The Classics Book Tag | 2020 Edition

Five years after I first recorded this tag, I decided to revisit it. Please don't go searching for the original video, for I have now removed it.

The prompts:
1) An overhyped classic you really didn’t like
2) Favourite time period to read about
3) Favourite fairy-tale
4) What classic do you feel most embarrassed about not having read yet
5) Top 5 classics you would like to read (soon)
6) Favourite modern book/series based on a classic
7) Favourite movie version/tv-series based on a classic
8) Worst classic to movie adaptation
9) Favourite edition(s) you’d like to collect more classics from
10) An underhyped classic you’d recommend to everyone

Books Mentioned:

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Warden by Anthony Trollope
Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

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About Me:
I was born in Macclesfield and very rarely leave. I mainly discuss books on this channel but every now and then something else will slip through the net. I'm interested in most fiction, and enjoy books that tell stories about older characters as I feel they're often under represented in literature. Lately, I've become interesting in telling and discovering working class tales.
I have a BA in Creative Writing and have been the secretary to the Macclesfield Creative Writing Group since 2011. In 2015 I independently published my first book Our Doris. The book follows the eponymous Mrs Doris Copeland, atomic housewife, with a rock bun recipe that can make even the most secure dentures shudder. There are two sequels, Indisputably Doris and Doris Ahoy.
In 2020 I released An Heir to Murder, the first in a cosy crime series featuring Alice Valentine.

[novellenovels]

Love this and sooo with you on muppets Christmas carol it’s the best and I will always love that. Yet again as soon as the prompt about a popular classic you don’t like appeared I know knew what you would say 😂😂

[mame-musing]

You are so right, a book can’t be embarrassed.

[GaggingLit]

read Wuthering Heights when I was 16 after I'd read Pride and Prej - and adored it. Have read it several times again since and love it. I don't think you should worry too much about liking it, if you don't get on with it. Sounds you've given it more than enough of your time! I think I like it because I found the narrative structure fascinating compared to what most novels are like, and I enjoyed reading about all these horrible characters and how the family was so f***ed up. And I found the dynamics between all of the relationships so intriguing, but if you didn't like it - that's fine lol. Hope you enjoy Jane Eyre!! Jane Eyre is my fave out of the Bronte books, probs. Cute doing another version of this video. Congrats on the weight loss, if that makes you happy xoxo

[naomisbookshelf]

I enjoyed the first half of Wuthering Heights but hated it after the continued cycle of abuse and oppression. I don’t know if I would reread it again for that reason.

[OliviasCatastrophe]

I have read wuthering heights once and I absolutely hated it!! I am currently reading Anna Karenina at the moment :) I don't feel embarrased by not having read anything either. I have read Bleak House! I thought the second half was really good. And I really want to read north and south at some point as well. I LOVE a muppets christmas carol. BEST adaptation of it as well. I love the penguin english library editions as well. I am starting to collect them!

[danecobain]

If your favourite period is post-WWII, doesn't that rule out most classics? :D His Dark Materials is a retelling ish of Paradise Lost so that would be my answer for that :D

[ameliareads]

Wuthering Heights is not for me as well! I love terrible characters in a novel, but all these horrible people have just been too much. And I have no idea why people say, that this is a love story.