it's interesting to see so many different reactions to the same books. like florenceart i adored pride and prejudice and laughed through the whole book (to be fair, i read it quite recently, as an adult). i've loved all the austen books i've read so far, and i plan to read all of them. and although i've (still !) not finished it, i'm reading moby dick (intermittently) and loving it (it's another one which is making me laugh quite often so far, and also making me want to write out entire passages of it in my book o'citations). i fully intend to finish it, but that book is LONG. plus, i started it on my telephone before i got a liseuse and that's really not a good medium for that book, it needs a bigger screen so the text can really spread out and get comfortable.
i read part of paradise lost for school and i liked it very well also (although i admit i sympathised far more with satan than any of the other characters. what can i say, i tend to question authority myself.
). and i started don quixote many years ago but stopped partway through ; i was enjoying the book, but i had a "pocket" (ha !) edition which was probably thicker than it was tall, and printed far too small. if only i'd known about ebooks then... (this was probably about 12 years ago or so). i plan try it again, digitally. i also love molière and racine (i read Phèdre just a few years ago and found it riveting).
however... i had to read "La vie de Marianne" by Marivaux for school and i wanted to hurl the damned book against the wall i hated it so much. marianne was the heroine of the book and she was an inane, simpering idiot who was constantly flinging her wrist to her forehead and falling down in a swoon in shock at the cruel games of fate and the sheer overwhelmingness of life in general, and i just wanted to give her a good slap ! arg ! even now just thinking about it i'm irritated. i must have a particularly low tolerance for melodrama (well... and simpering, inane girls whose only characteristic seems to be their "innocent virtue"
). the edition i had contained also "le paysan parvenu" but i would sooner have set myself on fire than try to read that one.
i also started jane eyre recently but didn't get very far, i just found it far too depressing (although i did like the film very much). i might try it again some time.