I draw pretty!

[butterflydreaming]

If anyone is interested in taking me up on this, I think the results could be funny. C'mon, it'll be awful.

1. Comment here and I'll pick one of your LJ interests and draw a picture using the mighty MS Paint.
2. You have no say in what I draw for you, or in how bad it will be!
3. Put this in your journal along with the pictures people drew for you.

If you want, I can even make it icon sized.

Obligatory visit/meal with family today, conversation included discussion of the movies Catwoman and Memoirs of a Geisha, which led to Sayonara and The Hawaiians. My brother wanted anchovies on the pizza, and oddly enough, I had the same inclination.

After Full Dark House, I have The Count of Monte Cristo. No, really -- I haven't read it before. Like Robinson Crusoe, it's one that I simply haven't read. I am trying to put together a list of necessary-to-have-read books. Dumas, Defoe... if I do it alphabetically, I can avoid Tolstoy for a while.

Suggest one? I'll tell you if I've read it.

Comments

[mimerki.livejournal.com]

You can cheat and read The Death of Ivan Ilych by Tolstoy. It's short(er) and quite good. (I don't know if online books are your thing, they aren't mine, but it's available here (http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.1/bookid.295/).)

You can draw for me, if you want.

[elihice.livejournal.com]

*commenting*

The Miserables. Crime and Punishment. Most Dickens. Don Quijote. Wilde's play are entertaining. Usually books are classics for a reason...even if I hated Proust's "In search of lost time"

[stormflare.livejournal.com]

you know? this sounds fun...

and, considering this is my first comment, I feel a bit like I'm exploiting the offer, but whatever.

[boldfeather.livejournal.com]

I love the Count of Monte Cristo!

It is best read in a darkened room, wrapped in a soft but heavy blanket, with a lamp.

[adventurat.livejournal.com]

Me, please? Yay! And, icon size would be lovely. :-)

Seconding the rec for Pride and Prejudice. And after that, Persuasion, also by Austen.

[the-monkey-king.livejournal.com]

How can I resist the talented drawingness?

Just saw the Count of Monte Cristo done as anime last night. Surprisingly good.

Suggest one. Hmmmmm, Dracula?

How did this comment become "A Reading List of Feisty Women in English Literature"?

[joyful-storm.livejournal.com]

I'd like a picture :) Make it any size you want - I can make it an icon later if that isn't the way you go.

I recommend Jane Eyre, one of my favorites that you probably have hit (but if you haven't, you should), and Vanity Fair, one that most people haven't. I FAR prefer Thackeray to Dickens so far as novels originally published in episodic format. Such a deliciously vicious satirical wit.

Please don't let your Defoe reading stop at Robinson Crusoe, do not pass go or collect $200 before reading Moll Flanders. Guy deserted on island, yes a classic, but feisty women need to read Moll Flanders. Well, ok, Jane and Becky are significantly feisty too.

I intend to read Anna Karenina someday - I took it out of the library once and got totally bogged down and stalled in the academic introduction, before I learned never to read them before reading the book itself (damn you, you stupid editors of Pride and Prejudice that let the introduction writer give away the plot before I even got past the pages with roman numerals!). Consequently I do not know if Anna is feisty or not.

I only intended to recommend a couple, so I'll stop now. I will add, however, that I feel it is a grevious error to allow someone (such as myself) to attain an English literature degree without forcing her to read Milton. I don't feel any real urge to pick up Milton (other than to deepen my understandings of the references Neil Gaiman makes in The Sandman oeuvre, sad creature that I am), but I sincerely believe that I ought to have been compelled to read some in order to get my stripes.

[varina8.livejournal.com]

Definitely Anna Karenina. Also Cheri and The Last of Cheri by Colette, and 100 Years of Solitude. Oh, and The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night.

Someone mentioned Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I'd second that and recommend the short story The Dead, which I loved. In keeping with my weakness for short stories, I'd also suggest sampling some Kipling (yes, colonial, etc but great for capture the period), Poe, Isak Dinesen and even Hemingway.

[ghostly-watcher.livejournal.com]

*comment*
Memiors of a Geisha was such a good movie. Have you also read the book?

And I third the Austen recommendation. Anything by Jane Austen is worth reading, as well as The Great Gatsby. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is good too.

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

Count me in for the meme! :)

Most of the books I can think of were mentioned already. But I have to second Don Quixote, because it's one of the few classics that are actually funny.

[spazzychic.livejournal.com]

I somehow missed the memeboat. sigh.