This year I've made a couple of New Years resolutions. One of them is to read more of the classics. The book Beowulf on the Beach by Jack Murnighan looks at the 50 greatest hits of classic literature. For each of the books discussed the book has a kind of cheat sheet with these topics: The Buzz, What People Don't Know(but should), Best Line, What's sexy, Quirky Fact and What to Skip.
The book starts with The Iliad by Homer. So tomorrow I am off to the library to check this one out. I only plan on reading one classic a month. I am a fan of fluff novels and need time for those. So please leave you comment below and let me know which of the classics listed you think I should read.
In case you were wondering the other classic books discussed are as follows.
- The Odyssey
- The Old Testament
- The New Testament
- The Aenid
- Metamorphoses
- Beowulf
- Inferno
- Paradiso
- The Decameron
- The Canterbury Tales
- The Faerie Queene
- Hamlet
- King Lear
- Macbeth
- Don Quixote
- Paradise Lost
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- Pride and Prejudice
- Faust 1 +2
- Eugene Onegin
- Pere Goriot
- Jane Eyre
- Wuthering Heights
- Moby Dick
- Bleak House
- Great Expectations
- Madame Bovary
- Crime and Punishment
- The Brothers Karamazov
- War and Peace
- Anna Karenina
- Middlemarch
- The Wings of the Dove
- Remembrance of Things Past
- Ulysses
- The Magic Mountain
- The Trail
- To the Lighthouse
- The Sound and the Fury
- A Farewell to Arms
- Tropic of Cancer
- Native Son
- The Man Without Qualities
- Lolita
- Giovannis Room
- One Hundred years of Solitude
- Gravity's Rainbow
- Blood Meridian
- Beloved
