Book challenge, #4.1
Limits or no, I can’t leave this one out. It’s the best book I’ve ever read and I’m not good choosing favorites. I’m not even done with it, I just keep reading and reading and reading.
Most often I read a novel fast, to get the plot, I have to know what happens. I go back later to savor. This one I can’t stop savoring. (It helps that I know the story, I guess.) It must be an excellent translation. I love this book.
Jonathan Wolfman
09/26/2019 @ 12:47 pm
What a wonderful choice.
Jonna Connelly
09/26/2019 @ 12:54 pm
I feel like I should have included more classics but, as I said, I have trouble with favorites. How would I choose one Dickens or one Austen? Do they even compare with les Miz or some of the others? (My memory is rapidly disappearing anyway.) For years I couldn’t read Louise Erdrich because her work moved me too much. After a few years of therapy I could read her but pick a favorite? Not possible. If I went and stood in front of a bookcase I could come back and gush all over the place. There are too many really, really good books written.
koshersalaami
09/27/2019 @ 12:10 am
I hadn’t thought of Bleak House, but it wouldn’t be a bad candidate
12/04/2019 @ 4:45 pm
I can’t tell you how much it pleased me to see this conversation, until I saw how old it was. I wouldn’t even have seen it if I weren’t doing a massive set of corrections that required me to look at every major page on the site. Still working on it.
jpHart
08/20/2020 @ 5:59 pm
What a wonderful world
[sic]•••so I said to myself•••*
*Louis Armstrong
jpHart
12/27/2020 @ 11:49 am
‘Wikilectual’ et.al. and down my found page includes ’50 Best Books on Poverty’* —
*Best Masters Social Programs….
I’d searched as my paperback Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo, has a different cover.
#1 ‘best book’ is Great Expectations….daunting the fifty book read…and its synopsis and articulateness is 0 so regrettably contemporaneous. The hour is late …