"Everything by Shakespeare"? Does that include 'Cardenio'? :-)

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Only the part of me which is Sarah Goode-Evans has read that. (And if you have no idea what I'm talking about, it's in the Nextarillion...)

Incidentally, do I correctly deduce that you and I are approximately the same age? I shall be 39 next month.



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Sarah _
Yes, we are approximately the same age as each other, at least for a given value of approximately... Does +(about 10%) count by by your reckoning? I can currently (until slightly further through this very month, anyway) respond to questions about my age by asking people _ especially people whom I already have reason to suspect are likely to remember 'The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy' _ whether they know "the Answer, the Ultimate Answer, to Life, the Universe and Everything"... Why do you ask?

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Because you did O-level English Lit rather than GCSE, and it was a fair bet that if you did "Jane Eyre" you either took the exam in the same year as I did or four years earlier. If you were much older, you probably wouldn't be spending so much time on the Internet right now. ;-)

Perhaps you and Jon and I should officially get together and form a group called something like the Senior Nextians? Or, to resurrect a splendidly terrible pun of Jon's, the Fforde Prefects?



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Am I the only other person who has read 'Three Men On The Bummel' ?
There's several books on Sarah's list I've read but I can't be bothered to list them at this time of night. (Should have bee in bed hours ago, but too thrilled at being on internet and fforum again).

Anyone else read:

Don Quixote
Roderick Hudson (Henry James)

I did 'Jane Eyre' for my O level in 1983. I turned 36 in Feb, which means I did it three years after Sarah. But then we probably had different exam boards. I think mine was Cambridge.

new here ... everyone can have a point from me for every hemingway novel they've managed to get through, because i've never managed to get through any, although have started several. i'll take points for russian novelists, though [aside: sarah, crime and punishment rocks, but bros. karamazov may be even better] ....

Welcome to the Fforum, Moonshine...

I will stick up a list of books what I've read, when I get really bored.



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"Yes" to 'Don Quixote', "No" to any books by Henry James (who presumably wasn't the trumpeter of that name?). I'd like to read 'Three Men on a Bummel' but have never found a copy of this.

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Re the deduction: I see....
Re "Fforde Prefects": As long as there's no heavy lifting required....

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Found my copy of "Three Men On the Bummel" as one of those @#$%& reprints in a remainder book shop.

Anyone who likes "Three Men In A Boat" should read "To Say Nothing Of The Dog", by Connie Williams. Actually I think most of Jasper's fans would like her work. TSNOTD is a funny, brilliantly arranged time travel comedy with lots of literary references. UK readers best to look for it on Amazon.

Read 3MotB. And TSNotD (which is by Connie Willis, btw). Good.



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I have read "Don Quixote", now I think of it. I don't think I liked it very much at the time. Oh well...



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There was a brilliant spoof of it in 'Dangermouse'...

Yes, i really do operate at that intellectual level...



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Hey, no need to be ashamed, "Dangermouse" was brilliant! And incidentally, I have a friend called Kevin who looks just like Penfold. :-)



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The spoof had 'Don Coyote' tilting at a windmill that Greenback was using to suck up all the vegetables in La Mancha with. The escape plan was to sail off by using the sails as a gryocopter-type thingummy, but it came to grief when Stiletto shot them off. And it then turned out to be a dream.



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ah, now russian novelists I can do. Russian literature 'A' level would help there. Gogol was my favourite (the government inspector), followed closely by Pushkin's Queen of Spades. Don't get me started on Chekov though. Had a stand-up row with my Russian teacher about how crap The Three Sisters was. Turns out it was her favourite play ever. I just disliked it intensely.

She took that to mean I was thick. Then I did a blindingly good essay on the Queen of Spades, and she was forced to concede that I did have a brain... Ha.

You managed to write a whole essay on the Queen of Spades? Even my essays weren't that brief! Or do you have very small writing?



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surely if my writing were very small, the essay would be even longer? ;-)

Well, I reckon that with my handwriting I could probably get about 120 words on the card, possibly a little more. That's using both sides. Why didn't you use the Ace though - there's more white space to write in then.



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