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So, I feel like a failure because I did not even open One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. :( I will read it soon. Now, I will be honest with y'all - Great Expectations has always intimidated me. I know NOTHING about the storyline and it is a pretty big book. Is anyone else going into this read blind?

Catherine,

I saw the modern screenplay adaptation of this book in the 1990s with Gwyneth Paltrow and Ethan Hawke, so I guess that I am not going into this completely blind. I am not yet far into the book. I am simultaneously reading David Copperfied. I would recommend not to give up on Dickens if for some reason you find that Great Expectations is not for you. David Copperfield seems much more readable to me so far.

I can't find myself to give up on Dickens. He is too much of a household name in the book industry. There MUST be something to it, and I will find it. LOL, I am going to watch the movie afterwards. I am always a little nervous going completely blind into a book. Usually, you read something that interests you or someone recommends - which still invovles knowing a little background.

Catherine,

I am sure you will find what there is to Dickens. For some reason a lot of people don't seem to like Great Expectations. I remember there was a big fuss when Oprah recommended Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities for her book club and she eventually admitted to have not having read the books and I think she eventually retracted them. I didn't think Dickens was treated very well by her. LOL. Well even if you love Great Expectations, I still recommend David Copperfield.

I remember reading an excerpt in a high school text book but other than a crazy shut in old lady and a kid named Pip I can't tell you a thing about it.

Amanda,

Have you finished reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest yet? If you have, what did you think? I am so happy that you picked that book because I probably wouldn't have re-read the book for the foreseeable future. I thoroughly enjoyed it despite some pretty strong criticisms of the book.

I have been watching a DVD of the BBC film, Sense and Sensibility, and on that DVD there is a preview to the movie Bleakhouse starring Gillian Anderson. This is another Dickens book that I have been dying to read. Hopefully I will find time in 2013.

I did finish it I really enjoyed it.

I am really busy. I don't know if I am going to finsih this book in time :(

Is anyone going to be annoyed with me if I don't manage to finish this book until some time in December? I feel so much pressure because I picked the book and because there are only four of us who seem to be actively participating.

heck no! I didn't finish or start cuckoo's nest. We can still discuss it in threads silly. :)

Don't worry about it I barely did with cuckoos nest and I don't know if I am going to finish this one "on time" either.

Thank you all. I was starting to feel really guilty.

I totally understand Jennifer I felt the same way with Cuckoo's Nest. I have a feeling these next 3 months will probably be the worst for getting through the list books because the end of the year always gets so busy.

so I have been absent lately. I apologize. I have to admit that I started this book and read maybe 5 pages and then haven't opened it since. Honestly though I have to say I have not finished reading one book this month and I am usually reading 6 or 7 books a month. I seriously doubt I will even finish this before december so I think I will go ahead and start on Hound of baskervilles and knock it out and then start on this one. maybe read in between books until I finish it and One Flew Over the Cuckoos nest. I am committed to doing this and I will!

Kristyn wrote: "so I have been absent lately. I apologize. I have to admit that I started this book and read maybe 5 pages and then haven't opened it since. Honestly though I have to say I have not finished readi..."

Well I am guiltier than you because I have been reading other books but not this one. It's a weird time of year and the threads will remain for people to comment on when they eventually get to the book.

Jennifer wrote: "am not yet far into the book. I am simultaneously reading David Copperfied. I would recommend not to give up on Dickens if for some reason you find that Great Expectations is not for you. David Copperfield seems much more readable to me so far. ..."

I want to re-read David Copperfield. This month you have featured the book THE CATCHER IN THE RYE. On the first paragraph he says he is not going to write a David Copperfield kind of book. If you read the first page of David Copperfield you will find one of the compound words in the protagonist name of the Catcher in The Rye. "CAUL". The protagonist in The Catcher is named Holden Caulfield.

I want to reread David Copperfield because I think WINDOWS are a symbol that is used in there and I want to see how it might relate to The Catcher.

To me the Catcher is Salinger's take on WAR. He uses movies(or stars popular or first movie), literature and books and popular music of the day.

I just got through reading The Return Of The Native because it was mentioned in the book. I wrote a post on it in my discussion group called /topic/show/...

Maybe some of you have read that book?

Holden says he likes Eustacia Vye, but she was not a someone to really like. She was a drama queen. So I wanted to reread that book and see what that says about Holden.


Most of the time The Catcher is described as a teenage angst type of book. But after reading it I think it is an allegory.

I hope some of you will want to read that this month! And discuss it.

I was planning on catching up with Catcher in the Rye, but after reading your comment I think I want to read David copperfield first.