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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
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The complete works of Shakespeare is huge! I have better things to do with my time. But I have read many of his plays and a few sonnets. Read some Lawrence, quite a bit of Dickens, and I do try and read things like Dracula, Moby Dick etc. Thats been made easier lately as most 'classics' are free for Kindle now.
I won't ever read Jane Austen though. Just not my thing. |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
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"The complete works of Shakespeare is huge! I have better things to do with my time. But I have read many of his plays and a few sonnets. Read some Lawrence, quite a bit of Dickens, and I do try and read things like Dracula, Moby Dick etc. Thats been made easier lately as most 'classics' are free for Kindle now.
I won't ever read Jane Austen though. Just not my thing."
I have read pretty much everything by Tolkien though. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"has anybody actually managed to read the complete works of shakespeare, dickens, d.h.lawrence or any other prolific author!"
Many authors including Dickens but only some of Shakespeare's works.
"What, have you not read it through?"
"No Sir. Do you read books through?"
Dr Johnson. |
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I have, lee child
I had intended to read the complete works of Tom Clancy but there were too many crap collaborations
Also read the complete works of Tom sharpe. I like writers called Tom
Read the complete works of stig larsson too |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"ive beeen reading dickens for the past couple of years, tho not the complete works! and i was in the tempest production at school!"
One of the finest authors in the English speaking world in my view.
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"ive beeen reading dickens for the past couple of years, tho not the complete works! and i was in the tempest production at school!
One of the finest authors in the English speaking world in my view.
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ive got a beeautiful tiny leather bound copy of Tale of two cities! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Read the complete works of Oscar Wilde, loved his works since school days. Also read a lot of Shakespeare and dip into his 'complete works' when needs be. |
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Ive got all of dickens downloaded on my kindle as i was embarressed to say i had never read oliver twist. Ive got David copperfield on the go but just leave it and go back to it.
I have A level english literature but managed to escape as much of shakespeare as i could, unfortunatly i have no interest in shakespeares writings i just cant get into it |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Read the complete works of Oscar Wilde, loved his works since school days. Also read a lot of Shakespeare and dip into his 'complete works' when needs be. "
"women represent the triumph of matter over mind just as men represent the triumph f mind over morals".
Only Oscar Wilde...... |
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"Ive got all of dickens downloaded on my kindle as i was embarressed to say i had never read oliver twist. Ive got David copperfield on the go but just leave it and go back to it.
I have A level english literature but managed to escape as much of shakespeare as i could, unfortunatly i have no interest in shakespeares writings i just cant get into it"
i bet you read the complete shades trilogy tho, didnt you! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I've read many of Shakespeare's poetry but on the odd occasion I've attempted to read his novels/plays I've been distracted by some rain running down the window or maybe by a streetlight turning on outside. He just doesn't grip me with his stories, but his poetry grabs me by the lapels and forces me to pay attention.
Having said that, the often quoted excerpts from some of his plays (Romeo, Romeo, where for art thou; or Cry Havoc! And let loose the dogs of war! (from Julius Caesar)) is pretty good stuff.
Kenneth Brannagh fucked Shakespeare up for me though as he takes it oh so seriously, darling. Can't stand the guy (met him and he's a pompous ass). |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I'm a closet 'classics' reader and take pleasure from reading them. But then I did study English literature at university because I love it so much.
Anything from The dream of the Rood, in original old English to Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, Chaucer's Canterbury tales, Troilus and Criseyde.
I love them all and usually read the complete works.  |
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"I'm a closet 'classics' reader and take pleasure from reading them. But then I did study English literature at university because I love it so much.
Anything from The dream of the Rood, in original old English to Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, Chaucer's Canterbury tales, Troilus and Criseyde.
I love them all and usually read the complete works. "
Canterbury Tales is a mucky book of the olden days isn't it? full of naughty saucy monks and the suchlike! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'm a closet 'classics' reader and take pleasure from reading them. But then I did study English literature at university because I love it so much.
Anything from The dream of the Rood, in original old English to Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, Chaucer's Canterbury tales, Troilus and Criseyde.
I love them all and usually read the complete works.
Canterbury Tales is a mucky book of the olden days isn't it? full of naughty saucy monks and the suchlike!"
There is all sorts in there, like a 14th century soap opera.  |
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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago
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"iv read the complete works of
Lee Childs
Harlan Coben
Karin Slaughter
Dennis Le Hane
Patricia Cornwall
does that count "
If you like Coben and Child I recommend you try Simon Kernick his are very good |
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"I'm a closet 'classics' reader and take pleasure from reading them. But then I did study English literature at university because I love it so much.
Anything from The dream of the Rood, in original old English to Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, Chaucer's Canterbury tales, Troilus and Criseyde.
I love them all and usually read the complete works.
Canterbury Tales is a mucky book of the olden days isn't it? full of naughty saucy monks and the suchlike!
There is all sorts in there, like a 14th century soap opera. "
people dont really change due they? books written all that time ago are still relevant to us today. Thats what surprised me about Dickens too! |
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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago
Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria |
"iv read the complete works of
Lee Childs
Harlan Coben
Karin Slaughter
Dennis Le Hane
Patricia Cornwall
does that count
If you like Coben and Child I recommend you try Simon Kernick his are very good"
I couldn't get away with Simon Kernick, only read a couple....
My list is
Terry Pratchett
Lee Child
Stephen King
Dean Koontz
Jonathan Kellerman
Faye Kellerman
A few others, maybe not so prolific, but read them all
Diana Gabaldon
Jean M Auel
Kelley Armstrong
Not really one for the classics, keep promising myself to read Dante's Inferno and got it on my Kindle, just haven't managed to get into it yet....have been reading Brief History of Time for about 20 years and still haven't got past about page 17
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By (user no longer on site)
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Dean Koontz is one of my favourite authors but there's a poem he wrote that features in The Book of Counted Sorrows but it also appears in Sole Survivor. It epitomises how I feel about religion/God:
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The sky is deep, the sky is dark.
The light of the stars is so damn stark.
When I look up, I fill with fear,
if all we have is what lies here,
this lonely world, this troubled place,
then cold dead stars and empty space...
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Well, I see no reason to persevere,
no reason to laugh or shed a tear,
no reason to sleep and none to wake,
no promises to keep and none to make.
And so at night I still raise my eyes
to study the clear but mysterious skies
that arch above us, as cold as stone.
Are you there God? Are we alone?
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"Dean Koontz is one of my favourite authors but there's a poem he wrote that features in The Book of Counted Sorrows but it also appears in Sole Survivor. It epitomises how I feel about religion/God:
The sky is deep, the sky is dark.
The light of the stars is so damn stark.
When I look up, I fill with fear,
if all we have is what lies here,
this lonely world, this troubled place,
then cold dead stars and empty space...
~
Well, I see no reason to persevere,
no reason to laugh or shed a tear,
no reason to sleep and none to wake,
no promises to keep and none to make.
And so at night I still raise my eyes
to study the clear but mysterious skies
that arch above us, as cold as stone.
Are you there God? Are we alone?
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This is quite a well quoted poem now isn't it but i didn't realize where it came from although i have heard it often. Its stunning! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"This is quite a well quoted poem now isn't it but i didn't realize where it came from although i have heard it often. Its stunning!"
Yes it is stunning. It always brings to my mind a picture of a sad parent/spouse speaking angrily to God at the funeral of their lost loved one. |
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"This is quite a well quoted poem now isn't it but i didn't realize where it came from although i have heard it often. Its stunning!
Yes it is stunning. It always brings to my mind a picture of a sad parent/spouse speaking angrily to God at the funeral of their lost loved one."
Or just sitting outside your tent, camping under a quiet star filled night sky and feeling the wonder! |
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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago
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"This is quite a well quoted poem now isn't it but i didn't realize where it came from although i have heard it often. Its stunning!
Yes it is stunning. It always brings to my mind a picture of a sad parent/spouse speaking angrily to God at the funeral of their lost loved one."
I see it as still hopeful as the protagonist still keeps looking to the skies to see if God is there...
Believers might say eventually he'll get a reply, agnostics might see it as a triumph of hope and atheists may see it as a pointless exercise...it's a beautiful poem however you interpret it |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I had to read Midsummer night's dream and the scottish play for O'level. Unfortunately I had no interest at the time and ended up reading the Lambs Tales versions the night before the exam and hoped to remember some quotes.
Almost got away with it as I got a D !! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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3 lines from the 47th sonnet which never fail to move me….
Thyself away art resent still with me;
For thou not farther than my thoughts canst move,
And I am still with them and they with thee...
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By (user no longer on site)
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Not quite the same but the only author I have read pretty much the full set of is Bill Bryson.
I also love Alan Bennett stuff.
The only Shakespeare I have read is 'Merchant of Venice' (twice) |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"which complete works have you read?"
Jeremy Clarkson.
And also working my way through the complete works of several forumites!!!
Hard though - as the bloody system only shows their last 35 posts!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Not quite the same but the only author I have read pretty much the full set of is Bill Bryson.
I also love Alan Bennett stuff.
The only Shakespeare I have read is 'Merchant of Venice' (twice)"
OMG yes Bussy,,,,,,
I love all Alan Bennett's work....the guy is a masterful writer,,,,,
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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Shakespeare is better seen or heard than read. Well paced it is thrilling. One of my English teachers, a wonderful flambouyant thespian, used to make us perform scenes rather than just read them silently to ourselves.
If you're parading around the Dickens festival in November say hello.
No one has mentioned reading all of JK Rowling but we all know many of us have. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Shakespeare is better seen or heard than read. Well paced it is thrilling. One of my English teachers, a wonderful flambouyant thespian, used to make us perform scenes rather than just read them silently to ourselves.
If you're parading around the Dickens festival in November say hello.
No one has mentioned reading all of JK Rowling but we all know many of us have."
Ralph Feinnes and Gerard Butler did a sterling job in the movie version of Coriolanus.  |
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By *aceytopWoman
over a year ago
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"Shakespeare is better seen or heard than read. Well paced it is thrilling. One of my English teachers, a wonderful flambouyant thespian, used to make us perform scenes rather than just read them silently to ourselves.
If you're parading around the Dickens festival in November say hello.
No one has mentioned reading all of JK Rowling but we all know many of us have.
Ralph Feinnes and Gerard Butler did a sterling job in the movie version of Coriolanus. "
ooo going off thread but i love Gerard Butler |
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"Shakespeare is better seen or heard than read. Well paced it is thrilling. One of my English teachers, a wonderful flambouyant thespian, used to make us perform scenes rather than just read them silently to ourselves.
If you're parading around the Dickens festival in November say hello.
No one has mentioned reading all of JK Rowling but we all know many of us have.
Ralph Feinnes and Gerard Butler did a sterling job in the movie version of Coriolanus. "
i much prefer books to film as i am always disappointed, lord of the rings for example! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"William mcgonagal takes some beating."
My dad's version of McGonagall's Silvery Tay.
Ah the Tay the Tay, the silvery Tay.
Runs doon from Perth, twice a day. |
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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago
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"William mcgonagal takes some beating.
My dad's version of McGonagall's Silvery Tay.
Ah the Tay the Tay, the silvery Tay.
Runs doon from Perth, twice a day. "
Did he write about the wee lassie who wore a kilt? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"William mcgonagal takes some beating.
My dad's version of McGonagall's Silvery Tay.
Ah the Tay the Tay, the silvery Tay.
Runs doon from Perth, twice a day.
Did he write about the wee lassie who wore a kilt?"
Not my dad, unless she was called Polly Styrene ..... he had a song about her. |
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"Read the complete works of Oscar Wilde, loved his works since school days. Also read a lot of Shakespeare and dip into his 'complete works' when needs be.
"women represent the triumph of matter over mind just as men represent the triumph f mind over morals".
Only Oscar Wilde......"
Strange how if you put a name to a quote everyone pretends it's phenomenally witty. It's like the Emperor with no Clothes - no one dare speak out.
I like some of Wilde's quotes. I like many modern wits more. |
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"Shakespeare is better seen or heard than read. Well paced it is thrilling. One of my English teachers, a wonderful flambouyant thespian, used to make us perform scenes rather than just read them silently to ourselves.
If you're parading around the Dickens festival in November say hello.
No one has mentioned reading all of JK Rowling but we all know many of us have."
Reading J.K. Rowling isn't something i'd admit to!
It's not quite as bad as saying you read all of the Fifty shades books. |
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