2015/06/28

The Classics Book Tag

I found this tag a while ago, and I thought it looked really interesting! I really enjoy classics, so it's the perfect tag.

The original tag can be found over at the wonderful blog It's A Books World.


1. An overhyped classic you didn't like:
I know this is blasphemy to a lot of people, but Little Women by Louisa Mary Alcott didn't sit well with me. I had very high expectations of this though, since everyone seems to love it, so that had a part in it. I also didn't like The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway, I did not get that one at all.

2. Favourite time period to read about:
Well, I find myself drawn to any story set between from the middle to late 1800s to around 1940, 1950.


3. Favourite fairytale?
When I was a child, my favourite was Rumpelstiltskin, which I've realized as I've gotten older is a really weird one. I also very much enjoyed Thumbelina and Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves

4. Most embarrassing unread classic:
I don't think one should every really be embarrassed that one hasn't read a certain book, but I probably should have read some Dickens, so I'm reading Oliver Twist now.

5. Top 5 classics you would like to read soon:


6. Favourite modern book/series based on a classic:
The only books I can think of are the Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer. They're pretty great!

7. Favourite movie version/tv-series based on a classic:
I love the BBC modern adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, and I very much enjoy both seeing Poirot and Miss Marple on TV. And I very much enjoy the 2005 version of Pride and Prejudice.

8. Worst classic to movie adaptation:
I can't remember ever seeing an adaptation that I hated.


9. Favourite edition(s) you'd like to collect more classics from:
I'd love to collect more Persephone Books, Penguin English Library, Modern Penguin Classics and VMC Classics. I've also been eyeing Everyman's Library Pocket Classics for a good while...

10. An underhyped classic you would recommend to everyone:
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham and Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.


Feel free to do this yourself! If you have any classics to recommend, shoot them my way.

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