Classic read for 2014

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Many years ago I made a vow to read at least one thing every calendar year considered a major classic in literature. Some I've enjoyed greatly, a couple I've hated, but persevered through. This year's choice is Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol. I'm about 1/3 of the way through it (it isn't very long) and enjoying it a respectable amount. I haven't read a lot of classic Russiany fiction (Anna Karenina, read for a class many years ago, some Chekhov stories, Zamiatin's magnificent dystopia We, a couple of other things), but I'm tempted to give more of it a go. Notably something by Turgenev, Pushkin, Lermontov. We'll see.

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I reread Pride & Prejudice a couple times a year. It's almost time for my first reread of the year actually, I always manage to enjoy it. Been doing the same thing for around 6 or 7 years.
 

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I've started doing the same thing, only in the fantasy genre. Last year was The Hobbit, which I had somehow missed being assigned to read in school like almost everyone else. Wasn't a huge fan but then, I've never been able to read LotR either. The writing just puts me straight to sleep every time. =/

Haven't decided which one to read this year yet.
 

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I've been making an effort to catch up on some classics, too. (The fact that I own a Kindle and a Nook, and many of them are free downloads, hasn't hurt. ;) ) I'm still spooked by anything that looks too thick and literary, but I'm picking my way through others.

The last one I read was The Virginian, by Owen Wister. Maybe not a classic on the Moby Dick scale, but I mostly enjoyed it. I have more in queue - a couple Dickens titles, Darwin's book, and The Three Musketeers - though I have Other Things that need my attention right now.
 

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Many years ago I made a vow to read at least one thing every calendar year considered a major classic in literature. Some I've enjoyed greatly, a couple I've hated, but persevered through. This year's choice is Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol. I'm about 1/3 of the way through it (it isn't very long) and enjoying it a respectable amount. I haven't read a lot of classic Russiany fiction (Anna Karenina, read for a class many years ago, some Chekhov stories, Zamiatin's magnificent dystopia We, a couple of other things), but I'm tempted to give more of it a go. Notably something by Turgenev, Pushkin, Lermontov. We'll see.

caw

I try to get everyone I know to read that one - especially anyone who claims to like dystopias.