david copperfield is fantastic! On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm going to sharply bring down the level of the books being referred to, > and say that, out of sync with my high school- and college-mates, I could > never go more than a few pages of those Mills and Boons and Hermina Black > type of novels. These are the staple diet of generations of young women, so > I wonder what's wrong with my genetic makeup....because what I read at that > time were the Biggles books! > > I resisted reading "Gone With the Wind" just *because* it was A Book That > Everyone Must Read. And when I did, I enjoyed most of it, but the long > descriptions...I skipped lightly over them, I am afraid. > > I also resisted reading "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" for the > same reason and I could not finish them as I just did not like them. ...and > though I really enjoyed "David Copperfield", I wonder if I would have got > through all those pages...and characters.... if I'd not had it as part of > my undergraduate syllabus...that much-maligned "non-detailed text". > > > Deepa. >
