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all these book clubs - anyone want to do a classics one

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Cappuccino · 16/01/2008 11:02

I don't know how it will work or anything

I'm not the how guy

but there was that thread the other day about classics and I am rereading Sense and Sensibilililililility (not an original choice I'll grant you but still)

and I thought wouldn't it be nice if we reread classics and talked about them, or at least reminded one another what the feck the plot was (it is a Long Time since my English degree)

whaddya think?

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TillyBookClub · 16/01/2008 12:07

Cappuccino, I read that thread too and was inspired - we're going to do a mumsnet favourite classics month for February (ie the next one, after we;ve done Tim Dowling's book this month).

I was going to put together the selection from the most popular ones on that thread - which one do you fancy putting forward?

ahundredtimes · 16/01/2008 12:16

Oooh Tilly, is this a take-over/merge/acquisitions move? You might get reported to the Monopolies Commission you know.

Cappuccino · 16/01/2008 13:46

but there are all these threads where they are reading books

I want to reread lots

not just one

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MamaVonG · 16/01/2008 13:47

only if you promise NOT to look down your noses at us, biiiitch

DarrellRivers · 16/01/2008 13:48

oh yes, I'm going to read Vanity Fair next, or maybe Jane Eyre, or Crime and punishment...
haven't quite decided

MamaVonG · 16/01/2008 13:51

cappy if you start one, i will tell you how to organise it (learn from my mistakes )

I won't be in it though

bundle · 16/01/2008 14:05

trollope?

ZippiBabes · 16/01/2008 14:06

well tuf cap you are only allowed to read one and that wil be selected by due process pmsl

MamaVonG · 16/01/2008 14:07

there's no need to be rude to cappy

Cappuccino · 16/01/2008 14:09

That's great Darrell and bundle good to have you on board

now the rest of you, piss orf

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Cappuccino · 16/01/2008 14:09

oh sorry MamaG you came to my aid

thanks for your kind offer

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bundle · 16/01/2008 14:09

luv hardy

Cappuccino · 16/01/2008 14:18

really bundle? I used to but then I got more and more annoyed at how miserable it all was

I wanted to shout at people in the books

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wombling · 16/01/2008 14:22

I'm In Capp, altho won't do Hardy, find it all too miserable TBH.

Cappuccino · 16/01/2008 16:05

you can read whatever you like dearie

tell us about it

there are no rules here

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bundle · 16/01/2008 16:06

@ miserable

hadn't really thought about him like that, apart from Jude the Obscure, obviously

Cappuccino · 16/01/2008 16:07

oh no I was wrong bundle

Tess has a lovely happy ending

everyone gets married and has cake

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bundle · 16/01/2008 16:10

@ cake

maybe that could be a theme of the books..

MamaVonG · 16/01/2008 16:42

I love hardy too

onebatmother · 18/01/2008 22:22

Blood and thunder Cappie no wonder I missed it the first time - saw book clubs, missed the c word, carried on skimming down list of millions of threads!

HOwswhomsoever:
I would like to join.

bundle · 22/01/2008 12:01

bbc have announced today they will do a drama based on tess. they'll prob ruin it

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