I haven't read it... Have you?

Lolita contains some of the best writing I have ever read. Really, Nabokov's prose is just exquisite. Consider the first line (which I am narrating from memory here),

'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.'.

Chilling in context of the story but damn if it doesn't send shivers down your spine.

I haven't read 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens.

I have read Great Expectations couple of times. Even though Dickens can be too melodramatic at times, I like what he tried to achieve in Victorian Era and his sarcastic approach towards British aristocracy.


I haven't read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly is actually a good read, but if you are expecting Boris Karloff, forget it. The monster of the book is able to reason, talk, etc. It still has superstrength, is virtually indestructible, and so forth, but it is not inherently evil. Victor Frankenstein's own fears and lies turn the monster into the raging machine of destruction.

I've never read Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Erm, Pendragon, we just did 'Gone With The Wind' a couple of posts back. Can you post another book?

Sorry.....:blush:

I've never read The Window at the White Cat http://www.smileyville.net/mellow/mf_bookread.gif

I have ( thanks pen :D)
lets see Ive never read
madam Bovary by G. Flaubert

I have read Flaubert's Madame Bovary a long time ago. Somehow, I found some of the conflicts in the plot similar to that of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina - maybe they inspired each other a bit. Very beautiful novel, regardless.

I have never read Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham.

I’ve read Of Human Bondage and enjoyed it immensely. Made my oldest daughter read it and she was thoroughly disgusted with the weakness of the main character. Too each his own I suppose.

I haven’t read A Tale of Two Cities

unforunatly I have read a tale of two cities. Didnt hate it so much as what to throw up from the fact that the discription was so good I was sure I could smell blood and the gilloutine *shudder*

I havent read The city of Beasts by Isabelle Allande (not sure if I spelt her name right)

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I havent read The city of Beasts by Isabelle Allande either, but I read her excellent edition of Zorro. It was a welcome addition to my collection, I must say, exploring the things that caused Zorro to take up the mask in the first place. :thumbs_up

I haven't read Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.

I have read Slaughterhouse Five.


I haven't read (this will be easy) The French Leuitenents Woman by John Fowles

I have read "The French Lieutenant's Woman" by John Fowles. And I'm rereading it at the moment. It is sublime. A historical drama, written in a victorian style, but it keeps reminding you that it was written in more modern times (mentioning the second world war, referring to a character as 'square' - it was written in 1969! - and constantly drawing attention to the similarities and differences between the victorian way of thinking and our own).

I haven't read "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf.

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Originally Posted by Xamonas Chegwe

I haven't read "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf.

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Originally Posted by Xamonas Chegwe

I haven't read "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf.

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I've read To The Lighthouse and I consider it in the top five great english novels of the 20th century.

I haven't read Stendal's The Red and the Black.