Thursday Thirteen is a weekly meme with a simple theme: each Thursday you blog a list of 13 things. What kind of things? Any kind! Just come up with a list theme and run with it.
Classics. Books many have read, and yet many others haven’t. Here are the ‘classics’ we should read, but won’t.
Brianna’s List:
- Anything by Jane Austin
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- The Odyssey by Homer
J9’s List:
- The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien – NEVA GONNA READ THIS, EVA!
- Les Mis̩rables by Victor Hugo РHave you seen how many pages that is...and the slut shaming? Nope.
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Kill me now.
- The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien – See number one.
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier – I should, not sure why I haven't.
- Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie – Never interested me.
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith – Dunno why I haven't read this.
- Watership Down by Richard Adams – Seems all children's books I was reading at the time were sad and I said I needed a break from sad and just never returned to read this one.
- The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux – Long story: I once ushered for a very off-off-Broadway production of gender-bent Phantom and it was so horrible that I wrote off the entire story. The End.
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez – I suck.
- Heidi by Johanna Spyri – A girl yodeler? No, thanks.
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand – If you say you read this, you're a liar ;-)
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Which classics haven’t you read?
OK, I have read The Fountainhead and I'm not lying. I went through a period where I had really long commutes, and I listened to a LOT of books I wouldn't have touched with someone else's barge pole, let alone my own.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't the worst thing I listened to, but it was close.
I promise I was joking and wouldn't call you a liar :)
DeleteLove both of these lists! Have to admit that I own the complete LOTR set, but know deep in my heart that I will never read them. I did read A Tale of Two Cities on a dare and was surprised that I enjoyed it. Won't read any other Dickens, but that one wasn't bad. Also read Lolita as a teen to see what all the fuss was about and was bored.
ReplyDeleteHad to read Great Gatsby for school and hated it. Also hated Hawthorne with a passion! Jane Austin isn't bad, and I read Little Women as a pre-teen and liked it. Wouldn't read it now, but liked it as a kid.
Terri @ Alexia's Books and Such...
I loved Jane Austen! She kinda got me into romance!
DeleteOMG... J9, I'm dying... EVA! Because... no... go ahead and add all of The Chronicles of Narnia--I tried once... I have not the patience nor the time... Speaking of "have you seen how many pages...?" War and Peace... NO... never gonna happen... although I will admit I read A Tale of Two Cities in high school AP English, though I honestly think I skimmed through most of it. I couldn't tell you about it on a dare. Brianna... also in high school... The Great Gatsby and The Catcher and the Rye... this may be why I told myself I despised reading until I was well in my twenties. *sigh*
ReplyDeleteYes! War and Peace is scary long. I read it when I went through my I'm-a-serious-twenty-year-old-in-a-beret-trying-to-impress-the-hot-European-exchange-student phase.
DeleteJ9 - I can't believe you read WAR & PEACE. Wow.
DeleteCrissy - Maybe I did read Catcher in the Rye in school...can't remember. But I wouldn't read it by choice. LOL And I didn't start reading until my early twenties either :)
LOL... and no... never by choice... I did go through a Shakespeare phase in my life where I chose to read Othello and Hamlet. Those two books were as long as that phase lasted... and J9 lurve the beret and foreign exchange student thing. This could totally be a book ;)
Deletei cant seem to get through Anna Karenina ! im on my third try . <3 Bee @ Bee Reads Books
ReplyDeleteAgain, another time I read a book to impress a boy :D
DeleteThere are so many on your lists that I would put on my Will Not Read list as well. I like your series. Cool idea.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Bree, lists are fun to do. I just can't seem to keep it as a list, I have to monolog about them! Lol
DeleteFrom Brianna's list, I HAVE read Persuasion by Jane Austen, The Catcher in the Rye, and A Clockwork Orange.
ReplyDeleteFor J9's list, I HAVE read The Hobbit. I tend to shy away from really, really old classics because they are difficult to understand or are long and sound boring. haha
-Lauren
I'm of the mind that the only real trilogy is Star Wars so out of loyalty I'll never read The Hobbit :)
DeleteWhat a fun post!! Most of the ones from Brianna's list that I have read, I read in high school (because they were assigned :-). I couldn't get through The Hobbit, even though I tried. I am currently reading Watership Down again with my kids and I did read Heidi along with my daughter relatively recently (there's no yodeling involved :-).
ReplyDeleteNicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction