I heard about Gaskell's novel North and South, but didn't read it. I will tell you my opinion, God Willing, when I read it!Quote:
Originally Posted by miss tenderness
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I heard about Gaskell's novel North and South, but didn't read it. I will tell you my opinion, God Willing, when I read it!Quote:
Originally Posted by miss tenderness
I tried to read North and South but could not get through it so left reading it. It is my habit to stop reading the book that I don't find interesting and North and South was so boring that I left reading it in the very start. I will not like to suggest someone to read her novels. There are better authors.Quote:
Originally Posted by miss tenderness
How can you forget ,,Gone with the wind''? It's my favourite novel from all times!
I must recommend Stuart-a life backwards by Alex Masters but I must warn you as well that there is more than meets the eye as it is a non-fiction about a homeless, psycho, hostage-taker thief. Its really brilliant.
I would recommend Strangers on a Train, by Patricia Highsmith. Forget the Hitchcock movie! This is the original book on which the movie was based and as so often happens, the book is MUCH better! It's all about an ordinary everyman who loses his very identity (and his moral compass) after meeting a satanic version of himself. Think "Mirror Universe From Star Trek" and you'll get the general idea.
"Treasure Island," by RL Stevenson is one of the greatest adventure novels ever written. Many of it's phrases have become common usage today, such as "Dead Man's Chest." In addition, Long John Silver has to be one of the most evil and insiduous villians in fiction. I have read this novel countless times, and recommend it highly.
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Originally Posted by Ahmed-Adel
May I recommend Gaskell's Mary Barton. I assure you that you're gonna love it , if we share the same taste. I'll be pleased to discuss it with you .I read it like three years ago and still remember its characters. Pensive , I agree with u about better authors .
I could never forget Elizabeth and Darcy from "Pride and Prejudice" (isn't it obvious from my username?). They're just incredible characters and I fell in love with them immediately! "Nicholas Nickleby" and "A Tale of Two Cities" are also firmly stuck in my memory. There are just so many special books out there that I just can't mention them all.
First, thank you for recommending another novel :). This is very nice of you. Sorry for replying so late :(Quote:
Originally Posted by miss tenderness
Second, I am sure we will discover that we have the same taste! As long as you love Jane Austen, then our taste is so close.
I actually don't know whether I will find that Mary Barton; but anyway I will tell you my opinion about North and South -- I am forced to read it as we will have it in our Novel course next year God Willing :). I think that since you said it is good, then it is good. Your opinion is enough for me.
Now, I was really amazed when I saw the Arabic words in your signature. Wow, are you an Arab? Are you a Muslim? Greatly excellent will it be if so!
Waiting for your reply ya Miss Tenderness!
Salaam :)
Hi Lizzy,Quote:
Originally Posted by ElizabethBennet
I am happy you love those characters; they are adorable. Nice Avatar.
Jane Austen is excellent in portraying characters and describing them. She has a sense of irony also which adds to her merits. Nice Avatar.
Has anyone seen Pride and Prejudice the movie? It is really excellent also. Nice Avatar.
Charles Dickens is also one of my favourites. I cannot forget the character of Oliver Twist or David Copperfield. They are still living in my mind -- and in many others' minds.
Hey, you know Arabic? This is good. I am surprised by your good command of English though you are originally from Germany.
Nice Avatar! It is a very good pose. :thumbs_up
Sorry for digressing from the main topic here; but, as Tristram Shandy says in L. Sterne's Tristram Shandy, "Digressions... are the sunshine; ––– they are the life, the soul of reading..."
Sorry, too, for calling you Lizzy without having permission first!
Ahmed ,did i recommed North and South? maybe it'll surprise you that I have not even read it :lol: idefinetly did not recommend it. I loved Gaskell coz of Mary Barton.
I am a Muslim ,hamdulilah, apparently you did not see that coming?
dear new member Elizabeth Bennet, I wish you to find ur Darcy :) happy to have you here . how is it going in Lebenon?can't people live in peace just for one year?
Well, I know you did not recommend it :). It is the only novel I knew by Gaskell!Quote:
Originally Posted by miss tenderness
This is excellent you are a Muslim. I felt this from the Arabic words in your signature. Actually I didn't share in or see the Religious Forum, so I didn't know you are a Muslim before this! Now I know :).
Hey all,
Did the novels die or what? :D
Novels do not die... Remember this!
I have still some more novels living in my mind. I still remember the details of George Orwell's Animal Farm. I still remember Boxer's character. I will never forget the scene when Boxer was taken from the farm -- that was too melancholic :( .
What about all of you? I want this topic NOT to die :thumbs_up
Hmm, there are indeed so many novels out there that can never die, whose characters leave an indelible imprint on our minds... I haven't even read HALF the classic novels out there, but so far, these are a few of the books I could not forget:
Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams (it's a play, but can't help mentioning it)
And many more to come! :D
A few others I forgot to mention: Lord Of The Flies by William Golding, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy, Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck, and, of course, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.