What books are you into?

[A Cousin]

(01-10-2010 03:04 PM)Obsession Wrote:  Jane Austin - just read Persuasion in a day. Am now looking for a copy that BBC did staring Rupert Penry-Jones in it.

This is one of my favorite books. Certainly my favorite Jane Austen. I prefer the Amanda Root/Ciaran Hinds adaptation from the mid-90's. RPJ is lovely but the writing didn't do the role justice therefore RPJ is shamefully under-used. Just IMO.

I used to read a lot of classics. Besides JA, favorites are The Count of Monte Cristo, Moby Dick, North & South, Vanity Fair, Silas Marner, Middlemarch, Little Women, Nicholas Nickleby is my favorite Dickens closely followed by Bleak House and we own three, count 'em, three volumes of annotated Shakespeare plays.

And then there is my guilty penchant for utterly mindless historical/fantasy family saga fiction. The last I read was The Cloudmage series. I am working through Diana Gabaldon's Outlander Series at the moment.