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Old 07-02-2011, 10:19 AM   #91
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The Survivors of the "Jonathan" by Jules Verne

I really like that story and how the stranded survivors manage their lifes and the how the whole group evolves.
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Old 07-02-2011, 10:30 AM   #92
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The Survivors of the "Jonathan" by Jules Verne

I really like that story and how the stranded survivors manage their lifes and the how the whole group evolves.
The interesting thing about Verne is that the overwhelming majority of his books were what you might call "travelogues" - people having adventures in exotic locations. Today we remember him primarily as a science fiction author, but really his science fiction stories were nothing more than an extension of the travel idea, set in even more exotic locations, such as submarines and moon rockets.
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I tried 20 Years Later, but it didn't draw me in. Probably due to translation issues. I knew there were three books, but I was not aware of the others you mentioned. Maybe I'll look them up again, but I have a very problematic TBR pile right now as it is.
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Old 07-03-2011, 04:20 PM   #94
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The Survivors of the "Jonathan" by Jules Verne

I really like that story and how the stranded survivors manage their lifes and the how the whole group evolves.
Interesting. I don't think I've ever heard of it, but it does sound like quite the story.
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Old 07-04-2011, 06:09 PM   #95
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Interesting. I don't think I've ever heard of it, but it does sound like quite the story.
Oh, cool, you checked it.
Yes, it does not seem to be one of his popular works, but I don't know why, I can just say for myself I had a great time reading The Survivors of the "Jonathan".

If someone of you is going to read this book, please write me a message, I would really be interested to know what you think of it.
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Pride and Prejudice, hands down.
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Pride and Prejudice, hands down.
My favorite Jane Austen novel! It is also and high on my list of "classics I've re-read far too many times already".
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But why only read "The Three Musketeers"? It's only a small part of the much, MUCH larger "D'Artagnan Romances", the whole of which you'll find here at MR.
Link...? I'm all impatient to read the whole series now!

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Never mind, found them! Many thanks and lots of karma for these tonight when I am back home to download them.
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Old 07-05-2011, 06:10 PM   #99
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My favorite Jane Austen novel! It is also and high on my list of "classics I've re-read far too many times already".
Speaking of Austen, has anyone tried any of the various Austen mash-ups? Pride and Prejudice and Zombies... totally weirds me out, and I'm scared to even start reading it. On the other hand, there's a kind of morbid allure there...
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I'm another who has read 'Pride and Prejudice' several times and even have a collection of the TV and Movies made over the years. I also loved TALE of TWO CITIES, JANE EYRE, TARZAN, many LOVECRAFT short stories, WUTHERING HEIGHTS (which is very different from the movie adaptations). Write in Amazon search under books: public domain and you get many interesting books with excerpts and reviews.
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Old 07-18-2011, 04:01 PM   #101
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Speaking of Austen, has anyone tried any of the various Austen mash-ups? Pride and Prejudice and Zombies... totally weirds me out, and I'm scared to even start reading it. On the other hand, there's a kind of morbid allure there...
Not a mash-up, but I just finished My Jane Austen Summer: A Season in Mansfield Park by Cindy Jones and Mansfield Park. There were enough parallels that the two books read well together and enough differences to keep both interesting. But no zombies, alas.
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Old 07-26-2011, 10:17 PM   #102
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Can't limit it to one because I can't figure out which ones I would need to drop, but all time? maybe

Light in August, Faulkner, Bleakhouse, Dickens, L' Assommoir, Zola

Also very found of Trollope, Steinbeck and Doestoyevsky among others. Oh yeah, Dumas and Willa Cather ... ok, I'll stop now.

PS: Jose Saramago
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The Survivors of the "Jonathan" by Jules Verne

I really like that story and how the stranded survivors manage their lifes and the how the whole group evolves.
I have never read any Verne but was never really interested in 20,000 Leagues.

However, this book looks very interesting, as I mentioned earlier in the thread that one of my favourite classics is "Robinson Crusoe". I love good "stranded on an island" type stories.

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The interesting thing about Verne is that the overwhelming majority of his books were what you might call "travelogues" - people having adventures in exotic locations.
This makes me even more interested, at least in his non-sci-fi stuff.
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One's tastes change over time, but at the moment my favourite novelist is Jane Austen and my favourite novel is Persuasion. I think it's her masterpiece and has a delicacy combined with a satiric edge and autumnal quality that I don't think exists in any other work.

An utterly beautiful work.
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Pride and Prejudice, with Persuasion a close second.

Honourable Mentions
Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady Windermere's Fan
William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing
Baroness Orczy - The Scarlet Pimpernel
Agatha Christie - The Secret Adversary (only her first two are PD)
Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes
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