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@emilieeast8788 7 лет назад

I read The Picture of Dorian Gray this year and absolutely adored it. The ending gave me chills.

@ellabooray 7 лет назад

I really like combining Loves, leaves and TBR like you have!

@BookCravings 7 лет назад

OMG North and South is so good! It became a favorite (N&S and Jane Eyre are on the top of my list) and I'm currently reading N&S for the second time. I'm so happy you are reading it!! ❤❤❤ BTW, for a long time I admired the Little Man copy by Everyman's Library that appears in your intro and guess what. After unsuccessfully searching for it in many websites, I finally found it on a second hand book shop in London 🙏❤❤ So happy!

@mountaineer452008 7 лет назад

I enjoyed Middlemarch and Wuthering Heights. You might like the Pallisers by Anthony Trollope, although there are six volumes, I enjoyed them immensely.

@t.j.forest6657 7 лет назад

I read Middlemarch last summer, and it sky-rocketed into an all-time favorite for me. I really think you would really like it! Also, funnily enough, the first time I read Dorian Gray, I had never heard of it; so that was a real treat for me. I keep meaning to read more Victorian lit. It's just...like you said with Dickens, I feel like I need to be in the right head space. Right now, I have Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens and Wives & Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell.

@visorah9299 7 лет назад

great video, i like victorian literature a lot, especially the gothy kind :D i have the same beast of an edition of vanity fair (actually because of you haha) and i really enjoyed it for the most part. the tedious parts are worth it for the good ones, and the way becky is portrayed has an interesting ambiguity to it. what i couldn't get through though is north and south, sadly. i found it to be unbearably sentimental and i didn't like margaret one bit. with the way she was written she is mary sue material to me, and every character and situation felt like a mere stage constructed to make her shine even more. but it's good to hear you're enjoying it! since so many people do, i wonder, did i miss the point? is she supposed to come off this way and changes later?

@muskndusk 7 лет назад

visorah: Try Gaskell's Mary Barton, I preferred this to North and South.

@RachelRamirezCaroline 7 лет назад

I know you didn't mention Bram Stocker or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and I'd highly suggest you read them. Their stories have inspired other authors and I've liked the stories I've read.

@literarydevery2333 7 лет назад

Oh, fun vid! I'm a huge Dickens fan myself, but I totally get what you mean about having to begin in the right mindset. Out of curiosity, have you read Nicholas Nickleby? Definitely one of his more comic, less-depressing books, and I have a particular soft spot for it.

@duckpondwithoutducks 7 лет назад

Victorian literature was my favourite genre as a teenager, my first major book love!

@sararoberts3250 6 лет назад

Wondering your thoughts of Wuthering Heights now? All my teachers growing up thought I would love it. I never got very far. I read it in January and could not stand it (but finished.) I do want to give it another go again. would lvoe to know your thoughs.

@katerynanunley2219 7 лет назад

Can you please do an updated video about penguin collections? 😀

@muskndusk 7 лет назад

Oliver Twist is surprisingly funny. It made me laugh out loud in parts. It's worth revisiting. Nicholas Nickleby is great for immersing yourself into and wishing that you hadn't come to the end. David Copperfield was another I just couldn't put down. I'm a great fan of Dickens and find him easy to read. The only novel, so far, I've given up part way through, was Dombey and Son, which is truly boring.

@randomstuffwithvicky 7 лет назад

muskndusk I had to read dombey and son for a course. I hated the first half but couldn't give up due to needing it for university - I ended up really really liking it. I now find dickens quite easy to read but it took reading a few books for me to sort of attune to his style

@muskndusk 7 лет назад

Life With Mrs D: perhaps if I'd needed to read it for study I may have appreciated it enough to finish.

@sandral9401 7 лет назад

I have exactly the same experience with Dickens. I loved The Woman in White and The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins and George Elliot's Middlemarch is incredible! I highly recommend. I'm surprised you didn't mention anything by Conan Doyle. He's the first author I think of when I think of Victorian times.

@MitziSwisher 7 лет назад

Have you read Villette? It's my favorite Bronte novel, in my Goodreads review I called it "next level" lol ... I hated Wuthering Heights, liked Jane Eyre, LOVED Villette.

@Tinahgirl83 7 лет назад

I adore Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and The Woman in White. I also have Middlemarch on my TBR. Your edition of Vanity Fair is beautiful! I didn't like it, but I know lots of people do. Curious. Have you read The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield?

@oh_hellojenny 7 лет назад

I did not enjoy Tess of the D'Ubervilles at all - I'd like to go back and read it again since I read it still in high school and I've had a lot more "life experience" but I don't think I can! I enjoyed your explanation of the time periods ☺️

@RachelRamirezCaroline 7 лет назад

The Creative Auditor Reads I'm glad I wasn't the only one who disliked this book. I just can't pep myself up to read it again.

@alexandrafisher5404 7 лет назад

You need to read Silas Marner by George Elliot!!! It's one of my favorites!! Highly recommend ☺️

@sterlingreads547 7 лет назад

I have tried & tried to like Dickens but I'm just not a fan. I am interested in books about his life though. Not a fan of the 3 Bronte sisters either. I did love North & South. reminded me of Pride & Prejudice. I find myself loving modern classics like A tree grows in Brooklyn & The grapes of wrath. I need to read more Victorian novels.

@Petra888 7 лет назад

43 years old now... Still don't like Wuthering Heights. It took me a while to accept it, but there it is. No more Wuthering Heights for me.

@frankydclc 7 лет назад

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins is one of my favorites. It's a fantastic mystery told by some of the most eccentric POV characters I've encountered from the period.

@carolefreeman2544 5 лет назад

Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Alan Poe and Arthur Connor Doyle, are just a few of my favourite Victorian authors

@bighardbooks770 6 лет назад

You're scaring me, lol! Im planning to read Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre for the first time (you're kind of setting me off of them a wee-bit!) and Dorian Gray and Tess for the second time, in decades. Also going to watch some film adaptations and O! Also reading Villette

@Starrysong 7 лет назад

I started reading Cranford, but I have so many books on my Kindle that I haven't gotten back to it. I have started a book by three different authors including Charles Dickens called A House to Let, which is about an abandoned house. I need to get back to it because it was highly engaging. I have started Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte many times, but I only got a few chapters into them. Maybe I'll give them another try.

@mohammadhajkhalil1981 4 года назад

In my opinion Kroog's "spontaneous combustion" in "Bleak House" is brilliant metaphore for someone consumed by the law suit, this is emphasized in later chapter in conversation between gumpy ad weevle (i dont remember the names) that might lead Richard to similar destiny.

@geoffharper3895 7 лет назад

Read Bleak House at school and thoroughly enjoyed it, and the same with Wuthering Heights. Both are great novels, perhaps to be read after a person's teenage period when they are safely past YA (I am an oldy, never heard this term until I started watching booktube videos)

@ryuray1677 7 лет назад

What about Edgar Alan poe?! He's one of my favorite authors when comes to horror/ghost stories! Also I'd recommend Little women by Louisa May Alcot :)

@newtocamelot 7 лет назад

Great video. You're definitely my favorite booktuber. :) Our tastes are quite similar. I'm curious to hear what you think of Wuthering Heights when you read it again. I read Jane Eyre first and loved it, but then Wuthering Heights was just something else. It's become my favorite book of all time. I guess I had never read anything like it before and was surprised by it - it's the love story of two wicked souls, and the long revenge that follows when they can't be together.

@randomstuffwithvicky 7 лет назад

I love Victorian literature. Have to say Jane Eyre is my favourite but I loved it as a child so it's hard to let that go, despite its problems. Loved north and south. Think you'd also like wives and daughters. I saw a recommendation for Mary Barton; that is more like Elizabeth Gaskell's usual tone but is not light hearted like these two. I finally got vanity fair last month after resisting it for years due to its size. Would love to know when you're reading it.

@mrsjcblog 7 лет назад

I haven't read much Victorian literature, but I have tried to read at least one classic every year for the last few years. Last year I read Great Expectations and struggled so much with it! I did persevere with it and was left pretty disappointed with the end!

@michaelhearn1676 2 года назад

You MUST read "Wuthering Heights." One of the greats!

@hvmoore221 7 лет назад

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories should have been on this list. Not only are they quintessential Victorian reading, but the serial short story was invented by Doyle. In my mind, Sherlock Holmes is the pinnacle of Victorian lit. That said, thank you for the video!

@DragonLandlord 6 лет назад

god, i hated Tess of the D'Arbervilles. i just could not get emerced in it and just couldn't accept Tess being as naive as she is.

@katesammons9252 7 лет назад

I can't wait to hear your thoughts on Vanity Fair! It's been years since I read it, and I HATED it. But, the older I get the more I want to read it again and see what I think. Good luck!

@bigd3996 7 лет назад

The Victorians weren't paid by chapter length/word count that is a myth.

@wellthatsjustduckie 7 лет назад

I don't know if you've read The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins but I love it and think it's fantastic. I want to get to The Woman in White soon.

@RachelRamirezCaroline 7 лет назад

wellthatsjustduckie Thank you for the book recommendation. I've wanted to read a new classic and after looking it up this one sounds very interesting.

@tbritz13 5 лет назад

The Woman In White and The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins are both excellent.

@msguinevere46 6 лет назад

Read The Warden by Trollope first, then Barchester Towers!

@belindagarza3958 7 лет назад

I didn't like Jane Eyre either or Mill on the Floss. I liked them but didn't.

@carolefreeman2544 5 лет назад

You should do a video on “Gothic Novels” they are my favourite novels.

@lifebyjo3999 7 лет назад

I have the same experience with Wuthering Heights.

@PopFizzPaperDani 7 лет назад

I couldn't get through Wuthering Heights back in school either, but I don't think I'll give it another go. I just recall it being totally boring, so much so that I can't remember much about it at all. Tale of Two Cities, however, I love and is one of my favorites. :D I appreciated this overview and will definitely check out some of your recommendations though, thank you!

@writerspen010 7 лет назад

I just have to take a pause and say, don't watch the Wuthering Heights adaptations. They're all bad for very different reasons, and most don't even cover the entire story =__= Hope you enjoy the novel this time around!

@heyheybooks 7 лет назад

Agreed! It's my favorite book and yet none of the movies are in my top favorite movies. I don't think I've watched any more than once except for the MTV version which was the first one I watched and got me into the book. :)

@SunriseFireberry 7 лет назад

Bleak House was a breeze. I thought it would be bleaker. There are some Gothic elements in it. You are right about Gt Expectat'ns. I pressed thru to the end. Miss Havisham, Estella & blah. 100pg of somewhat better at the end doesn't make up fore 550pg of mostly snore. I found Wonderland weird. Carroll himself I find off-putting, despite his connection with both Queen Victoria & fantasy author G. MacDonald. Reading Middlemarch first of all Eliot novels I don't recommend. Why? 1. Text density 2. plot in torpor during middle section of the book. 3. Archetype realist novels written during this time means periodic plodding thru pithy stuff (like Tolstoy's writing in War & Peace. Yeah. Like that.) One is better off trying Silas Marner or Daniel Deronda first ...certainly not Romola, it's tough.

@muskndusk 7 лет назад

TimeandChance: I went through a phase of reading nothing but George Eliot and absolutely loved her books. Silas is a good place to start.

@CuriosityRocks 7 лет назад

Really interesting video 😀

@TheCheweeRevolutions 6 лет назад

Bleak house is the jizz!

@rodoh22 7 лет назад

Wilkie Collins has two great novels. one being The Woman in white which is excellent, the other which is also exceptional is the Moonstone. for Trollope a good introduction would be The Warden, which in the Penguin Classic edition includes an very interesting essay at the end giving a nice context for the book. Thanks for a nice and fun video,

@RachelRamirezCaroline 7 лет назад

rodoh22 Thank you for the suggestion of a version of The Warden. I've been really interested in reading it and now have an idea of which version to buy or borrow from the library.

@BlatantlyBookish 7 лет назад

Yes to all of the victorian lit!! There are so many books that I love in this video including North and South, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Jane Eyre, etc. I hope you enjoy Middlemarch and Wuthering Heights (this time around). I re-read Wuthering Heights this past year and did a few videos on it. You can check them out post reading if you're interested. I personally didn't like Vanity Fair, but I hope you do! I'm also just discovering what an amazing writer Trollope is now! I've read The Warden and Barchester Towers, but I kind of wish I had started with a standalone book of his, perhaps The Way We Live Now? I'm also curious to hear if you've read anything by Anne Bronte. I think her works deserve to be talked about just as much as her sisters' novels.

@heyheybooks 7 лет назад

I was just waiting for Wuthering Heights to show up somewhere haha! It was difficult for me to get into as well, and I was familiar with the story from MTV's modernized version. I was so confused who was narrating and when in the storyline it was taking place, so I read about it on sparknotes or something to figure it out, and that got me started. Now I've read it 5 or 6 times and it's my top favorite book ever!

@Fortheloveofclassics 7 лет назад

Bleak House is on my TBR. The name does show it's going to be bleak. Never thought about that way. The Mill on the Floss is on my TBR as well 💔 I love Middlemarch!

@bookninja7715 7 лет назад

Oooh, I actually have several Dickens novels lying around, among them The Pickwick Papers, I've just never gotten around to any of them except for A Christmas Carol. Haven't really heard a lot about The Pickwick Papers, so it's nice to hear that you enjoyed it. I really hope you give Wuthering Heights another try though, it's one of my absolute faves.

@Jamhands9 7 лет назад

I realize now that I've read quite a bit more Victorian literature than I thought! I like North and South, but definitely more the BBC adaptation. I've watched that countless times :) Tess and Jane Eyre are probably my favorites that you mentioned. Jane Eyre is one of my top favorites, but not my favorite classic female heroine. The Ruth Wilson/Toby Stephans movie adaptation is my favorite. Vanity Fair is good! Much better than the Reese Witherspoon movie adaption as well.

@florivamselingardi1272 6 лет назад

Hi beautiful !

@simpleplanfan27 4 года назад

Great video!

@kunstlerleben_ 7 лет назад

Wow that's so weird! I just got a sudden desire to delve back into this era a couple weeks ago. Anything spanning from Georgian to Edwardian, really. I just read Turn of the Screw, have you read that one? PS: can we be friends ;_;

@BurntToastStars 7 лет назад

I read Vanity Fair in high school (not for a class, just for fun), and I loved it. It is one of my favorite books of all time. That being said, I never recommend this book to anyone because this book just isn't for everyone. It's a book I reread every couple years (planning on reeeading it next year) and I read a chapter or two a day while reading other books. I feel like the story sticks with me better and I don't get impatient to read another book. There was a Reece Witherspoon adaptation years ago and I was so angry with it!! I realized that you couldn't show every single plot line and subplot, but the movie followed Becky Sharp and then ended halfway through her storyline! It didn't make any sense! So don't watch that lol

@amamdathanks 7 лет назад

I guessed correctly on your least liked. I too had to read it (high school) and didn't enjoy or finish it. Purchased a pretty copy to give it another go. Also just purchased Middlemarch and The Picture of Dorian Gray is one of my all time favorites. So pretty much we're the same person.

@brontesaurusrex7235 7 лет назад

Wuthering Heights is my favorite Bronte book and my favorite book of what might be considered English literary canon. I hope you like it, but I also get that it's... well. Repugnant. I like Jane Eyre, but among other things I find it tonally inconsistent. If you haven't read any of Anne's books, I very much recommend The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

@bethreads3294 7 лет назад

I have no idea where to start with Victorian Lit..any suggestions?

@RachelRamirezCaroline 7 лет назад

Beth Brown I have liked Oscar Wilde stories as they are deep but can be quite delightful. He's the first Victorian author I've read besides Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Collections of poetry have also been great choices for me. honestly that was where I started.

@Analog0219 7 лет назад

Great video.....loved it! I remember reading Tess and I loved it even though it was so tragic. I read "The Warden" by Anthony Trollope few years back and I quite liked it. What I remember about his writing is that his sentences were long....sometimes one sentence ran for more than a page! I do plan to pick some of his other works.

@lovemyne22 7 лет назад

Which edition of North & South do you have? I'd like to find a nice hardback edition! Yours is lovely!

@ryuray1677 7 лет назад

She has the Penguin english library edition of North and South :)

@lovemyne22 7 лет назад

ryu ray Thank you very much!!

@carolinaguimaraesporto1335 7 лет назад

I'm from Brazil and I loved your channel! I'll keep seeing! Where did you live?

@mobandy64 7 лет назад

Can you do a video on Victorian lit published in America? That would be neat! :)

@CyriacusSorokin 7 лет назад

What a coincidence! I was watching yesterday your video review on Tess of the d'Urbervilles and here it is again today as a recommendation 😊😊

@justice2beauty 7 лет назад

Great video. Do you ever do group reads? Wuthering Heights and Middlemarch are both on my tbr but I'm intimidated by them both...

@Cookbooknook 7 лет назад

Great video for me it's Vanity Fair - it's just marvellous!

@stressedoutofexistence663 7 лет назад

Please give a chance and read George Gissing and maybe some H.G. Wells? And where's Dracula by Stoker? O.o

@literarydevery2333 7 лет назад

IAmBroke Oh, hopping in to ask if you have any suggestions on where to start with Gissing? I'm planning on reading him soon but wasn't sure what to go with.

@stressedoutofexistence663 7 лет назад

Heya, thanks for asking; the best place to start with Gissing, and the one I and many people have, is New Grub Street, his most famous work. It deals with writers and writing in general at the end of the 19th century and the strives that come (or may not come, depends!) with an author's life. If you like Thomas Hardy you will most certainly love Gissing. Do be prepared as both are quite gloomy in their themes.

@CoverToCover5 7 лет назад

Thank you so much for doing this video! Victorian literature isn't mentioned much, so it's nice to have some recommendations. Added a few of these to my TBR! :)

@scrapbooksandreads 7 лет назад

I prefer Wuthering Heights to Jane Eyre. I read both of them so far this year and plan on reading Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, to compare to the other two sisters, this year as well. Great video, showing the good, bad and tbr.

@muskndusk 7 лет назад

The Tenant is great to read after coming out of a bad relationship!

@ryuray1677 7 лет назад

ooooh I have recently bought the Tenant of Wildfell Hall. I don't know anything of it, was a blind purchase really. Your statement has got me all intrigued now, can't wait to read it!