10-09-2012, 07:05 PM | #16 |
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Most by Anthony Trollope have happy endings.
Trollope was prolific and tended to write long novels. Shorter possibilities, not part of a series, are Rachael Ray and Dr. Wortle's School. His most popular nowadays may be Barchester Towers, the second in a series that begins with a shorter one, The Warden. Trollope's subject is men and women, especially as they are together -- seemingly an appropriate subject for you and your boyfriend to discuss P.S. I agree with your boyfriend about Jane Austen. Last edited by SteveEisenberg; 10-09-2012 at 07:21 PM. |
10-09-2012, 07:20 PM | #17 |
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If you like plays you could try reading comedies from Plautus.
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10-09-2012, 07:33 PM | #18 |
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Free, public domain, oldie/goodie. The book is about 25% different from the movie. |
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the Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - so many stories in the one, and a page turner IMO. I haven't got to the ending yet (it goes on forever) but I'm sure it will be a good one.
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10-09-2012, 11:34 PM | #21 |
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What about Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes books? Mr Manou I truly enjoyed them, I also admired his wonderful use of the English language.
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10-10-2012, 12:44 AM | #22 |
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I am so excited by all of these suggestions. I have never read anything by Trollope so I am off to investigate his works.
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10-10-2012, 10:31 AM | #23 |
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10-10-2012, 10:41 AM | #24 |
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I'll second anything by Alexandre Dumas. Three musketeers and Count of Monte Cristo are (I'm biased here) my favourite stories.
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10-10-2012, 10:48 AM | #25 |
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Thanks for the re-radar. I just zapped that one (Count of Monte Cristo) onto my Kindle. High priority on my personal TBR list. (Husband and I are reading "The Pirate Cinema" together for our night reads so I can tweet to @doctorow about my reaction to it).
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Don't forget Rudyard Kipling. Kim, Captains Courageous, and The Jungle Books are all good.
Also The Swiss Family Robinson by Johan Wyss, The Scarlet Pimpernel by Countess Orczy, and The Prisoner of Zenda. And I think Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books are in the Mobileread library. |
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10-11-2012, 03:15 AM | #28 |
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I secondCaptains Courageous and The Scarlet Pimpernel!
For a laugh, there's Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary. It's not a novel, but it is amusing and witty. Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days might do, too. |
10-11-2012, 10:58 AM | #29 |
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I loved Journey to the Center of the Earth. Around the World in Eighty Days is in our TBR pile! I downloaded it to our nooks a few weeks ago.
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10-11-2012, 06:19 PM | #30 |
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It seems to me that the list is pretty short, considering how many classics there are. I'm sure that books with happy endings were being written back then, but few remain as classics. That has to say something about us.
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