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Originally Posted by Spinnenmonat
Walter Scott was a very successful writer in his lifetime, but nowadays, I guess, he is quite neglected, maybe because of his archaic writing style...
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Your nomination reminded me of an event which got me reading some of Walter Scott's novels.
In the early 2000s I was doing a long assignment for a company which one of its senior managers was a Scotsman who, it turned out, was a keen reader. We got talking about books which had him quizzing me about what Robert Louis Stevenson books I had read. The next day he turned up with one of the ones I had not read, and when I returned that to him he produced another until I'd read the lot.
Then, of course, he had Walter Scott in mind for the betterment of my education in Scottish literature and was disgusted when I confessed that the closest I had come to any of them was as Classic Comics when I was a kid. So I had to start on Walter Scott's novels and got through around four or five of the better known ones before the assignment ended and the supply dried up.
I have to say I found some parts of them hard going but did enjoy them even so and have since built up a complete ebook collection and put them on my "to read" list. However, I have only ever got to the "list" bit and not to the "read" bit. It is so long since I read the ones that I did that I have forgotten the stories - your nomination of
The Bride of Lammermoor may just have prompted me to get started on them all again
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