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Classic English books and whether or not I have read them

AlduinAlduin
edited 2017-05-14 17:18:15 in General
Legend
Normal text - Nope
Italic - Read
Bold - Watched at least one adaptation
Italic and bold - Read and watched at least one adaptation

A Little Princess
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Good Earth
The Catcher in the Rye (I'm also familiar with some of Salinger's other stories)
The Great Gatsby
To Kill A Mockingbird
Macbeth
Moby Dick
A Christmas Carol 
Great Expectations
The Hobbit (bolded, unfortunately)
Frankenstein
1984
Dracula
Sense and Sensibility
The Color Purple
Murder on the Orient
Siddartha 
Anna Karenina
The Threepenny Opera
Death of a Salesman
Greek Mythology
Night of the Living Dummy

Comments

  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    edited 2017-05-14 14:20:39
    kill living beings
    Anna Karenina isn't in English. And the hobbit is better in the original westron
  • AlduinAlduin
    Huh? I thought that was the Russian guy that learned English and then proceeded to play fun tricks on it using his status as an ESL speaker?
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    No, Nabokov did that

    Tolstoy wrote in his native tongue.
  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    kill living beings
    same for "greek mythology" ofc, unless you are specifically referring to bullfinch or someone i guess.
  • AlduinAlduin
    Oh, I was referring to the Edith Hamilton edition.
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Yeah, Nabokov wrote most of his later work in English, most famously Lolita, Pale Fire and "The Vane Sisters".
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Siddhartha was written in German
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    A Little Princess - no, but I have seen Strain, which is inspired by it
    The Hound of the Baskervilles - I forget if I have.  probably not.  but i have the book.
    The Good Earth - no
    The Catcher in the Rye - yes
    The Great Gatsby - yes
    To Kill A Mockingbird - no
    Macbeth - yes
    Moby Dick - no
    A Christmas Carol - no but i've seen multiple retellings on TV
    Great Expectations - yes
    The Hobbit - no
    Frankenstein - no
    1984 - no
    Dracula - no, but i recently acquired the audiobook (wherein "recently" means in 2008)
    Sense and Sensibility - no, but I did read Pride and Prejudice
    The Color Purple - no
    Murder on the Orient - no
    Siddartha - no
    Anna Karenina - no
    The Threepenny Opera - isn't this an opera?  but I haven't watched/listened to it
    Death of a Salesman - no, but I have read The Crucible
    Greek Mythology - is this a category or a work name?  i've read substantial parts of the Odyssey and some other things like Antigone
    Night of the Living Dummy - no
  • FossilmaidenFossilmaiden
    image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    Brecht described The Threepenny Opera as a "play with music", although it's an adaptation of a German translation of The Beggar's Opera, which, well, was an opera.
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