I'm cracking through more books at the moment that I would normally do at any other time than when I am on holiday. It probably is the time to raise my game a bit because Lee Child has only written so many Jack Reacher novels and I might regret it if I haven't tried anything more improving. Does anyone have suggestions for their favourite classics of English literature that need to be read before we can start going out again?
Mark Evans ● 1838d8 Comments
I like RD Wingfield Frost books. The Inspector Frost series on tv.Also JK Rowling Cormoran Strike, she writes under a pseuodynm of someone I cant recall having overindulged on home drinking,Do know thers Hastings Rd & Ealing connections though
Peter Yale ● 1835d
Not strictly English literature, but War and Peace is worth the effort.I bought a copy from a discount bookshop in my mid-20s for something to read on a work-related tour of the UK. It was driven by my youthful ego, just to say I had read it but it turned out to be thoroughly enjoyable. Highly recommended, despite the complexity which is mainly due to the huge array of characters.
Andy Hamm ● 1836d
Heard about this offer from a travel blog. Three issues of various publications for £1:https://www.magazineboutique.co.uk/LolaGrove/?id=60191.13421Though you need to sign up for a direct debit and then cancel before the recurring charges kick-in if you don’t want to subscribe at the full rate.
Andy Hamm ● 1837d
Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. Have read it twice. maybe a third read is on the cards soon
Peter Chadburn ● 1837d
A second for Secret History.If you like that you will probably also like The Magus by John Fowles and The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. (Don't be put off by the recent dull TV adaptation).
Andy Jones ● 1837d
In the English, however American, I would suggest:To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee,and something much more modern, however equally insightful into the American psyche,The Secret History, by Donna Tartt
Mark Julian Raymond ● 1838d
Another book may be, H G Wells the Invisible Man. Not to everybodys taste H Pinter, The Birthday Party. Its quite demanding to read plays for me. Perhaps I get drawn in and absorbed by them too much but Pinter jumps out and connects.
Nicholas Beard ● 1838d
Not a great work of English Literature but a book I often read is John Betjemans poems. Also the Kings England, Middlesex volume.