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S HALL's avatar

Thoroughly enjoy your recaps. Dickens would be Great.🙂

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Alex Marden's avatar

Could be called Moby Dickens Season...

Just saying.

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Jeremy Keim's avatar

I think you should let this live on like Dracula Daily did. And do a new book, too, so long as you bring back your recaps!

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Nate Horning's avatar

Would love to read Tolstoy like this!

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Jeremy Keim's avatar

I second that!

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RobS's avatar

Would definitely third it! The recaps are great and the serialization fits into a busy schedule perfectly. To that end, I'd also be happy with Dickens, any Dickens, but David Copperfield for choice (as I haven't read that one) would be great. We know it's true with Dickens, and I'm guessing also true with lots of the classics that they were written and published as serials/soaps for publication in weekly magazines. So any of them would probably lend themselves to the format - many short short chapters, memorable characters, cliffhangers galore etc. Amazing how we humans turn the technology to how we want to hear the stories.

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Carly H.'s avatar

I’d be curious about Tolstoy or Middlemarch more, but I’d go along for the ride or Dickens if that’s where we landed.

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Andrew Paul Koole's avatar

I've got an idea for the next book: Don Quixote! Never read it. Thought to for a long time but never got around to it. Or it could be fun to just start Moby Dick again next summer.

Here's hoping you find the right book and go for round two. I'd also be curious to hear from you on other topics too, as long as it keeps arriving in my inbox. Keep going! Please don't leave us! We're so lonely!

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Alex Marden's avatar

I'd be interested in Dickens or Tolstoy! Out of curiosity, why David Copperfield as opposed to any of Dickens' other works?

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Kristen Felicetti's avatar

David Copperfield's summary just sounds the most interesting to me -- it's a first-person bildungsroman, about the protagonist's journey from difficult childhood to being a successful novelist. My type of story, lol. It's also known to be Dickens most autobiographical novel and his own favorite.

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Jacob MacDonald's avatar

My impulse was instantly that we should move on to a new book, but as fun and perfectly paced as Moby-Dick has been, I don't think I can deny future readers the pleasure! Still, would love a similar project, especially for those Russian novels. As for my own classics TBR-and-on-my-shelves list, I've got:

* Finnegans Wake, which I'm moving slowly through and would be super fun to do as a group.

* Pride and Prejudice

* The Picture of Dorian Gray

* Mumbo Jumbo

* The Master and Margarita

* Don Quixote

* For Whom the Bell Tolls

* Confederacy of Dunces

* Tristam Shandy

* The Canterbury Tales

(I'm realizing how easy this is thanks to how poorly-read I am so far!)

It might also be fun to do a huge poem, like Melville's Clarel.

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