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Classic Club Spin

2/3/2014

The Classic Club is doing one of their Classics Spins, this will be my first one. The push is to help me complete books on my Classic Club 50 in 5 list.

Guidelines are easy, post a list of twenty books left to read from your master list, number them from 1-20. On Monday, February 10th a number will be posted. Read the book found on your list for that number by April 2nd.

Being that I have read none from my list yet (I just started) and it was originally ordered by year I stuck the books in a Randomizer and took the first twenty.

Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868)
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776)
Gil Blas by Alain René le Sage (1715)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1776)
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (1845)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890)
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
The History of Tom Jone by Henry Fieldins (1749)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1856)
The Fortune of the Rougons (Les Rougon-Macquart, #1) by Emile Zola (1871)
Vanity Fair by W. M. Thackeray (1847)
Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell (1853)
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni (1825)
Uncle Tom's Cabin by H. B. Stowe (1851)
The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett (1748)
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (1886)
The Odyssey by Homer (~800 BC)

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Tags: Club Spins

13 Comments

Cleo @ Classical Carousel link

2/3/2014 09:06:19 am

Yay! You're joining!

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vanity Fair, Common Sense, & The History of Tom Jones are tough ones, in length if in nothing else. You have lots of fun adventures listed. Will you really read The Odyssey before The Iliad? Not that it matters because the content is completely different.

It's really weird but almost none of the books on my list show up on anyone else's yet. I thought we might at least have one in common.

Well, I can hardly wait to see what I get!

Plethora

2/3/2014 09:17:10 am

I probably should have removed The Odyssey from randomizer. I did remove sequels so but I didn't catch this.

I would prefer Iliad first, but we should be sneaking that in DWS soon. ;)

Well, if 4 comes up I will read Gulliver's Travels with you. Or 18 for The Time Machine on your list. They both fall on my list, but didn't make the 20. Either would be easy reads.

Cleo @ Classical Carousel link

2/3/2014 02:29:54 pm

I just hope whatever I get is short. Oh I live for the day where I have a balanced schedule and it doesn't matter whether the pick is short or long. Ha, ha! Like that's going to happen!

I would love it if you would read those two with me, especially Gulliver's Travels. There are lots of ideas buried in that text and I need someone to help me dig. Also I've heard it's kind of weird, so we can exclaim over its weirdness together. ;-)

Plethora

2/3/2014 10:48:23 pm

Balanced schedule for reads? What, so boring of a thought. ;)

Somewhere I our crazy schedules we will fit in Gulliver's Travels and The Time Machine.

Plethora

2/10/2014 01:09:48 am

Thanks to you bringing it up...guess what, The Odyssey it is. ;)

Guess that since you have read this already you won't be joining in my voyage. ;) Have fun with your mountain.

Charlotte @ Lit Addicted Brit link

2/3/2014 05:01:47 pm

This is my first spin too and I'm so looking forward to finding out what I "have" to read by April.

I have Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe and The Three Musketeers on my spin list too and they're three of the ones that I'd be pretty happy to get.

I read The Moonstone at the end of last year and it's absolutely brilliant. Plus, if number 1 gets picked, that means that I get The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham so that'd be perfect :)

Plethora

2/3/2014 10:43:39 pm

I am partially hoping for one of my shorter reads, just because I am always overbooked. I am not dreading any of the ones you have as well, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe and The Three Musketeers.

I have been wanting to read The Moonstone. I read my first Willie a few years ago with The Woman in White which I really enjoyed. Last year I read The Law and the Lady which was amazing.

Thanks for stopping by, can't wait for Monday's roll.

Karen K. link

2/4/2014 11:22:09 am

Zola! Brilliant! I haven't read Fortunes of the Rougons yet but I've read nearly half the series and loved most of it. I got La Terre for my last Spin pick and I'm hoping to get another Zola, Nana, next time around.

Plethora

2/5/2014 11:29:04 am

I have heard good things about the Les Rougon-Macquart series, plus who doesn't like a little murder, treachery and greed in their Napoleon era novel?

Chris Wolak link

2/5/2014 01:29:59 am

Lots of goodies here! I remember being pleasantly surprised by both Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Scarlet Letter. If you like pop culture Easy A is a fun movie to watch after reading The Scarlet Letter.

Plethora

2/5/2014 11:32:06 am

I read The Scarlet Letter in high school and figure it is time to revisit without the English teacher breathing down my neck. It would fig right in with The Devil in the Shape of a Woman by Carol F Karlsen which I am reading now.