...

Very difficult to tell. It could be 'Het Spiegelkasteel' (The Castle of Mirrors), by the late Dutch children's author, Paul Biegel. It could also be 'Bijna Iedereen Kon Omvallen' (Almost Everyone...

It's easy to point the finger at a 1837 book and condemn it. I think one should place it within its time context. Back then, it was not something anyone would take immediate notice of. In books of...

Oh, thanks!

Weird though, we must've watched that movie right after it came out. I think I'll get it in the holidays, as I've just finished reading the book (and I must say that I totally loved...

My mother recently bought me a copy of Anna Karenina at a flea market. The name Tolstoy sounded familiar, and after some research on Wikipedia I found out that he is one of the most famous novelists...

For me, it's definitely the 19th century. Dickens, Poe, Multatuli, Balzac, Baudelaire, and some works of Goethe.

Though the 20th century also had a great deal of fantastic authors, I really must...

Isn't it a part of Les Fleurs du Mal?

Due to sheer boredom and random curiosity I've been wondering for a while what Dickens's longest novel is. Personally I guessed it was Bleak House, but it's hard to tell, because the difference in...