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Originally Posted by JOZAWUN
Everybody should read one book each by Henry James, Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad.
But life is too short to bother with more than one of each.
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^^^ This about a million times ^^^ Headmasters of the "School of Writing Deep Thoughts to Impress the Illiterate Masses." Dickens might not have been as eloquent, but he had a wicked sense of humor.
Speaking of depressing Victorians....
Wuthering Heights is, was, and always will be, 400 pages of boring, whining sociopaths. Thank god for the rest of England they were stuck on the stupid moors and not inflicting their angst on the general populace.
And on the topic of angst infliction,
Catcher in the Rye is one of the most over-rated books of all time. Hated every page of it.
KKJ