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Classic Club Spin #39



Time for another spin with the Classic Club. Here are the simple rules. Publish a post on your blog before Sunday 20th October 2024. Add your list of twenty books that you want to read. You should read the book before 18 December 2024. Which book should you read? You have to wait until Sunday, when the spin number will be generated. Here is an updated list from me.


My Spin List (as of 16 October 2024)

1. The Master and Margarita by Michail Bulgakov

2. Zadig by Voltaire

3. Daisy Miller by Henry James

4. The Seahawk by Rafael Sabatini.   

5. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoj

6. Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast by Oscar Wilde

7. Child Harold by Lord Byron

8. Where Eagles Dare by Alistair MacLean

9. The Red and the Black by Stendhal

10. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

11. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 

12. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James

13. The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

14. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

15. The Viscount de Bragelonne by Alexander Dumas

16. Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

17. The Big Four by Agatha Christie

18. The Brothers Karamazov by Fjodor Dostoevsky

19. The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier

20. The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde


Is there any book in general that I wish will come up? Not really, this time I am happy with the list. Although if Dostoevsky would come up, I am not sure I will be able to finish it before the deadline. But, who knows.



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Guest
Oct 28, 2024

#3: I have recently read a few by him, but not this one. Enjoy! https://wordsandpeace.com/2024/10/21/the-classics-club-what-i-got-for-the-classics-spin-39/

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thecontentreader
thecontentreader
Oct 29, 2024
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James is a favourite of mine, even if I have not read that many books by him. But, I am sure I will like it.

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Guest
Oct 16, 2024

Nice list! I have read 9 of them, and actually #19 is my favorite. #1 is great , but you need to read it in an edition with lots of notes, because it's basically political cryptic message. Emma @ Words And Peace

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thecontentreader
thecontentreader
Oct 29, 2024
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Thank you Emma. Du Maurier is good, but I have actually not read that many books by her. Looking forward to #19. Thank you for the tip of Bulgakov. I did read many years ago, and must admit I did not understand too much. I think I read differently today, so will make another go, hopefully to find a version with notes.

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Debbie Nance
Debbie Nance
Oct 16, 2024

The book on your list that I haven't read I want to read the most is The Master and Margarita by Michail Bulgakov. You have several others I want to read including The Red and the Black.


The book on your list that I have read and loved the most is The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. The problems in the story are such American problems that I'm not sure others outside America would find them as compelling.

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thecontentreader
thecontentreader
Oct 29, 2024
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I did read The Master ... many years ago. I was less experienced in reading than, and want to re-read it. The Red and Black has been on my list for long. The pure size is a little bit of a deterrent. Might be that Steinbeck is very American, or his stories are, but I think he is more accessible than for example William Faulkner. I don't like his writing. Ok, I have only read one book and started a second, where I gave up. I loved Of Mice and Men, and I have of course seen the movie of Grapes ... I think today the same problems occur all over the world.

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