What books, if any are you reading, or have you read in the past year

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subllibrm said:
I'm slogging through the second Shelby Foote volume on the civil war. Currently ramping up for the siege of Vicksburg. The narrative history method is an interesting literary device.

The list of started but never finished books is way too long.
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I read all 3 in 2 years. Fantastic.
 
I'm reading "The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God" By Carson, 1772045795308.png

Happiness: cLASSICAL AND COMTEMPORARY READINGS

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DrHuk&Duck said:
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I'll get there in a few months or a year. I've got about a year's worth of books listed that I want to read, and it includes selections not only from Faulkner, but Hemingway and Steinbeck as well as more commercial stuff like Tom Clancy and Patrick O'Brian. And when I read through an author's works, I like to do it in chronological order.
 
OK, here's a question for readers:

Despite an English degree, of Charles Dickens, I've only read A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, and Bleak House.

I have a "2026 reading challenge" on my list this year from G3 Ministries that includes a Dickens novel. These are the ones that are most broadly considered his greatest novels:

  • Great Expectations
  • David Copperfield
  • A Tale of Two Cities

Which one should I make a point of reading first, and why? (I'll get to all of them, eventually.)
 
I recommend "Barnaby Rudge." It is a terrifying tale by Dickens about the Lord Gordon riots in London in 1780. This would be good cautionary reading for anyone who is inclined to support, or make excuses for, any sort of left-wing or right-wing rioting or insurrections nowadays (Black Lives Matter/George Floyd, Antifa, anti-ICE, Proud Boys, January 6 Capitol riots, whatever).
 
Ransom said:
  • Great Expectations
  • David Copperfield
  • A Tale of Two Cities

Which one should I make a point of reading first, and why? (I'll get to all of them, eventually.)
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Of the three, I only recall reading A Tale of Two Cities, so I’d have to vote for it. All three are highly acclaimed, so I guess I should read them as well.
 
Ransom said:
OK, here's a question for readers:

Despite an English degree, of Charles Dickens, I've only read A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, and Bleak House.

I have a "2026 reading challenge" on my list this year from G3 Ministries that includes a Dickens novel. These are the ones that are most broadly considered his greatest novels:

  • Great Expectations
  • David Copperfield
  • A Tale of Two Cities

Which one should I make a point of reading first, and why? (I'll get to all of them, eventually.)
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Frasier started with A Tale of Two Cities


 
Ransom said:
OK, here's a question for readers:

Despite an English degree, of Charles Dickens, I've only read A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, and Bleak House.

I have a "2026 reading challenge" on my list this year from G3 Ministries that includes a Dickens novel. These are the ones that are most broadly considered his greatest novels:

  • Great Expectations
  • David Copperfield
  • A Tale of Two Cities

Which one should I make a point of reading first, and why? (I'll get to all of them, eventually.)
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A tale of two cities. I'veread them all and that one is, IMHO the best.
 
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