1) Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
Why? Great musical, super long book
2) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
I've tried reading Dickens, and I start falling asleep.
3) Shogun - James Clavell
Fantastic look at 1600s Japan that was made into a mini-series...but it is over 1000 pages
4) War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Okay, this is a maybe. I recently got introduced to the actual storyline and not my perception of it from the teensy bits I heard. Anyway, I watched the 2016 mini-series and fell in love with it. So, if I feel really adventurous, it will happen, otherwise...not.
5) The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
Watch the 1992 movie. The music is some of the best you will hear in a movie, ever. And Daniel Day-Lewis looks absolutely beautiful here. Trust me.
6) Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Guilty moment...I've only read the kid's version. I loved it, but it isn't high on my list as a "re-read"
7) The Lord of the Rings series - J. R. R. Tolkien
Another maybe. I love the movies, and the lore always sounds fantastic, but I'm so worried that this is going to be a massive slog that I just can't bring myself to do it.
8) A Song of Ice and Fire series - George R. R. Martin
Do I have some problem with guys with double R initials? Nope, but same basic reason as for number 7.
9) Forrest Gump - Winston Groom
Great movie, but I think a lot of its charm comes from it being on screen and with Tom Hanks.
10) The Once and Future King - T. H. White
I'm a huge fan of Arthurian legends, but I'm almost too big of a fan because I am extremely picky about what I think is "accurate" for certain characters. I'm hesitant to read an entire book where I might not like a character's story arc.
If I had managed to get all the way through Les Miserables I don't think I'd be able to reread it. Such a long book!
ReplyDeleteThe storyline is amazing, but jeez is it huge!
DeleteI read A Game of Thrones last year (or maybe the year before) and I totally understand where you're coming from here (and with the LOTR series). There is just so much information in these books! Now, The Hobbit I could probably read over and over again, but it's not as epic as the others.
ReplyDeleteHere is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
I own A Game of Thrones, so I hopefully will read it at some point, but I am also partially hesitant to start it before Martin finishes writing it...
DeleteWar and Peace is very long but very worth it! And even though there are more books, I think the Game of Thrones series is an easier read than LOTR. There's so much drama that they move faster than you think!
ReplyDeleteGreat to know about both! I was surprised at how in love I fell with the story for War and Peace, so hopefully one day!
DeleteI like your twist on the topic. There are a lot of classics that I know from movies and cultural references, but I have no desire to read them. Lord of the Rings is definitely one of those.
ReplyDeleteAj @ Read All The Things!
Me too, absolutely. Some other interesting ones for me (that I have zero interest in reading at this time) are A Passage to India, Dracula, and Gone With the Wind.
ReplyDeleteOne of these days I'm going to have to see what the Forrest Gump book is like.
ReplyDeleteLauren @ Always Me
I've heard it doesn't have the charm of the movie, but if you do pick it up, please let me know!
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