So the man who often sits opposite me on the train seems to be reading Classic Novels in alphabetical order. Who wants to guess what he's going to read next?

[foxinsocks]

So I have only noticed this recently... I have seen him read

Frankenstein
Great Gatsby
Heart of Darkness
The Importance of Being Earnest
Jane Eyre
Kim

so what do you think will be for L? M?

ok. my money (a tenner accumulator) is on:

little dorrit
middlemarch
nostromo
orlando
phineas redux
quo vadis
rebecca
sons and lovers
tristram shandy
ulysses
villette
woman in white
(generation) x
(chrome) yellow
(franny and) zooey

i believe you foxy.

I really want to do this myself!

animal farm
bleak house
cold comfort farm
dracula
eustace diamonds.....

What train?

the 5.15 to penge

I think it will be Lolita if it is going to be a classic... Love in the time of Cholera seems to recent to be a classic yet?

I like this thread, glad your commute has some points of interest fox in socks!

He would make a good character in a book Mr Alphabetical.

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then moby dick....?

Take all your L books on the train on Monday. When he reveals the book you get the same from your stash. Start reading and then look over. He'll think it's meant to be. He'll make eyes at you. You'll raise an eyebrow in literary recognition. He'll stand up to come towards you. You'll realise he's 5' 1" .....

Whata brilliant idea. Love in a cold climate, Mansfield Park. What was his A,B,C,D and E? Can you remember?

Please tell us what he reads next.I NEED to know

and tell him I will post the P title to him...

[The] Private Memoirs and Confessions of A Justified Sinner by James Hogg

if anyone likes a classic then they should read this, it will wipe the floor with all other classics imho, it was published in 1824.

I love this. How far through Kim is he? I decided to set myself a challenge. Do you remember that BBC top 100 books series a few years back? Where it was full of Harry Potters etc? Well I decided I would read all of them. I have read quite a few (including War and Peace, phew) so I have just ticked those off. I am currently on Tess of the D'Urbervilles. The last Thomas Hardy I read was for GCSE and was the Mayor of Casterbridge only 21 years ago!

What about the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe for a bit of easy going?

Ok, I told DH about this last night and he is very excited and has written a list to do it himself!

I dare you to ask him & then report back to us.

I think we should all write a list - the only thing is I don't commute being sahm, so it isn't quite the same!

ohh bozza, wuick hijack - i too am working my way through the top 100! some have been really hard to get into though, im reading them just to tick them off. currently reading a prayer for owen meany..

Lorna Doone and Middlemarch

foxinsocks, you should start at Z, although I can only think of Thus Spake Zarathustra off the top of my head, and work backwards through the alphabet

Zuleika Dobson

Oh yes much better idea!

I can only think of The Young Visiters and I don't know if that counts as a classic.

For U you have to read Ulysses .

have never read that, but it's supposed to be good - would you recommend it?

(young visiters that is, I have read Ulysees - well, some of it )