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Books I'm too embarrassed to say I've never read.....

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kweggie · 07/09/2012 15:19

War and Peace
Anna Karenina
To Kill a Mockingbird...

There! It's out in the open! I did it!

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Francagoestohollywood · 07/09/2012 17:37

I didn't manage to finish Crime and Punishment.

SaraBellumHertz · 07/09/2012 17:28

I've read Anna Karenina but I couldn't possibly discuss it because I have no idea how to pronounce Karenina Blush

Can someone tell me if it's phonetic? Or is it ka-ree-na ?

joanofarchitrave · 07/09/2012 17:27

Let's face it, nobody prior to 1890 or thereabouts had ever read War and Peace either, and they survived.

DH gave me a beautiful copy of Anna Karenina shortly after we met because I hadn't read it. I'd been about to read it for 20 years. I've now been about to read it for 28 years.

[whisper: actually, War and Peace is fucking amazing, once you get past the first chapter, which is like a French and Saunders spoof of 19th century period drama. But I read it before I had kids.]

BeeBawBabbity · 07/09/2012 17:26

I haven't read War and Peace either, but I have read Anna Karenina, and really enjoyed it. It's weighty but worth it.

I live in Wales and I'm embarrassed to say I've never read any Dylan Thomas.

Mintyy · 07/09/2012 17:23

Really, don't be embarrassed. Its not the law or anything.

MrsBitchArseUsedToBeBran · 07/09/2012 17:20

I've never made it past the first three pages of Ulysses.

I haven't read War and Peace or Anna Karenina as I had to read loads of Dostoyevsky (sp?) at university and that put me off all Russian writers.

I don't like Dickens (I have read a fair few of his but found them a bit of a drag).

I didn't read Catcher in the Rye until I was in my 30s and I really hated it.

I've only read a couple of Brontes, and I can't remember (and don't really care) which Bronte wrote them.

Ilovedaintynuts · 07/09/2012 17:11

I'm not read War and Peace or Anna Karenina but have read To kill a mockingbird.

I'm also ashamed not to have read Crime and Punishment, Les Miserable, Vanity Fair, Persuasion, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, A Town Like Alice, Dracula and any Oscar Wilde or Charles Dickens.

I've read loads of 'modern' classics though

ZiaMaria · 07/09/2012 17:06

I've never read them either. I did try Anna Karenina, but seriously - too depressing.

War and Peace has too many characters whose names start with the same letter. I have enough trouble remembering all the characters normally, so I stand no chance. Also, no-one has ever ever (who has read it) told me what a fantastic story it is...which speaks volumes to me.

Mockingbird I also never read. Mainly because I like happy endings and was told by a friend that it is a perfect book to read when you are 13 and full of angst.

Rumours · 07/09/2012 17:00

I've not read your first 2 either but have read the third. Don't be embarrassed Grin