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"Jane Eyre has never been well adapted" THANK YOU!!! It's my favorite book as well!! I keep hoping for the day that they make a film version where Jane is much more strong-willed but controlled, making her the mirror image of the wife in the attic.
My Antonia. “It wasn’t a country at all but the material from which countries are made “. I remember that line still. Imagine grass ad high as s person. My grandmother had to twist hay for fuel arriving from Germany thrust into a treeless prairie. My Mother always worked the way the Grandparents. Wash on Monday, iron on Tuesday, bake on Wednesday. . . . Understand survival.
Brideshead is one of the most amazing books I’ve ever read; it’s way at the top of my all-time favorite books in any genre. Read Monte Cristo just a couple of years ago and absolutely loved it. It has everything: love, revenge, adventure, page-turning fun...just a great book. Just as an aside, the Olivier/Joan Fontaine adaptation of Rebecca is outstanding.
I am very excited for Brideshead- it seems like it will have most of what I like best in a classic! And YES, 100% on Rebecca... I actually prefer the movie to the book (don't tell anyone! :))
Love my classics! I agree, my favourite classics movie would be Sense and Sensibility. Emma Thompson is SO good - when she finds out that Edward is not married and she makes that little noise, so beautifully acted. She is one of my favourite actresses. I want to buy all the beautiful editions you have - so pretty!
When you mentioned My Antonia, broke my heart 😟 to be fair I'm British so it's probably why I enjoyed it more, I know I find it easier and more enjoyable reading American literature because it's completely different from what we grew up with
Every sentence is beautiful in My Antonia. But the impotence of putting order to chaos was necessary for survival. Burden’s Grandparents had order. Decorum is something we font value anymore. Notice the rhythm in My Antonia. My ancestors were pioneers.
I want to get up close and look at all your bookshelves. :) I agree with you about Call of the Wild, and my 2nd least favorite classic was Catch-22. I rage-read that one to the end and then donated it.
Well, Katie, I do hope you'll give Joseph Heller's "Catch-22" another chance -- or, failing that, to see the excellent film adaptation starring Alan Arkin and directed by Mike Nichols. It's fundamentally an anti-war novel, but quite frequently (and mistakenly) seen as a book that glorifies war.
I’ve never heard anyone else mention Clueless when discussing adaptations, so that kind of made my day 👍🏼😁 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is probably my favorite re-telling. So funny 😊 🧟♀️ Have you read Jane Steele? I guess it’s not a re-telling strictly speaking, but as someone with a Jane Eyre wrist tattoo I adored it ❤️
Hi Mara, thank you for such a nice video! Let me offer you a new book tag if you please. It's BOOK FOREST Tag. I made it up myself and used it on my Russian booktube channel. However, I do believe English-speaking booktubers can find it interesting too, although it's pretty challegning The tag consists of 10 questions: 1. A book beginning in a forest. 2. A book in which a chatacter gets lost in a forest. 3. A book in which a chatacter climbs a tree. 4. A love scene in a forest. 5. Someone running away through a forest and someone persuing him/her. 6. A battle in a forest. 7. A book in which a person fights with a carnivorous animal. 8. A book in which a person is on friendly terms with a forest animal. 9. A book in which someone cut down trees. 10. A book in which the author describes a very specific tree. I'd be glad if you use this tag in one of your videos.
I think if you reread grapes of wrath you would enjoy it. Some adult themes in there but really makes you think. Also the audible version is fantastic all the different accents.
A classic I really love is All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. I also like George Orwell (I read 1984, Animal Farm, Down and Out in Paris and London and Burmese Days). I used to really like Gone with the Wind when I was a teenager, but thinking back I think there are definitely some problematic things in there. Maybe it's time for a re-read haha.
Hello Mara, any time I feel tired i just listen to your videos. You bring so much enthusiasm that I simply love. And yes, you are also witty and funny. I wish that if you haven't read it you could try with THE GOLDFINCH, which I am sure will be a real classic for future generations. At this moment I am reading EMMA. Keep up with your nice and so well-articulated and also fun reviews. My name is Maritza and I write you from Mexico (this strange email is the one I use for parameters in google at work). It just comes by default. THKS :) and please say HELLO MIAUU to the playful kitties.
I discovered Cather this summer with my Antonia and fell in love. I've since then read O Pioneer and loved it to. I'm sure I already told you, but I almost read the entire Steinbeck oeuvre, but I have yet to read Grapes of wrath. Brideshead revisited was a fascinating book for me. There is so many philosophical and religious themes! But to be honest I had a really hard time finishing it, it's a bit slow and dragging.
I wish I loved Cather & Steinbeck -- I'm going to try a couple of shorter Steinbecks to see if I can get into them. And to be fair, I've not yet read East of Eden, which I think is quickly becoming the book that is considered his best
I actually really liked The Call of the Wild when I read it last year, but it was definitely a tough read, so I get not liking. I’m actually about to pick up Grapes of Wrath, so I hope I have a different experience than you with it. YES BEAUTY AND THE BEAST! Very much agree about the BBC Pride & Prejudice, that one rocks! I don’t know if you ever watch or listen to musicals or not, but Jane Eyre was made into a musical in the late 90s. I haven’t been able to find a good bootleg of it, but I think the music for it is phenomenal and really fits the tone of the book.
Dumas is one of the few authors I recommend reading abridged versions for (if you're reading in English). For me, the problem is that the unabridged translations can be super stilted. I recently re-read The Three Musketeers and they kept using the word "furniture" for a horse's saddle. There were many words like that. Perhaps it's bc the original translation used British English. But personally there's only so many times I can see the words "horse's furniture" before I quit reading that version and look for one that makes sense in American English
I have a ton of the Penguin Cloth bound Classics, they're nice but after one reading all the design wears off then they looks like trash. So I still buy the Penguin mass market paperbacks for reading.
I hope you did read "David Copperfield. " Of the five Dickens' novels I have read "Copperfield " is my favorite (re-read it as soon as I finished it). It was also Dickens' own favorite of all his works.
Just watching this now - really enjoyed your answers. I totally agree with you re ‘Call of the Wild’ and ‘My Antonia.’ Re film adaptations - my favorite is the most recent version of ‘Little Women’ with Saoirse Ronan as Jo. While I’ve not seen any of the BBC adaptations, I’ve watched all the Hollywood versions, and IMHO I feel Saoirse was by far the best Jo. The movie did take some liberties with the original story, (and some people did find the non-linear storytelling confusing), but it stayed true to the spirit of the novel and Alcott’s intentions.
Try Henry James, something like the _The Bostonians._ It's American, but in a European style, late 19th century. War and Peace: I get a lot out of reading about the battles first on Wikipedia prior to getting into them in the novel. The battle scenes are really well done. It's long, but it's not difficult at all to read.
Jane Eyre is my favorite book too, and I agree the adaptations haven't been the best. I do enjoy 2 of them of different reasons (1) The black and white version with Orson Wells, I think he does a good job of portraying Mr. Rochester (to a certain degree) (2) The 2006 BBC Mini Series starring Ruth Wilson and Tobey Stephens I think is great, It shows more of the subtle humor that's in the books and it's 4 hours long, so we get quite a bit of the story.
Yeah, I agree there ones that are definitely better than others. I think the Orson Wells one probably is the best we've gotten to date. I'm not sure I've seen the 2006 mini-series... I'll have to hunt that down!
Your cloth bound classics are beautiful. It does make me a little sad you don't like My Antonia. I do understand about not liking a particular time period or theme in your classics though, because I do not like Civil War or WWII stuff in general.
Thank you! I really enjoy them. Yeah, different strokes for different folks - I take comfort in the fact that even books I don't personally like have an audience somewhere, so I don't have to feel bad about not liking them :)
Have you ever seen the movie Bride and Prejudice? I really liked it a lot but I love musicals! LOL Also Tom Jones is a really funny classic. A good American classic to my opinion is The World according to Garp. I read it during University in a 20th century fiction class. Another good one is A Prayer for Owen Meaney.
Grapes of Wrath was a favorite of mine when I was younger, but it is not a happy book (to put it mildly). Grapes of Wrath joke: Why did the turtle cross the road? Because Steinbeck was being paid by the word.
In the rightmost side, third from top shelf, which are the red books with the black titles, if you don't mind sharing? Great video...for me too, David Copperfield is one of the few still unread Dickens. I so wish to own a ton of the penguin clothbound classics...! Count of Monte Cristo looks great!!!
Ahh if you re-read War and Peace I’d follow along... that is one that has been unread on my shelf for much too long! And I’d love a favourite classics video:) Currently, I’m reading Middlemarch (I adored the first half, but I am struggling with the last 200 pages or so).
I completely agree with you on the Hobbit movie. I loved the Hobbit as a child because it was so funny and full of aventures... and just 1 esther short book si easy to reread lol However the movie took away all of the lightness and tried to remake LOR. And failed...
To answer some of your points: 1) The Old Man and the Sea. I read this as a young teen,and it did nothing for me. It might have helped if (living in the UK) I'd heard of Joe DiMaggio. 4) The Great Gatsby. Really should have read it by now;but I will do so before the year is out! 5) I really ought to get some Thomas Hardy under my belt. 7) The 39 Steps directed by Alfred Hitchcock. 8) The 39 Steps directed by anyone else. 10) Thornton Wilder's 'Bridge of San Luis Rey.' A lovely,moving, little book;but people seem to have forgotten it exists.
LOVE this tag ^^ yeees Beauty and the Beast 💗aaah I need to read Great Expectations and Northanger Abbey! I also need to read something by Anne Bronte! omg a Pride and Prejudice fantasy retelling?! I need it! loved this video =)
Brideshead Revisited is brilliant. And both adaptations (original 1980s BBC and recent one with Mathew Goode (sigh) ) are excellent as well. Same here with The Haunting of Hill House. Only managed one episode. Not really for me.
great video, i think my favourite fairytale is probably Snow White and Rose Red,,, and I completely agree about the hobbit films, which is a shame because i think Martin Freeman was a really good choice for Bilbo.
I've read a little of James - pretty so so for me (I prefer Wharton from that era), but I've not read Portrait of a Lady, so I'm withholding judgment until I read that one
Henry James is tedious for me although he did write one book that was really great. I highly recommend "Daisy Miller" by Henry James but nothing else. I actually own a beautiful first edition of "Daisy Miller".
Love this! I have cranford and woman in white on my 2019 tbr. I loved Moonstone. I agree LOTR all time favorite movie and wasn’t so happy with the hobbit series and you did good job explaining it. I did really love most recent Les Miserable movie though. Thank you for this review!
Hi! Loved your video!💕 Have you read Middlemarch? Or Daniel Deronda both by George Eliot. I loved Anna Karenina so for 2020 I will try to read War and Peace maybe during the summer.
broke my heart a little to hear you say you did not like The Haunting of Hill House show but I understand where you're coming from. I would definitely rewatch it and not think about the source material and try to just enjoy it as a show because I think it is one of the best filmed and best acted tv shows of the last few years, there's some really cool things in it and the way they tell the story is amazing.
I love David Suchet's Poirot. I do feel like he comes to live directly from the pages and find that I cannot reread the novels without picturing Suchet. However... I HATED his adaptation of the Orient Express. Cannot understand the sudden religiosity of the character and the beginning was unecessary. The 1970s adaptation however, was lush! Didn't see the last one, but don't understand why Pilar Estravados who was, I think, from Poirot's Christmas would be on the train... diversity p.c., maybe?
Yeah, they made a number of rather baffling changes to the story that didn't seem to add much from where I stand (like give Poirot a tortured backstory of tragic love? why???)
@@bookslikewhoa I have no idea! Just remember feeling really disapointed because as I liked the 1970s one so much I thought I would love this one... I didn't!
God, I couldn't deal with The Grapes of Wrath either. I think it's because I don't have great ease reading dialectal dialogue and everyone in GOW speaks that way, and every second chapter deviated from the main story and I didn't care for those deviating chapters at all.
Definitely same- I just could not get into the narrative flow of the book. The descriptive passages, while I guess technically beautiful, didn't connect for me, so those parts just dragged
i'm really bad with american classics from before the 20th century...i think Edgar Allen Poe is the only one that comes to mind, i always enjoyed his short/novella length mysteries
you made me want to attempt War and Peace again. I picked it up, put it down several times. I can’t call myself a Tolstoy lover without reading War and Peace.
I really enjoyed this video and would love to see one on your favorite classics! I only started reading classics about a year and a half ago and booktube really enhances the experience. I would like to get to David Copperfield as well, partially because there is an audio version read by Richard Armitage... but for now I am making my way through my first Dickens - Bleak House. You pushed me to try some Willkie Collins, but I'm still not convinced about War and Peace since I disliked Anna Karenina so much.
Ooo Bleak House- I remember really liking that one! I read so much Dickens as a kid, and I really need to give myself the treat of doing more rereads of him
aww the ranting about Kenneth Branagh's Poirot film was the first video by you I ever saw and I think one of the first things I commented! I'm getting nostalgic here (at least something good did come out of that... thing) IMO the 2005 Pride and Prejudice was one of the worst adaptations I've ever seen (for such an iconic piece of literature) and really did not capture the fundamentals of it? Like, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, imo, despite the ZOMBIES and DEATH, was much more faithful to the original, and a nice homage to it-- while the 2005 one seems the dumbed-down Hollywood version of Pride of Prejudice with far less nuanced characters and more useless additions (like, running under the rain-- what was THAT about?) Re: Jane Eyre, I did like the Franco Zeffirelli adaptation of Jane Eyre, but that must be because I LOVE the old-fashioned costumed movies (think along the lines of The Leopard by Luchino Visconti with Burt Lancaster, or James Ivory productions like Maurice and A Room With a View). (Speaking of Russian classics, The Brothers Karamazov does deserve its reputation, though I love Ivan Fyodorovich) If you ever bump into them, do try some Italian classic, I think there's something you could enjoy, especially from the first half 1900s!
Haha, yes, I'm glad that terrible movie at least brought us together!! See, for me, 2005 P&P had a clear lens for interpretation so I was fine with it-- basically, let's make a version of P&P with ALL THE ANGST we can wring from the story that gave us the modern romantic comedy template- basically, how can we make a romcom into a romdrama (that rain scene was pure melodrama and I kind of appreciated it for how over the top it was-). I liked P&P& Zombies, too, since I felt like I clearly saw what it was doing & it was so different than the original genre-wise that it worked. Usually, though, I'm pretty open to whatever they want to leave out/add. I really only get annoyed if it's an adaptation that picks a weird genre that doesn't work (a la The Hobbit) or makes seemingly arbitrary changes that make the story worse (a la 2017 Murder on the Orient Express). That said, the BBC version is vastly superior-- I don't think I've ever met someone who preferred the feature length one to that mini-series. Well, maybe Kiera Knightly, I'm not sure ;) And yes, I want to get to more non-English language classics in the next few years! I am still rounding out my repertoire in the Russian & French ones I have in my collection, but would definitely be down for some Italian ones. I mean, Dante is an all-time fav
Greetings Mara, I recently ordered a few of the Penguin clothbound classics, and I am worried about the reviews for them. I wanted to ask you whether the print on the cover wears off or not, and if it has the tendency to do so, do you use any preventive measures? Anxiously waiting for your reply, Malvika.
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Have you read Steinbeck's "Pearl".. I really loved it
bookslikewhoa maybe I’ll post a video about it! I have a portuguese channel, but with english subtitles! So if you’re curious about our literature, I have a lot to tell you ;)
I like the Ang Lee adaptation of Sense and Sensibility as well, but I am actually on the fence of loving the 2008 BBC mini series even more. Have you watched this one? I'd love to hear, what you thought about it, if you did. If not, I'd recommend it highly! :)
I just have one question 🤔 how are you so rich!? 😂 How do you have all the clothbound books!?!?😍😍😍😍 BTW love your bookshelf, & more' than that I love you Mara🤗
Let's not blame Peter Jackson for the Hobbit too much... he came into the movie late and his job was basically to try and make some sense of the mess the production had turned into.
Fair, though from what we know of production, once del Toro was gone, it seems that things went hard in the tonal direction of LOTR. It's very true to say that it's not clear how much of that was Jackson vs. the studios pushing him to do that. All that to say, I do think it's fair to use Jackson's name almost as the "royal we" of referring to the decision makers who wrought those movies upon us :)... for good or ill, he was director/exec producer credited so part of the gig is that he's gotta take the praise & the criticism! :) I really like Lindsey Ellis' videos on it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uTRUQ-RKfUs.html
It became a classic because it starts right out by suggesting that "the classics" need to be reconsidered more critically. "All that David Copperfield kind of crap" was a call to arms.
Yes! I also didn't enjoy My Antonia. I wrote an essay on it for my course called American Modernism. Ugh, Cather. That book was so fucking creepy because of the gender relations in the novel. I just bought the Count of Monte Cristo unabridged. I work at a bookstore and we had it 😀😀
