The Classics Book Tag

Let's talk about classics :)

Les questions:
1) An overhyped classic you didn't really like.
2) Favourite time period to read about.
3) Favourite fairy tale.
4) What is the most embarrassing classic you haven't read?
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 would like to collect more classics from.
10) An underhyped classic you'd recommend to everyone.

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[beyondthepages]

The Fitzgerald editions are beautiful. I really want to read Middlemarch, I'm glad  you enjoyed it.

[SarahYomei]

I never read classic and I think I'm going to give it a go! Look up for Word Cloud Classic book editions. It's beautiful and I believe you can easily bring it everywhere when your outside.

[kathyk]

Loved this video!! I'm obsessed with the Kiera Knightley P&P movie (and the book)...I'm actually writing a research paper on it for English class where I compare the book with the movie!

[marlaeningles]

Hello Helene, your videos are so nice and relaxing also. Please make more ! I have read many of your recommendations but still, more videos please. By the way, from your recommendations I read Jane Eyre, yes, I liked it but Shirley has become my very favourite of Charlotte Bronte; it simply felt more natural in the dialogues and the characters were so strong. Helloes from Mexico City !

[КнижныйСыч]

Hi Helene, thank you for such a nice video, even though you don't like Tolstoy!

Let me offer you a new book tag if you please. It's BOOK FOREST Tag.
I made it up myself and used it on my Russian booktube channel. However, I do believe English-speaking booktubers can find it interesting too, although it's pretty challegning
The tag consists of 10 questions:
1. A book beginning in a forest.
2. A book in which a chatacter gets lost in a forest.
3. A book in which a chatacter climbs a tree.
4. A love scene in a forest.
5. Someone running away through a forest and someone persuing him/her.
6. A battle in a forest.
7. A book in which a person fights with a carnivorous animal.
8. A book in which a person is on friendly terms with a forest animal.
9. A book in which someone cut down trees.
10. A book in which the author describes a very specific tree.

I'd be glad if you use this tag in one of your videos.

[go]

I would definitely recommend "North and South" by Gaskell; it was a fantastic read. Gaskell gives many points of view throughout the entire novel, and it is mysterious at times. Happy reading!

[CarolynsReadingRamblings]

The reason that I love the Penguin English Library classics is they are designed by the same woman who designed the Penguin Clothbounds and there are only some subtle differences when she does a design for the same book in each collection (for example- the PEL Middlemarch is also pink but has black cameos I believe instead of white) so they are just as pretty but so much easier to take around with you since they are paperback :)

[Mebeingcool]

Read “War and Peace” again, it is a masterpiece, it is one of the greatest novels ever written, it can make your life better.

[ninakf]

I hope you'll have the time and chance to read North and South soon :) I really liked it :)

[maRRiiH]

I have 4 of the Penguin Library Editions too: A Tale of Two Cities, Vilette, Bleak House and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. All of them beautiful editions and I wanted to tell you that Les Miserables is free on Kindle. At least one edition is. Happy reading :D

[SamsCozyCorner]

I haven;t read Alice in Wonderland yet either! You are alone!
I LOVE the Woman in White! It is so creepy and mysterious and fabulous so I hope you enjoy it!
Ps: Your Cloth Bund shelf is gorgeous! :D

[alibhg]

Great video! I agree about Great Expectations. Can't remember liking it when I read it in high school, but maybe I'd like it more now.

[tinkerspell]

You know, I loved Great Expectations the first time I read it in 9th grade....but after I had read a bunch more, I quickly saw that it was falling farther and farther behind. I also dislike that I have read BOTH endings. I was so confused, and now I just hate that it was published with two different endings.

I'm with you on the time periods - I love Georgian/Regency-Victorian - especially the gothic stuff. I write gothic romances myself. Wilkie Collins and Joseph Sheridan le Fanu are two of my favorites....besides the obvious of the Brontes and Mrs. Radcliffe...

[sanguinedekker]

Can you recommend any classic gothic fiction? I've already read jane eyre, Dracula, frankenstein, p.o dorian gray and carmilla.

[stitchesinpink]

I'm so happy you got and love your new phone!!  You always brighten my day when I receive a notification that you have a new video up!!!  You are my favorite!!  Thank you for all your excellent work!!!

[birgittaXD]

I got les miserables for free on kindle :)

[Madeline]

Jane Austen is Victorian! Amazing books by the way.

[SeriousRereader]

For someone who has trouble getting into classics, what one would you recommend?

[SunriseFireberry]

A lot of people don't read Middlemarch 'cause it's long and 'cause of the density of the prose. If you lined up the toughest 5 19thC novels to read, this book would be on it. There are also sections of this book which are molasses slow, and I expect many other readers would prefer something which moves along quicker, and doesn't use words like obstreperous, recalcitrant, lugubrious, and propitiates. These are English words but c'mon, who uses these $64, 000 words in everyday, every month, every year speech?

[ronjarovardotter]

Completely off-topic question, but are you Swedish?