Amsdorf<\/strong>:\u00a0 I\u2019m glad to hear you too have taken up the book. I have been reading it slowly, on and off, for nearly a year. It is a text to luxuriate with. It is very slow going but the book, as you indicate, is masterful. I have intentionally *not* seen any movie, or play, based on the book yet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nMe<\/strong>:\u00a0 Well-said, Amsdorf. \u201cA text to luxuriate with.\u201d I did the same kind of \u201con and off\u201d reading for over a year, actually, with War and Peace.<\/em> That\u2019s actually not a bad way of reading a 19th century super-novel. I should have one going all the time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Which started me thinking:\u00a0 Which one should I take up next?\u00a0 My wife is reading Trollope, no less.\u00a0 Maybe one criterion should be that it\u2019s so old, so classic, and so un-commercial that it\u2019s available free on Kindle.\u00a0 But I won\u2019t press that point.\u00a0 What would you suggest?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My post about Les Miserables provoked some good discussion\u2013including teaching me another telling internet abbreviation (\u201cTL;DR,\u201d meaning \u201cToo Long; Didn\u2019t Read\u201d)\u2013including this exchange: Amsdorf:\u00a0 I\u2019m glad to hear you too have taken up the book. I have been reading it slowly, on and off, for nearly a year. It is a text to luxuriate with. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,34],"tags":[3119],"class_list":["post-18648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-personal","tag-19th-century-novels"],"yoast_head":"\n
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