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The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
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The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) ( Read more... )
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Did you like Frankenstein? Comments about it? should I start to read it?
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In Bronte novels there are a lot of storms and heaths and wildness. Austen by her own description works in English countrysides in parlors.
The kinds of plots they write Are similar but the approaches are completely different.
Frankenstein was an interesting read as both a product of Romanticism and a critique of it. My brother is rather fond of Dr. Frankenstein's excesses and he enjoys mocking them.
Did I like it? I suppose so, though Dr. Frankenstein gets really annoying at times. He gets too dramatic. It was one of the better things we read for that class, but I think has to be approached from that Romanticism vs. critique of Romanticism angle. Also it's better to read it with the expectation of Dr. Frankenstein as an unreliable narrator.
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