I've been looking at getting into books I don't ordinarily read this year. This means finding books which are known as classics or hard-to-find or unusual reads. One of those authors are Leo Tolstoy. I've always been fascinated by him, but due to the length of his books, I've never really had the courage to pick up his works and get into them. So, this year, seeing I can find free books on iTunes, I thought to download bigger books onto my iPod and read them as time goes by.
I've got other books on my iPod which are pretty big. There's Charles Darwin's famous book 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection' and then I also have 'Dream Psychology' by Symund Freud on there too. These books are large and I wouldn't want to be lugging them around if they were actually a part of my collection here at home. So, I downloaded them.
This has gotten me thinking: do you have any authors you'd love to read but feel intimidated by them because of the types of work they write, or the size of their books they've published? Seeing I'm reading a monster of a book - which may take over a year to read, so I'll be reading other books as well as this one - who is your whale in the literary world? Until my next post, happy reading!
I've got other books on my iPod which are pretty big. There's Charles Darwin's famous book 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection' and then I also have 'Dream Psychology' by Symund Freud on there too. These books are large and I wouldn't want to be lugging them around if they were actually a part of my collection here at home. So, I downloaded them.
This has gotten me thinking: do you have any authors you'd love to read but feel intimidated by them because of the types of work they write, or the size of their books they've published? Seeing I'm reading a monster of a book - which may take over a year to read, so I'll be reading other books as well as this one - who is your whale in the literary world? Until my next post, happy reading!
I definitely get intimidated by some of the bigger books. Having recently read Les Mis though I am pretty sure I can manage War and Peace - once I get started on it that is!
ReplyDeleteI have read some huge books in recent years, but none on my TBR at present. I've read Anna Karenina, Les Miserables, and Bleak House, and was glad I did. Once I got into them, I remained interested in the characters, plots, and subplots and that kept me going.
ReplyDeleteI read a sample of Anna Karenina and thought it sounded so wonderful and fresh I wanted to read more! So, I downloaded it to my iPod so I can get into it anywhere and not have a huge tome of a book weighing down my bag. :D
DeleteYep, that's my plan with my iPod: download only tomes I wish to read and read the thinner books as traditional books... sounds like a good plan?
I have Anna Karenina on eBook. I need to read it at some point. I've always wanted to read Anna Karenina, but have been intimated by its length and I'm not sure why as I've read 1000+ page novels before.
ReplyDeleteMaybe if I just start reading Anna Karenina, I'll love it and breeze right through it.
Mozette, let me know if you want to do a read-along of Anna Karenina!! I'd be able to begin reading beginning March 1st if you're keen with this idea?! What do you thing??
I've already read up to chapter 7 of part one on my iPod. This is over 100 pages. And today, I read another 67 pages at the art gallery - my volunteer work - because it was a slow day.
DeleteIf you'd like to catch up, that'd be cool, as next week is a really busy week for me. :D
I may have to skip on the Anna Karenina read along... I just finished playing catch up through yesterday on books I had been reading by actually finishing them.
DeleteThen today, I began reading the free Anna Karenina ebook on my iPad I'd downloaded and it must be a bad translation cause I just couldn't in to the free version after 35 pages. I won't have much time for reading the next 2-3 days, so may be too way behind for much discussion with you. So carry on without me. :-(
Darn... would have been fun too. Oh well. I'm trundling along with it. I'm enjoying all the snow and ice skating and his poor infatuation for a woman. :P
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