Literature
Thanks to The Broke and the Bookish for hosting this weekly event! Considering my obsession with lists, I could not pass up the opportunity to participate in this one which asks to list your top 10 most intimidating books. When it comes to literature, I am a big fan of brevity so most of my entries intimidate me because of their size:
- Authors (chronological By Date Of Birth)
Authors: Chaucer to Shakespeare Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare Authors: Donne to MiltonJohn Donne, Ben Jonson, John Webster, John Milton Authors: Bunyan to Gray John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope,...
- Book Blogger Hop: March 6th - March 12th
A few years back, I had a lot of fun participating in the Book Blogger Hop hosted by Billy at Ramblings of a Coffee Addict and was surprised to discover that it was still going on! Blimey, it kinda feels like stepping into a time-warp. Anyways, this is...
- Top Ten Tuesday: The Top Ten Most Difficult Books I Have Read...or How I Learned To Avoid Ulysses
Yikes, I can't believe it's Tuesday again! Where does the time go? Soon Christmas will be around the corner. I've been meaning to post some more reviews last week but work has kept me quite busy and any free time has been spent, well,...
- The Classics Club
I stumbled upon this site by accident and it seems like the perfect way to get back into reading! In conjunction with my literature frenzy challenge, here is a condensed list of 50 "classics" (subject to change) that I hope to finish by 2017: ...
- The Literature Frenzy Challenge!
Welcome to my ultimate reading challenge! This will be an on-going project of mine and I hope to read everything on this list before departing from this world. I am always open for recommendations so if you want me to read something that is not already...
Literature
Top Ten Most Intimidating Books
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace: Have you seen the size of this book? It's 1000+ pages with extensive footnotes and heavy enough to be used as a deadly blunt object!
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville: It's lengthy and about whaling, which does not interest me in the least. Not sure I possess the endurance to get through this one.
- Brothers Karamazov by Dostoeyevsky: I have struggled trying to read novels by the great Russian authors and this one is pretty massive in length.
- Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon: Everything about this guy's crazy high-brow style of writing is intimidating and makes me feel like an idiot.
- Middlemarch by George Eliot: Again, size is a deciding factor and I have had nothing but painful experiences when it comes to reading Victorian novels.
- Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner: It's kind of a sequel to The Sound and the Fury... *gulp*
- Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: From a quick perusal, I just get the feeling that his style of writing will make this one a challenging read.
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: I gave up on this novel several times but it is a required reading for one of my classes next semester, ugh. So not looking forward to it.
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath: A lot of hype for this one and I fear it will be very disappointing.
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: Again, it's one of those beloved Russian classics that is massive and one that I fear may not meet my high expectations.
- Authors (chronological By Date Of Birth)
Authors: Chaucer to Shakespeare Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare Authors: Donne to MiltonJohn Donne, Ben Jonson, John Webster, John Milton Authors: Bunyan to Gray John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope,...
- Book Blogger Hop: March 6th - March 12th
A few years back, I had a lot of fun participating in the Book Blogger Hop hosted by Billy at Ramblings of a Coffee Addict and was surprised to discover that it was still going on! Blimey, it kinda feels like stepping into a time-warp. Anyways, this is...
- Top Ten Tuesday: The Top Ten Most Difficult Books I Have Read...or How I Learned To Avoid Ulysses
Yikes, I can't believe it's Tuesday again! Where does the time go? Soon Christmas will be around the corner. I've been meaning to post some more reviews last week but work has kept me quite busy and any free time has been spent, well,...
- The Classics Club
I stumbled upon this site by accident and it seems like the perfect way to get back into reading! In conjunction with my literature frenzy challenge, here is a condensed list of 50 "classics" (subject to change) that I hope to finish by 2017: ...
- The Literature Frenzy Challenge!
Welcome to my ultimate reading challenge! This will be an on-going project of mine and I hope to read everything on this list before departing from this world. I am always open for recommendations so if you want me to read something that is not already...