Haha, sucks, my favorite books here are the ones that take the longest (2 days!) to listen to!
Count of monte cristo is an awesome story. I highly recommend reading it, though if it is too long to help you reach your goal it can be put off. But it's a great book.
The Jungle is awesome, but it may make you never want to eat things like hot dogs ever again. Great book though. One of the few I had to read forcibily in high school that I actually enjoyed.
Sense and Sensibility is funny. Tess of the D'Urbervilles was definitely readable, I enjoyed it. Haven't read Uncle Tom's cabin, but it's high on my list and I've heard good things about it. That rounds out the five I voted for.
Emma, Jane Eyre, Moby Dick bored me silly. Blech. The Scarlet Letter... has its ups and downs. I read it because in high school we were given a reading list of 10 books and had to choose 2, and my dad found it and said that was the only book he read in school that he liked, so I was curious (since my dad can't really read...) and though there are some parts that you have to slog through, and the characters are not likeable in general, it's not awful. Have only read parts of Canterbury Tales, and I do agree with whoever above me said it'd probably be a lot easier to listen to than read.
The rest of the stuff I haven't read, so I have no opinions, really. Of them, I'd be most interested in ... Around the world in 80 days, Divine Comedy, Man in the Iron Mask, Portrait of the Artist.. and Siddhartha, just based on things I've heard about them and some of the others.
I reached my goal, so now I'm only listening because I want to. Time isn't an issue anymore. :D
I'm glad The Count of Monte Cristo is getting as many votes as it is. After a day or two when I close the poll I'm going to arrange them from most votes to least and then listen in that order. And if I were to vote myself, that's one of the ones I'd pick, but the length of it is intimidating, which is why I haven't listened yet.
And, lolz, The Jungle. Yeah. We were made to read, like ... maybe three pages of it in 8th grade. That was 1998. It was nearly ten years before I ate sausage again. No exaggeration.
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Date: 2010-02-21 06:43 pm (UTC)Count of monte cristo is an awesome story. I highly recommend reading it, though if it is too long to help you reach your goal it can be put off. But it's a great book.
The Jungle is awesome, but it may make you never want to eat things like hot dogs ever again. Great book though. One of the few I had to read forcibily in high school that I actually enjoyed.
Sense and Sensibility is funny. Tess of the D'Urbervilles was definitely readable, I enjoyed it. Haven't read Uncle Tom's cabin, but it's high on my list and I've heard good things about it. That rounds out the five I voted for.
Emma, Jane Eyre, Moby Dick bored me silly. Blech. The Scarlet Letter... has its ups and downs. I read it because in high school we were given a reading list of 10 books and had to choose 2, and my dad found it and said that was the only book he read in school that he liked, so I was curious (since my dad can't really read...) and though there are some parts that you have to slog through, and the characters are not likeable in general, it's not awful. Have only read parts of Canterbury Tales, and I do agree with whoever above me said it'd probably be a lot easier to listen to than read.
The rest of the stuff I haven't read, so I have no opinions, really. Of them, I'd be most interested in ... Around the world in 80 days, Divine Comedy, Man in the Iron Mask, Portrait of the Artist.. and Siddhartha, just based on things I've heard about them and some of the others.
Yay for probably unhelpful blabbering comment!
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Date: 2010-02-21 09:37 pm (UTC)I'm glad The Count of Monte Cristo is getting as many votes as it is. After a day or two when I close the poll I'm going to arrange them from most votes to least and then listen in that order. And if I were to vote myself, that's one of the ones I'd pick, but the length of it is intimidating, which is why I haven't listened yet.
And, lolz, The Jungle. Yeah. We were made to read, like ... maybe three pages of it in 8th grade. That was 1998. It was nearly ten years before I ate sausage again. No exaggeration.