Bookworms, what are your favorite fun classic novels?

Lovely presentation of many good books that I have read as a younger man.

I've read Dr. Jeckel, Treasure Island, Huckleberry Finn, Hound of the Baskervilles, Diary of Anne Frank, and A Christmas Carol!

One of my favourites that really doesn't get as much love as it ought to is Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda. I also enjoy Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Good Wives, anything by Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. More modern classics would include To Kill A Mocking Bird, Stephen King's The Stand and anything by Daphne du Maurier.

Definitely some great recommendations 😀👍

I just put the hound of the Baskervilles on my TBR 😉. Been trying to read some classics.

@thebookworm6554

5 ай бұрын

Hope I contributed well to your list :)

A decent list, the Wodehouse books are loads of fun if you like that sort of thing. I’ll have to check out Three Men in a Boat it escaped my radar somehow. I’m reminded of the first classics that I read as a boy, particularly memorable were The Call of the Wild, Robinson Crusoe, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Metamorphosis, Of Mice and Men, and Animal Farm. I re-read these within the past few years some 40+ years later and they all were as good or better than I remembered.

I’m a Christie girl too but I enjoyed some of Holmes’ stories. I definitely plan to check out some of the Jeeves books!

I'm glad I 've read them all and saw the ones made the silver screen and this was before I had a short attention span due to smart phones too.

Haunting of Hill House was in my 2023 favourites video 😊❤

I absolutely love your classic mystery recs! Do you like Wilkie Collins?

@thebookworm6554

2 ай бұрын

Thanks! I only read The Woman in White by Collins, but I have The Moonstone at home and it's on my TBR list.

Just Subscribed, do you read comments and what is favourite book of all time. Thank you

The most important thing is, that no one reads the abridged version of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde...

@smileytpb

4 ай бұрын

kerfuffle :D

@thebookworm6554

4 ай бұрын

Does it contain more than 3 words?

I think I studied "Treasure Island" in school, too! Are we from the same country? 😄

@ameerahalgohary

5 ай бұрын

Looking forward to reading 1984, Animal Farm & Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde this year .. I put them in my TBR when I was planning my reading year

@DarianTrinity

Ай бұрын

According to her channel bio, she's from Germany

Jerome K Jerome was a fantastic humorist, very funny but he could also be profound in some of his short stories. I think he's under-rated as a series commentator because of his amusing reputation.

This is the first video on your channel that I have watched, but I already want to write a comment in support! Greetings from Ukraine, thank you for the interesting book review! Of course, I would like to offer Ukrainian classic books that are almost unknown in Europe. Example. "Clouds" by Ivan Nechuy-Levytskyi. This book was written in 1874, but it describes the issues that arise now, during the war against terrorist Russia. Even the words used by the book's characters one-to-one correspond to what Russian propagandists are saying now! Next, I would like to suggest books by Ivan Bagryany, namely: "Tiger hunters", "Garden of Gethsemane", "Man runs over the abyss" There - the truth about the 30s - 40s and 50s of the 20th century. From modern Ukrainian authors attention should be paid to the work of Serhiy Zhadan, for example, the book "Internet" and Oksana Zabuzhko, in particular. her essay "The Longest Journey", "Ukrainian Palimpsest" and others.

@thebookworm6554

9 күн бұрын

Thanks for the supporting comment and the recommendations!

I've read nine of them but I'd not even heard of the Jerome K Jerome entry,😮 Three Men and a Dog.

@thebookworm6554

4 ай бұрын

Oh, it's HILARIOUS!!!

I love the great Charles Dickens! I have read almost all of the books on this list and can recommend them highly. Why not add Dracula to the list?

@thebookworm6554

Ай бұрын

I don't find it on the same "easiness" level as the other...

3:04. Takes place in Missouri, not Mississippi.

Eeh!

i love this list so much and agree with them all! i love your accent and your hair too 😁 i would recommend anne of green gables and white nights for beginners. those are some i started with 🩷