|
I "read" Of Mice and Men at school, too. I didn't get much out of it, and don't really consider it read. It might even be ruined for me.
I think I later read Grapes of Wrath and loved it, but I'm really not very sure about that. I can't seem to find any evidence that it's true.
There are quite a lot of books - especially children's classics, like Treasure Island - which I'm not at all sure I've read. I've absorbed the story from other sources - movies (sometimes involving Muppets), plays, hearsay - and I just can't be sure whether I've actually read the source material.
I have absolutely no idea what HG Wells I've read. I know I've read two sequels-by-other-hands(1) to The Time Machine, and am planning to read a third(2) in the near future, and I'm pretty sure I've read at least one book featuring a time-traveller meeting HG Wells(3), but I'm not at all certain I've read The Time Machine itself. I think I've read War of the Worlds, but the only thing I am 100% certain of is that I have read the short story "The Country of the Blind".
The only way to be sure would be to read them all again, and I'm not sure I want to. There's too much new stuff waiting that I definitely haven't read.
(1) Morlock Night by KW Jeter, and The Space Machine by Christopher Priest (which also ties in with War of the Worlds)
(2) The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
(3) The Dancers at the End of Time series by Michael Moorcock
|