People get attached to books from thier childhood. And they don't want to hear that people didn't like the series when in the targeted demographic.

like what you like. I thought the writing was really bad when I was in the target demographic. What I am saying is maybe branch out a bit. Maybe Pendragon truly is the peak of literature but I highly doubt it.

I will just say that if this is your favourite series you need to read more.

I read it when I was 11 and I thought it was kind of bad.

Love Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. Haven't read anything by Anne yet.

Rothfuss only has three books the name of the wind it's sequel and a prequel.

We Hunt the Flame. But I am not recommending it. I have taken a break from it and am very close to DNF

I am yet to read it. But Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are two of my favourites. So I do need to get around to it.

Anne was dead which is why Charlotte had control over the rights. and it's not that charlotte fought against the book for fifty years as she died a few years after Anne but just that the book was essentially lost because of her.

Yes that is what I meant. She hated the book and made sure it wouldn't be republished until about 40 years after her death.

She buried the tennants of wildfell hall because she hated the book leading it to become the least well know of the Brontë Sisters works

I'd say it's the opposite if there isn't a tacked on romance it can't be young adult.

I always felt that it was more then a moral code pushing her away. I know she says that she forgave Rochester immediately and that she loves him but she also acknowledges how he talks about his former lovers with disdain and feels like that could be her. She couldn't be with Rochester because of how dependent she was on him and how controlling he wanted to be. Which is why he needed basically devine intervention to help him change his ways.

My professor said something similar but I disagreed. I thought it really holds the novel together. St. John is a controlling and abusive dick kind of like how Mr. Rochester was in the previous volume but he absolutely is not willing to give Jane any credit. At least Rochester somewhat respected Jane. So he makes Rochester look better in hindsight because of how controlling he is but he cannot be criticised because he is a good Christian right? I disagree he goes off and dies in India while everyone else live rich and fulfilling lives.

Look at how Rochester changes completely after his 'fall'. Rochester is capable of both respecting Jane and changing to not being controlling while St. John can only see one way. He is similar to Rochester but in the end he is a foil that redeems Rochester by being so terrible.

I have been looking for a book through second hand bookstores across the world. Yes I could buy it of Amazon, I would take it from the library if they had it but I really want to find this particular book in a second hand bookstore, I have come close I found traces of it but no luck yet.

Record stores are booming.

He also revised Oliver twist to cut out discribing faigin as the jew

Definitely Candide by Voltaire, Raseleas isn't too bad.

It's redeeming feature is that it is only an hour and 45 minutes. Couldn't stand it. TBF I am not a big fan of those noir films anyway. I much prefer movies like the long goodbye that almost parody the genre and end up being great. I haven't watched murder my dear but I hate that they changed the name from farewell my lovely which is clearly the superior name.

Scrap the goal of 50. It is irrelevant how many books you read. Just read one book in full and the another and another. Just keep looking for what interests you.

The Maltese Falcon was a really really bad movie. But the long goodbye is probably the best noir detective movie ever made. I have really wanted to read it ever since I saw the film but haven't gotten around to it yet.

Most of them are pretty readable imo. Some more than others. Everything Robert Louis Stevenson is pretty good. Jane Eyre is fantastic.

I never said biggest.

You Should read Annals of the western Shore by Le Guin. The people with powers are a bunch of incestuous mountain clans who only fight each other and don't leave their mountains. It is an awesome series.

It's important to remember that these relationships were different to what we perceive same sex relationships today. To call ancient Greeks gay or homosexuals would be an anachronistic fallacy.