I’ve read 2,3,8,7b, and 10. With 10, the last 65 pages are impenetrable. The sex is pretty hot - Rand was into being taken by men, period. It was nearly rape fantasy.
Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations are actually good reads if you read it like it was written - they were serials. You read a chapter, then do it again the next night. Dickens essentially created the soap opera.
Art of War flies by, and so does the Prince. Amazing that someone actually captured it.
Shocked that War and Peace wasn’t there. Not sure I’d attempt it. Federalist is almost a reference. Haven’t tried Tocqueville yet, or Moby Dick.
I think just about everyone has read “Great Expectations”. I had to read it in 10th grade. Actually thought it was really good. My Daughter had to read it and absolutely loved it.
Now I bet my grand children will have to read it in a couple of years.
“Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations are actually good reads if you read it like it was written - they were serials.”
Yes, still a great concept. I imagine people must have been on the edge of their seats waiting for the next installment. Like I am about the TV Show “nashville” now!
Of Dickens I’ve read “A Tale of Two Cities”, but years ago I’d really have to read it again; “Great Expectations”, “A Christmas Carol” both of which I liked; “Pickwick Papers” which I loved, a few others I started by never got anywhere with them.
Now wait, I might be lying about that, lol! I don’t know if I started any of the rest of them...I might be thinking of seeing movies and reading the “Classic Comic Books”.
Those were pretty good, btw. Didn’t someone on this thread say they got a way with a book report based on one of those?
You’d think we could revive them in this age of the “graphic novel”.