Wednesday, October 31, 2007

For the record, I liked George Elliot's Middlemarch

It's fall fiction week at Slate. Today's dispatch is all about contemporary writers spilling the beans about what great classics they haven't read. I know we did a post like this before, but it was interesting to see what other writers (like ourselves) keep meaning to make the time for.

3 comments:

jack said...

Margaret Atwood can't come up with anything embarrassing?

Awesome.

cdee said...

I have never finished reading Anna Karenina. I keep trying. This is the really awful part--I always make it through the first 50 pages, not because I respect it, but because it makes me laugh so much.

wabby said...

I haven't ever tried Moby Dick.

I've never read the Illiad. I don't really remember much of the Odyssey.

I haven't ever finished Madam Bovary.

I'm rusty on old shakespeare.

I've read faulkner, but not as I lay dying.

I've got to get cracking!