Thanks,will do,i've spent most of my life not being much of reader to be honest,i blame the original 'bog standard' Comprehensives,so i decided last year that i wanted to read all the classics,my eldest bought me The road to wigan pier and 1984 for Christmas,i think he thought i wanted cheering up a bit.I read To kill a mocking bird while on holiday in Australia at the end of last year,any other recommendations would be appreciated.
Ahh the joys of a painful English lesson/Teacher, it was the best part of two decades before I realised that Dickens is a good read.
Steinbeck novels are always very powerful, and an enjoyable read, Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men.
Hemmingway has some very good, nice reads, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and the one where he's based in Italy in WW1, the name escapes me at the moment.
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge and Jude the Obscure. All good enjoyable reads.
A good collection of Jack London’s short stories, and Henry Williamson’s classics (Tarka the Otter, etc) for a nature lover as myself are good/interesting reads
To be honest you can't go too wrong with the classics, although some can seem quite stuffy compared with modern writings.
I'd stay well clear of War and Peace, I've read a third, but rather than a year I'd recommend you dedicate a month to it and do nothing else - it is very intense and it is easy to loose track of the characters, Russian names and all that aren't the easiest, and if you've not picked it up for a week it is murder to try and get back into it.
